English Dictionary

imperial disease

名詞

広義

A disease that arises from colonial exploration and causes significant harm to an empire, especially the British Empire. / (by extension) A failing to which an empire is prone.

日本語の意味

植民地探検によって発生し、特にイギリス帝国に深刻な損害をもたらす病状を表す。 / 拡大する帝国が持つ例外的な脆弱性や衰退傾向を示す比喩的な概念。

Many scholars claimed that Britain's colonial ventures had introduced an imperial disease that steadily eroded the empire's foundations.

多くの学者は、英国の植民地進出が帝国病をもたらし、それが着実に帝国の基盤を蝕んだと主張した。

意味（1）

A disease that arises from colonial exploration and causes significant harm to an empire, especially the British Empire.

He served with distinction in both the South African War and the Great War, and during the last eight years he was Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, whose concern is with “Imperial diseases,” as he called them, as well as the more domestic.

意味（2）

(by extension) A failing to which an empire is prone.

...in July 1807 we may discern the growth of a singular British imperial disease: Russophobia.

意味（3）

A communicable disease that is spread to indigenous people by conquering imperial forces.

Despite these and other strengths, however, the Iroquois became weakened throughout the seventeenth and into the early eighteenth centuries as they faced several ordeals: “first came massive depopulation from imperial diseases; next, a slide into economic dependence on trade with Europeans; then ensnarement in the imperial struggles of powerful French and English colonial neighbors; finally, direct incursions on Iroquois territory and sovereignty” (p. 2).

imperial diseases （ plural ）