英语词汇quarantine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	quarantine
词源	quarantine. People have been quarantined in the United States for every disease from measles to the dread bubonic plague. Quarantine itself ultimately derives from the Italian quaranta, “forty,” in reference to the 40 days that travelers from other countries were isolated during the Middle Ages if they had come from a plague-stricken country.
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