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| 释义 | 〔leading〕the leading cause of high inflation.See Synonyms at chief 导致高通货膨胀率的主要原因 参见 chief〔trachoma〕A contagious disease of the conjunctiva and cornea, caused by the gram-negative bacteriumChlamydia trachomatis and characterized by inflammation, hypertrophy, and formation of granules of adenoid tissue. It is a major cause of blindness in Asia and Africa. 沙眼：一种结膜及角膜的传染性疾病，由革兰氏阴性病菌沙眼衣原体 引起，特征为发炎，肿胀及形成淋巴组织颗粒。在亚洲和非洲是失明的主要原因 〔prodigious〕No one would now say, as did a character in Fanny Burney'sEvelina (1778), "You are prodigiously kind!”But this utterance, exclamation point and all,illustrates two important points about intensives, linguistic elements,such asextremely or awfully, that provide force or emphasis.One point is that we press words that originally had other meanings into service as intensives.Prodigiously is an adverb formed on prodigious, which meant such things as "ominous, amazing, enormous,” going back to the Latinprōdigiōsus, "portentous, marvelous, unnatural.”Prodigiously, first recorded in 1595, meant "portentously, ominously,”and was later used to mean "wonderfully, astonishingly,”therefore making a perfect candidate for use as an intensive.The other point about intensives illustrated byprodigiously is that they go in and out of fashion. The character inEvelina used prodigiously in a way that was no doubt very stylish; no one would find it so today.Perhaps the main reason for such shifts in the use of these intensives is that once they have been used for a whilethey no longer intensify.现在没有人会象芬妮·伯尼的小说埃维莉娜 (1778年）中的人物那样说， “您真是太好了!”但这种说法，感叹号和全句，说明了关于加强语气的重要两点，如extremely 或 awfully 这样的语言要素， 具有加强语气或表示强调的作用。要点之一是我们把一些最初有其他意思的词当作了加强语气的词来使用。Prodigiously 是在意为“不祥的，惊人的，巨大的”的形容词 prodigious 基础上形成的副词， 可追溯到拉丁词prodigiosus， 意思是“不祥的，奇异的，不自然的。”Prodigiously 最早记录于1595年， 意为“预兆性地，不祥地，”后来意为“奇妙地，惊人地，”因此很适于用作强调词。Prodigiously 说明的关于强调词的另一个要点是这些词流行一时然后就过时了。 埃维莉娜 中的人物使用 prodigiously 的方式无疑是很时髦的； 但今天已没有人这样用了。或许这些强调词用法变换的主要原因是一旦这些词被使用了一段时间后，其加强语气或强调作用就不再明显了〔mycoplasma〕Any of numerous parasitic, pathogenic microorganisms of the genusMycoplasma that lack a true cell wall, are gram-negative, and need sterols such as cholesterol for growth. In human beings, one species is a primary cause of nonbacterial pneumonia. Also called pleuropneumonia-like organism 支原体属：支原体属 大量寄生的、致病的微生物，它们没有真正的细胞壁，呈格兰氏阴性并且生长时需要类固醇（比如胆固醇）。在人体中，有一种是无菌肺炎产生的主要原因 也作 pleuropneumonia-like organism〔ragweed〕Any of various weeds of the genusAmbrosia having small, greenish, unisexual flower heads and producing abundant pollen that is one of the chief causes of hay fever. 豚草：一种豚草 属的杂草，有绿色、单性花朵，能产大量花粉，是引起花粉热的主要原因之一 〔Oudh〕A historical region of north-central India. Dating from at least the 4th centurya.d. , it was ruled by the Moguls after the 16th century and annexed by Great Britain in 1856. The annexation was a major cause of the Indian Mutiny (1857-1858). 奥德：历史上印度中北部的一个地区。其历史至少可追溯到公元 4世纪，16世纪后为蒙兀儿人统治，1858年被英帝国吞并。英国的并吞是导致印度反英暴动的主要原因(1857-1858年） |
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