Quarantine



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.隔离检疫期, 隔离
• ［英］ n.隔离检疫期, 隔离 ( enforced isolation to prevent the spread of disease or pests)
• ［记］ quarant ( 四十) ＋ine, 原意指隔开40天

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: partly modification of French quarantaine, from Old French, from quarante forty, from Latin quadraginta, from quadra- (akin to quattuor four) + -ginta (akin to viginti twenty); partly modification of Italian quarantena quarantine of a ship, from quaranta forty, from Latin quadraginta — more at four, vigesimal
• Date: 1609
• 1. a period of 40 days
• 2.
  • a. a term during which a ship arriving in port and suspected of carrying contagious disease is held in isolation from the shore
  • b. a regulation placing a ship in quarantine
  • c. a place where a ship is detained during quarantine
• 3.
  • a. a restraint upon the activities or communication of persons or the transport of goods designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests
  • b. a place in which those under quarantine are kept
• 4. a state of enforced isolation

II. verb (-tined; -tining)

• Date: 1804
• transitive verb
  • 1. to detain in or exclude by quarantine
  • 2. to isolate from normal relations or communication <quarantine an aggressor>
• intransitive verb
  • to establish or declare a quarantine

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