murrain

/mur-in/US // ˈmɜr ɪn //UK // (ˈmʌrɪn) //

谋杀,谋杀案,谋杀罪,谋杀罪的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Veterinary Pathology. any of various diseases of cattle, as anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, and Texas fever.
- : Obsolete. a plague or pestilence.

We are told that a murrain appeared among the cattle, without any preliminary step.
It is said by Whewell, that the murrain is supposed to have fallen only on the animals which were in the open pasture.
Virgil in the third Georgic speaks of a murrain among cattle.
When ye saw me here, so strangely seated, where I have neither right nor interest, what a murrain!
A murrain of cattle followed, and the poor were dying of hunger and pestilence.