epidemic是什么意思_epidemic怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously;"an epidemic outbreak of influenza"

中英词源

epidemic 流行的

epi-, 在上，在中。-demo, 人民，词源同demotic, democracy.

epidemic: epidemic: [17] An epidemic is literally something that has an effect ‘among the people’. The word comes from French épidémique, a derivative of the noun épidémie, which goes back via late Latin epidēmia to Greek epidēmíā ‘disease prevalent among the people’. This was a noun use of epidémios, a compound adjective formed from the prefix epí- ‘among’ and demos ‘people’ (source of English democracy).
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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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词态变化

复数 epidemics;

权威造句

1. Drug experts say it could spell the end of the crack epidemic.: 禁毒专家说它可能会结束强效可卡因吸食泛滥的局面。

2. Health officials have successfully confined the epidemic to the Tabatinga area.: 卫生官员成功地将疫情控制在塔巴廷加地区。

3. The major impact of this epidemic worldwide is yet to come.: 这种传染病在世界范围内的重大影响还未完全显现。

4. The AIDS epidemic further stigmatised gays.: 艾滋病的流行让人们更加瞧不起男同性恋者。

5. Today, doctors are fearing a worldwide epidemic.: 现今，医生们担心会爆发世界性的流行病。

近反义词

widespread 分布(或散布)广的...

prevalent 流行的

plague 瘟疫

contagious 传染性的

infectious 传染的

catching 易传染的

outbreak 爆发

endemic 风土的

scourge 灾难

contagion 传染病

spate 泛滥

wave 波浪

rash 疹子

craze 狂热

pestilence 瘟疫

wide-ranging 广泛的

rampant 猖獗的

sweeping 扫除

rife 非常多的

相似短语

epidemic curves 流行曲线

epidemic pleurisy 流行性胸膜炎

epidemic roseola 风疹

epidemic typhus 船热，流行性斑疹伤寒

legal epidemic 法定流行病

prevent epidemic 阻止疫情

epidemic hysertia phr. 群众性的歇斯底里症

epidemic insanity 【医】流行性精神病

epidemic stomatitis 【医】流行性口炎, 兽疫性口炎, 口蹄疫

epidemic method 防疫方法

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