epidemic-主題

epidemic

[.epi'demik]

n.流行病, 傳染病 
adj.流行的, 傳染性的

例句與用法：

A flu epidemic raged through the school for weeks.

流感在這所學校裡蔓延了幾個星期。

The village is suffering from a cholera epidemic.

這個村莊正流行霍亂。

A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.

瘟疫通常指一種致命的傳染病，尤指淋巴腺鼠疫

Football hooliganism is now reaching epidemic proportions.

足球比賽中恣意鬧事現在已經達到愈演愈烈的地步。

There has recently been an epidemic of crime in our major cities.

近來我們一些大城市中罪案頻繁。

I have an influenza epidemic.

我得了流行性感冒。

詞形變化：

副詞: epidemically | 異體字: epidemical |

英文解釋:

名詞 epidemic:

a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time

形容詞 epidemic:

(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously

同義詞

widespread | prevalent | plague | contagious | infectious | catching | outbreak | endemic | scourge | contagion | spate | wave | rash | craze | pestilence | wide-ranging | rampant | sweeping | rife |

反義詞

ecdemic | endemic |

以上來源於大辭典