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单词 lazaretto
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Definition of lazaretto in English:

lazaretto

nounPlural lazarettos ˌlazəˈrɛtəʊˌlazəˈredō
historical
  • 1An isolation hospital for people with infectious diseases, especially leprosy or plague.

    〈主史〉隔离病院

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A public meeting was held in 1911 in which ‘the citizens of Johannesburg strongly condemn the conditions of the lazaretto [isolation hospital] and call upon the Government to take immediate steps to remedy the present state of affairs’.
    • Inside the towns, quarantine went into effect, with the sick isolated in prisonlike infirmaries called lazarettos.
    • In 1785 the reformer turned his attention to plague prevention, examining lazarettos in France, Italy and Turkey - and deliberately experiencing quarantine in Venice.
    • He later turned his attention to the problems of the lazarettos of the East.
    • I will farther, in the sequel, give the answers of some physicians abroad to a set of questions which I was led to propose to them, by considering that should a lazaretto be erected among us, and this country be ever visited with a scourge so dreadful as the plague, the opinions of eminent physicians experienced in this calamity might be of particular service.
    1. 1.1 A military or prison hospital.
      军队医院;监狱医院

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Italian, diminutive of lazzaro 'beggar', from medieval Latin lazarus (see lazar).

Definition of lazaretto in US English:

lazaretto

nounˌlazəˈredō
historical
  • 1An isolation hospital for people with infectious diseases, especially leprosy or plague.

    〈主史〉隔离病院

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Inside the towns, quarantine went into effect, with the sick isolated in prisonlike infirmaries called lazarettos.
    • A public meeting was held in 1911 in which ‘the citizens of Johannesburg strongly condemn the conditions of the lazaretto [isolation hospital] and call upon the Government to take immediate steps to remedy the present state of affairs’.
    • I will farther, in the sequel, give the answers of some physicians abroad to a set of questions which I was led to propose to them, by considering that should a lazaretto be erected among us, and this country be ever visited with a scourge so dreadful as the plague, the opinions of eminent physicians experienced in this calamity might be of particular service.
    • He later turned his attention to the problems of the lazarettos of the East.
    • In 1785 the reformer turned his attention to plague prevention, examining lazarettos in France, Italy and Turkey - and deliberately experiencing quarantine in Venice.
    1. 1.1 A building (or ship) used for quarantine.
      检疫站;检疫船
    2. 1.2 A military or prison hospital.
      军队医院;监狱医院

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Italian, diminutive of lazzaro ‘beggar’, from medieval Latin lazarus (see lazar).

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