freshers' flu

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A cold or similar illness contracted by new students at a university, caused by gathering people (and the diseases they carry) from a wide variety of places in a confined area, allowing the diseases to spread to those without immunity.

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词源

From fresher (“a new student”) and flu (“disease”), an abbreviation of influenza.

来源:wiktionary