英语词汇black death的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Black Death; bubonic plague. The bubonic plague that started in Constantinople (now Istanbul) and devastated Europe from 1347–51, killing from one-quarter to three-quarters of the popu- lation, was called the Black Death because the bodies of plague victims rapidly turned black after death. Over 25 million died of the Black Death, far more than in the 1665 plague of London that Defoe described in his Journal of the Plague Year and Samuel Pepys in his Diary. Bubonic plague is carried by rat fleas that have become infected by biting diseased rats (and certain squir- rels on the West Coast of the U.S.). It is so named because the rod-shaped bacterium, Pasturella pestis, responsible for it causes swellings (buboes) of the glands in the groin or armpit.

词汇	black death
词源	Black Death; bubonic plague. The bubonic plague that started in Constantinople (now Istanbul) and devastated Europe from 1347–51, killing from one-quarter to three-quarters of the popu- lation, was called the Black Death because the bodies of plague victims rapidly turned black after death. Over 25 million died of the Black Death, far more than in the 1665 plague of London that Defoe described in his Journal of the Plague Year and Samuel Pepys in his Diary. Bubonic plague is carried by rat fleas that have become infected by biting diseased rats (and certain squir- rels on the West Coast of the U.S.). It is so named because the rod-shaped bacterium, Pasturella pestis, responsible for it causes swellings (buboes) of the glands in the groin or armpit.
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