英语词汇epizootic的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

epizootic. Deriving from the Greek epi, “upon or among,” and zoo, “animal,” epizootic diseases include rabies and hoof- and-mouth disease. The Great Epizootic (the word can be ei- ther a noun or adjective) of 1872 claimed almost a quarter of America’s horses (some 4 million) and left the nation’s business without the power it needed to function for three months— most power at the time being horsepower. Scientists never iso- lated the virus that caused the epizootic, and it ended its ravages only when cold weather killed the mosquitoes that transmitted the deadly virus. By that time the financial losses suffered had helped bring on the Panic of 1873. To a nation wholly depend- ent on horsepower, the epizootic was indeed a tragedy. In cities across the country homes went without heat, fires blazed un- fought, garbage wasn’t collected, deliveries halted, public trans- portation ceased, stores closed, and unemployment soared. Racetracks closed their gates, and at least one great American thoroughbred, Pocohontas, fell to the disease. In several cities unemployed men were even harnessed to carts and trolleys in place of horses.

词汇	epizootic
词源	epizootic. Deriving from the Greek epi, “upon or among,” and zoo, “animal,” epizootic diseases include rabies and hoof- and-mouth disease. The Great Epizootic (the word can be ei- ther a noun or adjective) of 1872 claimed almost a quarter of America’s horses (some 4 million) and left the nation’s business without the power it needed to function for three months— most power at the time being horsepower. Scientists never iso- lated the virus that caused the epizootic, and it ended its ravages only when cold weather killed the mosquitoes that transmitted the deadly virus. By that time the financial losses suffered had helped bring on the Panic of 1873. To a nation wholly depend- ent on horsepower, the epizootic was indeed a tragedy. In cities across the country homes went without heat, fires blazed un- fought, garbage wasn’t collected, deliveries halted, public trans- portation ceased, stores closed, and unemployment soared. Racetracks closed their gates, and at least one great American thoroughbred, Pocohontas, fell to the disease. In several cities unemployed men were even harnessed to carts and trolleys in place of horses.
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