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fever

/fee-ver/US // ˈfi vər //UK // (ˈfiːvə) //

高热,高热病,高热症,高烧

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, quickening of the pulse, and disturbance of various body functions.
    • : an abnormally high body temperature.
    • : the number of degrees of such a temperature above the normal.
    • : any of a group of diseases in which high temperature is a prominent symptom: scarlet fever.
    • : intense nervous excitement: The audience was in a fever of anticipation.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to affect with or as with fever: The excitement fevered him.

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Examples

  • When you get a fever, your heart rate tends to increase, even before you notice other symptoms, so it can act as an early warning system.

  • Yellow fever, a mosquito-borne hemorrhagic disease that is common in South America and sub-Saharan Africa, annually infects about 200,000 people and causes an estimated 30,000 deaths.

  • The two cats that died were among four that had developed severe symptoms, such as jaundice and high fever.

  • A high dose of the vaccine produced severe side effects such as fever in 9 percent of volunteers, but a lower dose produced a severe side effect in only 1 percent of people.

  • It can scan people coming into an area to see if they have a fever.

  • Besides, victory fever had spread like wildfire throughout the Allied armies.

  • The sets—which, really, were a feat of design and direction—appeared to be remnants of a Lewis Carroll fever dream.

  • Future lives, careers and attitudes were being determined in this lightly regulated fever.

  • Spirits in Stanleyville were high, and a local 19-year-old was emboldened by independence fever.

  • Take Too Many Cooks: a fever dream of a segment that aired at 4:00am earlier this week.

  • Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.

  • Père Bracasse was ill, suffering from rheumatism, bronchitis, fever and corns.

  • When Stanhope entered to him, he found his guest lying on a sofa, in a high state of fever, both from his wounds and agitation.

  • If the fever ends by crisis, the crisis is accompanied by a rapid and striking increase.

  • The spirillum of relapsing fever can be identified by the method for the malarial parasite in fresh blood.