a person suffering from leprosy 麻风病患者 a person that other people avoid because they have done something that these people do not approve of （因其所为而）被大家躲避的人；别人避之唯恐不及的人 His outspoken views have made him a social leper. 他直言不讳的观点使他成了社会上的麻风病人。
Word Originlate Middle English: probably from an attributive use of leper ‘leprosy’, from Old French lepre, via Latin from Greek lepra, feminine of lepros ‘scaly’, from lepos, lepis ‘scale’.