pneumonia

noun
🔊/njuːˈməʊniə/
🔊/nuːˈməʊniə/
[uncountable]
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  1. a serious illness affecting one or both lungs that makes breathing difficult肺炎
    • She died from bronchial pneumonia.她死于支气管肺炎。
    Topics Illnessc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • severe
    • bronchial
    • double
    … of pneumonia
    • bout
    verb + pneumonia
    • have
    • suffer from
    • catch
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    Word Originearly 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek, from pneumōn ‘lung’.