| 释义 |
pleuro Chiefly Austral.
Colloquial abbreviation of pleuropneumonia. Also attrib.
1885R. C. Praed Austral. Life 244 Pleuro is very bad our way. I don't believe much in inoculation—do you? 1890Daily News 16 Oct. 2/7 Pleuro has broken out afresh in Cheshire on the farms..near Winsford. 1897‘R. Boldrewood’ My Run Home xx. 176 ‘Do you ever have any pleuro among your cattle?’ said I; ‘I heard something about it in England.’ 1902H. Lawson Children of Bush 244 Jack started coughing again, like an old cow with the pleuro. 1917A. B. Paterson Three Elephant Power 42 Providence sends the pleuro, and big strong beasts slink away by themselves. 1944W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 3) 40 One day..a pleuro bullock chased him. 1965Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Feb. 40/3 They used their weapons on the local pleuro bull which was the only large, live target they had a chance to assail. 1975Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 20 July 10/5 Today he looks back with pride at the successful eradication of the killer disease ‘pleuro’ which threatened the cattle industry in 1970. |