| 释义 |
‖ tsetse|ˈtsɛtsɪ|
Also tzetse, tzetze, (erron. tse).
[Sechuana (i.e. Bechuana language) tsetse.]
1. A dipterous insect (Glossina morsitans, of the family Tabanidæ), abundant in parts of tropical and southern Africa; its bite is often fatal to horses and other domestic animals. Also applied to other species of Glossina. More fully tsetse-fly.
1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa II. 396 [Gordon Cumming's] horses were killed either by lions or horse sickness, and the fly called ‘tzetse’. All his oxen were killed by this insect. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 139/2 Four [horses] that are bitten with ‘tsetse’, and must die in a week or two. 1865― Last Jrnls. i. (1873) 15 The people..say there are no tsetse flies. 1889L. V. Sheldon S. Africa 94 The Tse fly stings their horses. [1895J. Brown Secwana Dict., Tsetse, a fly destructive to cattle.] 1898[see Trypanosoma]. 1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Aug. 368 Sleeping sickness is conveyed, at least in Uganda, by that species of tsetse fly we know as Glossina palpalis.
2. attrib. and Comb., as tsetse-bitten, tsetse-conveyed, tsetse-free, tsetse-infested, tsetse-poisoned adjs.; tsetse country, district, an area infested by the tsetse fly; tsetse-fly disease = nagana.
1906Rider Haggard Benita x. 138 Meyer..had already decreed the death of the tsetse-bitten cattle. 1917Nature 18 Oct. 127/2 The tsetse-conveyed sleeping sickness is being got well in hand.
1853D. Livingstone Jrnl. 23 May (1960) iv. 139 There is only one small strip of Tsetse country to hinder one going westward. 1877T. Baines Gold Regions S.E. Afr. 89 Persons travelling must seek for the latest information..when approaching the borders of a Tsetse country.
1851D. Livingstone Jrnl. 29 Aug. (1960) ii. 64 Several Englishmen have lost all their cattle horses & dogs by being led into a Tsetse district. 1895Tsetse fly disease [see nagana]. 1932C. Fuller Louis Trigardt's Trek ii. 28 They..were compelled to desist..on account of tsetse-fly disease among their cattle. 1948T. A. M. Nash Tsetse Flies in Brit. W. Afr. i. 7/1 Inside this huge area there are only three districts which are tsetse-free. 1977Times 22 Apr. 10/2 The ever-spreading erosion and desertification wreaked by over-stocking of domestic cattle in tsetse-free areas.
1948T. A. M. Nash Tsetse Flies in Brit. W. Afr. i. 13/1 Should..the river flow from tsetse-infested country northwards, it would be wiser not to plant up the banks. 1977Times 22 Apr. 10/4 Vast tsetse-infested tracts of Nigeria.
1906Rider Haggard Benita x. 138 The time was to come when she would swallow that hard, tsetse-poisoned flesh. |