Leprosy

(noun.) chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae.

校对:谢尔比

• But poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from what we most care for. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The royal Confessor was endowed by heaven with power to cleanse the ulcers of the body, but only God himself can cure the leprosy of the soul. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There is a stain in the fabric of the Temple, deep and foul as that left by the streaks of leprosy on the walls of the infected houses of old. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Green, were fiercest in the greater towns, where filthy and undrained streets afforded a constant haunt to leprosy and fever. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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