喜樂美語
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    Pox is an old word for a disease that covers the skin with small, raised, sore spots — like chickenpox (a common childhood illness) or smallpox (a very dangerous disease that doctors have now wiped out with vaccines). In old-fashioned English, 'a pox on you!' was a way of cursing someone, wishing bad luck on them.

    痘（如水痘、天花）

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成Probably comes from pocks, the old plural of pock (a small spot or sore on the skin).

同家族的字

  • pockprobably the root word — a single skin spot; pox is likely its old plural form
  • pockmarka scar left by such a spot

原始詞典資料4 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。

poxnoun/pɑks/

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    A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks.

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    A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks.

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    A curse.

    • a pox on all their houses
    • A pox on him, he's a cat still.

poxverb/pɑks/

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    datedTo infect with the pox, or syphilis.

    • Jack had a moſt ſcandalous tongue, and perſuaded Peg that all mankind, beſides himſelf, were pox'd by that ſcarlet-faced whore, †Signiora Bubonia. “As for his brother Lord Peter, the tokens were evident on him, blotches, ſcabs, and the corona. […]”

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。