1800, literally "resembling typhus," from typhus + -oid. The noun is from 1861, a shortened form of typhoid fever (1845), so called because it originally was thought to be a variety of typhus. Typhoid Mary (1909) was Mary Mallon (d.1938), a typhoid carrier who worked as a cook and became notorious after it was learned she unwittingly had infected hundreds in U.S.
双语例句
1. Everyone who is going abroad will need to be immunised against typhoid.
准备出国者均需注射伤寒预防针.
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2. An outbreak of typhoid followed.
继而爆发了伤寒.
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3. Typhoid fever sneaks in when sanitation fails.
环境卫生搞不好,伤寒就会乘虚而入.
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4. A sudden attack of typhoid cut him off in the prime of his life.
伤寒突然发作,使他年纪轻轻就被夺去了生命.
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5. Painful typhoid injections are a thing of the past, thanks to the introduction of an oral vaccine.
