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rheumatica.
1. cold and wet,(blunder for) splenetic,choleric,hotand dry风湿的，（误用为）脾气坏的，性情暴躁的，干热的。
△2H.IV.2.4.61 (56):“You are both,i’(= in) goodtruth,as rheumatic as two dry toasts，” i.e. They can-not meet but they grate one another. 你们两个呀，说实在话，脾气都躁得像两片干面包。
rheumatic diseases; disorders characterized by a flowof watery “rheum”风湿病。
△Mid.2.1.105: “Thatrheumatic diseases do abound.”因此风湿病到处流行。
2.(blunder for) lunatic,i.e.delirious患风湿病的，（误用为）精神错乱的，（指）说胡话的。
△H.V.2.3.40 (38): “butthen he was rheumatic,and talked of the whore ofBabylon.”不过那时候他正犯风湿症(应为：精神病)，谈的是巴比伦的娼妓。
Rhodope of Memphis: renowned Greek courtesan sup-posed to have married the king of Memphis in Egypt,who built one of the most beautiful of the pyramid forher罗多璧，古希腊名妓，据说曾嫁给埃及的孟斐斯国王，该国王为她建造一座金字塔。
△1H.VI.1.6. 21:“A statelier pyr-amid to her I’ll rear / Than Rhodope’s of Memphis ev- |