pox

改写自中古英语pockes,痘痕，麻子，来自pocke,痘痕，麻子，-es,表复数，词源同pock,pocket.后用于指梅毒。

pox

pox: [16] Pox originated as an alternation of pocks, the plural of pock [OE]. This originally denoted a ‘pustule’, and later the ‘scar left by such a pustule, pock-mark’. Pox used to be a common term for ‘syphilis’, but today it is mainly found in compounds such as chickenpox [18] (possibly a reference to the comparative mildness of the disease) and smallpox [16] (so called to distinguish it from the great pox, syphilis).
=> pock, pocket

pox (n.)

late 15c., spelling alteration of pockes, plural of pocke (see pock (n.)). Especially (after c. 1500) of syphilis.

1. A confluent small - pox had in all directions flowed over his face.

天花打四面八方汇合拢来,布满了他整个脸孔.

2. Your papa's got the small - pox, and you know it precious well.

你爸爸得的是天花, 你知道的比谁都清楚.

3. Girls are liable to other distempers besides the small - pox.

女孩子们除了出天花还会出旁的毛病的.

4. His face was scarred by small - pox.

他的脸上有天花疤痕.

5. She had chicken - pox and was covered in spots.

她得了水痘,出了一身丘疹.