[C]流行病 a large number of the same infectious diseases during a single period of time
英語翻譯
Noun:
a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
Adjective:
(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\\\"
造句
用作名詞(n.)
A flu epidemic raged through the school for weeks. 流感在這所學(xué)校里蔓延了幾個星期。
The small town was suddenly struck by an epidemic. 小鎮(zhèn)突然遭到傳染病的襲擊。
用作形容詞(adj.)
Violence is reaching epidemic levels. 暴力達(dá)到了流行的程度。
The corruption has become epidemic in the society. 這種腐化已成為社會上的一種歪風(fēng)。
Summer has a high incidence of epidemic diseases. 夏天是傳染病的高發(fā)季節(jié)。
常用短語
用作名詞 (n.)
動詞+～
control an epidemic
控制流行病
touch off an epidemic
引發(fā)流行病
～+介詞
an epidemic of
盛行…
組詞
One rickettsial disease, epidemic typhus, has been for centuries a great scourge of mankind.