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.
那些有些人希望此项法规继续实施，奋力主张此法规对于防止性传播疾病蔓延的必要性，但被最高法庭驳回。
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，瓦拉还是一位年轻的助理教士，当时那就筹办了第一个葬礼——那时一个13岁小女孩的葬礼，女孩在月经来潮时却以为自己得了某种致命的性病，就这样结束了自己的生命。
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.
赴欧旅行一直都是了新兴富裕国家的一项传统，始作俑者是18世纪年轻的英国贵族们，他们到欧洲大陆学习语言，收集文物，还染上了性病。

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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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.
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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.