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Ague is an old word for a fever that makes you shake and feel very cold, then often very hot. In older English it often meant the kind of fever we would now call malaria — it comes in . You will almost never hear a doctor say this today; they will say fever, flu, or malaria. You will meet it in old stories, history, and writers like Shakespeare. Though actually, it is not “any fever”: the shaking-with-cold picture is the heart of it. The same Latin root also gave us acute (as in an acute illness), which is why the old French name was basically “sharp fever”.
瘧疾（舊稱；發冷發抖的熱病）
組成From Middle French (fièvre) aiguë “acute fever”, from Latin acūtus “sharp, acute” + febris “fever”. It is a doublet of acute — two English words that grew from the same Latin root.
同家族的字
- acutedoublet: both from Latin acūtus “sharp”; acute kept the “sharp / serious” meaning, ague kept the fever
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aguenoun/ˈeɪ.ɡju/
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obsoleteAn acute fever.
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medicinepathologysciencesAn intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
- He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.
- He shivered all the while, so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off. “I think you have got the ague,” said I. “I’m much of your opinion, boy,” said he. “It’s bad about here,” I told him. “You’ve been lying out on the meshes, and they’re dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.”
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The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.
- fever and ague
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A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
- November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart I ’scap’d with one cold fit of an ague
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obsoleteMalaria.
- Where I’m from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.
agueverb/ˈeɪ.ɡju/
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To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。