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单词 mountain fever
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mountain fevern.

Brit. /ˌmaʊntᵻn ˈfiːvə/, U.S. /ˈmaʊnt(ə)n ˌfivər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mountain n., fever n.1
Etymology: < mountain n. + fever n.1
1. A malarial or typhoid fever contracted in a mountain region.
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1849 O. W. Lipe Let. 15 Aug. in R. P. Bieber Southern Trails to Calif. in 1849 (1937) 346 There has been much sickness in our company; the disease is mountain fever.
1875 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 567 Whether similar conditions will be found to exist, explaining the origin of ‘mountain fever’..is not yet determined.
a1918 G. Stuart 40 Years on Frontier (1925) I. 51 A severe attack of mountain fever..laid me on my back in the wagon.
1990 ‘L. de Bernières’ War Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts xxxvi. 312 Many were already beginning to shake and sweat and shiver with tercianas, the mountain fever as inevitable as it is inexplicable.
2. U.S. Disorientation or confusion experienced in mountainous country, due either to inexperience or to altitude sickness. Cf. mountain sickness n. at mountain n. and adj. Compounds 2a.
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1956 R. Moody Home Ranch 82 ‘Are you sure we're going the right way?’ ‘Got the mountain fever a'ready?’ he laughed. ‘By dogies, I seen prairie men get so fuddled up in these here mountains they don't know straight up from Sunday.’
1970 P. Buchanan Murder of Crows 10 You're not used to being out here in the boondocks. You have what we ridge runners call mountain fever. The first symptom is hallucinating things like exploding crows.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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