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leper

/lep-er/US // ˈlɛp ər //UK // (ˈlɛpə) //

麻风病人,麻风病患者,麻风病人,麻风患者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who has leprosy.
    • : a person who has been rejected or ostracized for unacceptable behavior, opinions, character, or the like; anathema; outcast.

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Examples

  • After being forced to fly next to this leper, their disgust is palpable.

  • I read a little more than they did, so I could say, “Touch me not, leper!”

  • On the Mabolo road there is a Leper Hospital, and the ruins of a partly well-built jail which was never completed.

  • He may wash his hands in bichloride solution after anointing a leper, but it is scarcely necessary to do even that.

  • And, in fact, this poor Nabob was a leper, his millions from the East weighing on him like some terrible and mysterious disease.

  • Skeat postulates a mute vowel by deriving lazar or leper from Eleazer—He whom God assists.

  • Mlle. Crystal drew away her skirts from me as if I were a leper.