Scurvy

(noun.) a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

整理:蒂娜

• The crews were rotten with scurvy; there was little water and that bad, and putrid biscuit to eat. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• After four breakfasts and a gallon of champagne, to serve us such a scurvy trick. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They were blown hither and thither for two months, until sick and dying of scurvy, starvation, and thirst, they had been wrecked on a small islet. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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