epidemic
epidemic 英 [ˌepɪˈdemɪk] 美 [ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk]
adj. 流行的；传染性的 n. 传染病；流行病
名词复数:epidemics
- An epidemic is a disease that spreads rapidly among many people in a community at the same time. In the 1980s, the fast-spreading AIDS epidemic transformed life on our planet.
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- adj. 流行的；传染性的
- n. 传染病；流行病
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1. An epidemic broke out.
一种流行病突然开始流行。
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2. the outbreak of a flu epidemic
流感的爆发
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3. an epidemic of measles
麻疹的流行
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4. an epidemic of crime in the inner cities
内城区犯罪活动盛行
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5. Car theft is now reaching epidemic proportions.
汽车偷盗现已近泛滥成灾。
- epidemic (adj.) c. 1600, "common to or affecting a whole people," originally and usually, though not etymologically, in reference to diseases, from French épidémique, from épidemié "an epidemic disease," from Medieval Latin epidemia, from Greek epidemia "a stay in a place; prevalence of an epidemic disease" (especially the plague), from epi "among, upon" (see epi-) + demos "people, district" (see demotic).
- epidemic (n.) 1757, "an epidemic disease, a temporary prevalence of a disease throughout a community," from epidemic (adj.); earlier epideme (see epidemy). An Old English noun for this (persisting in Middle English) was man-cwealm.
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