influenza

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. countable,uncountable
    — In early 1919 the Board also issued a film, Dr Wise on Influenza, in which a character called 'Brown' spreads the disease by enacting poor behaviours. This did address transport - by boarding a crowded omnibus, "Brown may be scattering germs throughout the carriage and giving influenza to a number of people".

词形变化

influenzas plural influenze plural

词源

Borrowed from Italian influenza (“influence”), from Latin influentia. Doublet of influence.
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