a serious disease that causes a high temperature and shivering (= shaking of the body) caused by the bite of some types of mosquito疟疾- An increasing number of malaria cases are reported each year.上报的疟疾病例数目逐年增多。
- Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.疟疾是由蚊子传播的。
Topics Illnessb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + malariamalaria + nounSee full entry Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Italian, from mal'aria, contracted form of mala aria ‘bad air’. The term originally denoted the unhealthy atmosphere caused by marshes, to which the disease was formerly attributed.