| 词汇 | malaria |
| 词源 | malaria. Malaria derives from the Italian for “bad air.” The disease was long associated with Rome, where the marshes around the city were a breeding ground for the mosquitoes that spread malaria until they were drained in 1939. Malaria was also called the summer vapors, the fever, and Roman fever. In his short story “Daisy Miller” (1878), Henry James called it the “villainous miasma.” |
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