记忆方法
将“leper”分解为两个部分：le和per。le可能让人联想到“leaky”（漏水的），per可能是“person”（人）的缩写。想象一个“漏水的”人，比喻地表示一个生有麻风病的人，因为麻风病（leprosy）曾经被称为“leper”。这种方法通过视觉联想帮助记忆单词的含义。
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词族 · leper
词形变化
中文词源
leper 麻风病患者
来自拉丁语lepra,麻风，词源同leaf.委婉语，因这种病症皮肤如同小叶片而得名。
英语词源
- leper
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leper: [13] Etymologically, a person suffering from leprosy has ‘scaly’ skin. The Greek word for ‘scale’ was lépos or lepís. From them was derived the adjective leprós ‘scaly’, whose feminine form léprā was used as a noun meaning ‘leprosy’. This passed via Latin lepra and Old French lepre into English as leper, where it still denoted ‘leprosy’. In the 14th century it came to be used for a ‘person suffering from leprosy’.
- leper (n.)
- "one afflicted with leprosy," late 14c., from Late Latin lepra, from Greek lepra "leprosy," from fem. of lepros (adj.) "scaly," from leops "a scale," related to lepein "to peel," from lopos "a peel," from PIE root *lep- "to peel, scale" (see leaf (n.)). Originally the word for the disease itself (mid-13c.); because of the -er ending it came to mean "person with leprosy," so leprosy was coined 16c. from adjective leprous.
权威例句
- 1. The newspaper article had branded her a social leper not fit to be seen in company.
- 报纸上的这篇文章给她冠以“社交毒药”之名，称人皆不宜与其为伍。
- 2. The building was said to be haunted by the ghost of a leper woman.
- 据说这幢大楼常有一个麻疯病女人的鬼魂出没.
- 3. The leper in our gospel had a different attitude.
- 在福音中的?疯病患持有不同的态度.
- 4. The building be haunted by the ghost of a leper woman.
- 据说这幢“大楼”常有一个麻疯病女人的鬼魂出没.
- 5. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.
- 他又是大能的勇士, 只是长了大麻疯.