venereal disease

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Those who wanted to keep the law contended that the statute was needed as a protection against venereal disease, but the court rejected that argument.
那些有些人希望此項法規(guī)繼續(xù)實施，奮力主張此法規(guī)對于防止性傳播疾病蔓延的必要性，但被最高法庭駁回。
As a young curate nearly 20 years earlier, Mr Varah had conducted his first funeral—a 13-year-old girl, who had started menstruating and thought she had some dreadful venereal disease.
20年前，瓦拉還是一位年輕的助理教士，當時那就籌辦了第一個葬禮——那時一個13歲小女孩的葬禮，女孩在月經來潮時卻以為自己得了某種致命的性病，就這樣結束了自己的生命。
The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.
赴歐旅行一直都是了新興富裕國家的一項傳統(tǒng)，始作俑者是18世紀年輕的英國貴族們，他們到歐洲大陸學習語言，收集文物，還染上了性病。

They must have thought I had caught something more serious, like pneumonia or a venereal disease, and would remain in bed for a week or so.
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Venereal disease is used to refer to diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea that are passed on by sexual intercourse. The abbreviation is also used.