Americans are experiencing an epidemic of overweight and obesity .
美国人正处于超重和肥胖症的流行阶段。
The world health organization calls obesity a global epidemic .
世界卫生组织称肥胖症为一种全球流行病。
Monitoring the chatter , however , may nip such an epidemic in the bud .
如果能监视这种跃动,就有可能将瘟疫消灭在萌芽时期。
A full-blown epidemic in a big wheat-growing area could therefore be catastrophic .
该病在一个大麦产区的流行性大爆发很可能是灾难性的。
The swine flu virus in the u.s. is the same one causing a deadly epidemic in mexico . What is swine flu ?
美国已发现的猪流感病毒和在墨西哥引起致命传染的是同一病毒.猪流感是什么东西?
汉语翻译
n. 传染病, 流行病 a. 流行的, 传染性的 【医】 流行病, [流行病]流行, 流行性的
词型变化
副词:epidemically 异体字:epidemical
英语解释
名词 epidemic:
a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
形容词 epidemic:
(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
例句
A flu epidemic raged through the school for weeks.流感在这所学校里蔓延了几个星期。
The village is suffering from a cholera epidemic.这个村庄正流行霍乱。
A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.瘟疫通常指一种致命的传染病,尤指淋巴腺鼠疫
Football hooliganism is now reaching epidemic proportions.足球比赛中恣意闹事现在已经达到愈演愈烈的地步。
There has recently been an epidemic of crime in our major cities.近来我们一些大城市中罪案频繁。
I have an influenza epidemic.我得了流行性感冒。
详细解释
ep.i.dem.ic adj.(形容词)Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time:流行性的:能够在一个地区或人群中迅速广泛地蔓延:例句:an epidemic outbreak of influenza.流行性感冒的爆发性蔓延 Widely prevalent:极为盛行的:例句:epidemic discontent.普遍流行的不满情绪 n.(名词)An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely.流行:传染病的迅速广泛传播和蔓延A rapid spread, growth, or development:迅速的传播、生长或发展:例句:an unemployment epidemic.迅速扩散的失业 来源:French épidémique 法语 épidémique from épidémie [an epidemic] 源自 épidémie [流行病] from Old French espydymie 源自 古法语 espydymie from Medieval Latin epidômia 源自 中世纪拉丁语 epidômia from Greek [prevalence of an epidemic disease] 源自 希腊语 [流行病的流行] from epidômos [prevalent] 源自 epidômos [流行] epi- [epi-] epi- [前缀,表.在…之间,前.] dômos [people] * see d3- dômos [人们] *参见 d3- 【引伸】 ep.idem.ically adv.(副词)