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measles

noun
🔊/ˈmiːzlz/
🔊/ˈmiːzlz/
 [uncountable]
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  1. a disease, especially of children, that causes a high temperature and small red spots that cover the whole body麻疹
    • All our children have had the measles.我们所有的孩子都出过麻疹。
    see also German measlesTopics Illnessc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + measles
    • have
    • catch
    • contract
    • …
    measles + noun
    • virus
    • immunization
    • vaccination
    • …
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    Word OriginMiddle English maseles, probably from Middle Dutch masel ‘pustule’ (compare with modern Dutch mazelen ‘measles’). The spelling change was due to association with Middle English mesel ‘leprous, leprosy’.