c. 1600, from Late Latin rheumatismus, from Greek rheumatismos, from rheumatizein "suffer from the flux," from rheuma "a discharge from the body" (see rheum). "The meaning of a disease of the joints is first recorded in 1688, because rheumatism was thought to be caused by an excessive flow of rheum into a joint thereby stretching ligaments" [Barnhart].
中文解释
1. rheum =》 rheumatism: 因为最初认为风湿病就是由身体里的稀粘液引起的。2. rheum- 谐音“流嘛”。3. Pains in the joints were in former times thought to be caused by watery secretions within the body.5. because rheumatism was thought to be caused by an excessive flow of rheum into a joint thereby stretching ligaments.
实用例句
1. I was laid up in bed with acute rheumatism.
我染上了急性风湿，卧病在床。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.
关节炎和风湿病是会严重损害身体健康的主要疾病。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.
热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The damp weather plays the very devil with my rheumatism.
潮湿的天气加重了我的风湿病.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The cold he caught threw back his recovery from rheumatism.