leper

英['lepə] 美['lɛpɚ]

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复数: lepers;

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。

leper: 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.

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.

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.