Virulence

(noun.) extreme hostility; 'the virulence of the malicious old man'.

(noun.) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); 'the virulence of the plague'.

录入:米歇尔

• Towards the end of October it dwindled away, and was in some degree replaced by a typhus, of hardly less virulence. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• America had also received the taint; and, were it yellow fever or plague, the epidemic was gifted with a virulence before unfelt. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What wonder, that this year, when as we are told, its virulence is unexampled in Asia, that it should have occasioned double havoc in that city? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• On the contrary, the disease gained virulence, while starvation did its accustomed work. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Pasteur was racked with fears alternating w ith hopes, his anxiety growing more intense as the virulence of the inoculations increased. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Pasteur obtained in inoculations of graded virulence, which could be adm inistered hypodermically, a means of prophylaxis after bites. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

整理:李奥娜