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Influenza Flu Outbreak Di Shortening 5733.Flu 英 Fluː]美

正面 5733.flu
英 [fluː]美 [flu]

背面
释义:
n. 流感n. (Flu)人名;(法)弗吕
例句:
1. One of the office girls was down with the flu.一位女职员得了流感。

1. alt- + -ar (简化自拉丁语后缀:-are,).2. 该词可以说是受到alt-词根两个方面含义的影响,一是现今含义表示处于高处的祭坛,二是其最初来源含义(*al-)供养,由此在这里引申为献祭。altar 祭坛——alter改变 口诀:祭坛的位置发生了改变。
flu 流感缩写自influenza,流感。
fluflu: [19] Flu is short for influenza [18]. The first record of its use is in a letter of 1839 by the poet Robert Southey (who spelled it, as was commonly the practice in the 19th century, flue): ‘I have had a pretty fair share of the Flue’. Influenza means literally ‘influence’ in Italian, and was used metaphorically for the ‘outbreak of a particular disease’ (hence an influenza di febbre scarlattina was an ‘outbreak of scarlet fever’, a ‘scarlet fever epidemic’).The severe epidemic of the disease we now know as flu, which struck Italy in 1743 and spread from there throughout Europe, was called an influenza di catarro ‘catarrh epidemic’, or simply an influenza – and hence influenza became the English word for the disease.=> influence, influenzaflu (n.)1839, flue, shortening of influenza. Spelling flu attested from 1893. The abstraction of the middle syllable is an uncommon method of shortening words in English; Weekley compares tec for detective, scrip for subscription."

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