epidemic
英 [ep?'dem?k]
美 [,?p?'d?m?k]
- adj. 流行的；傳染性的
- n. 傳染病；流行病；風尚等的流行
中文詞源
epidemic 流行的epi-, 在上，在中。-demo, 人民，詞源同demotic, democracy.
英文詞源
- 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).
=> democracy - 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.
雙語例句
- 1. Drug experts say it could spell the end of the crack epidemic.
- 禁毒專家說它可能會結束強效可卡因吸食泛濫的局面。
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- 2. Health officials have successfully confined the epidemic to the Tabatinga area.
- 衛生官員成功地將疫情控制在塔巴廷加地區。
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- 3. The major impact of this epidemic worldwide is yet to come.
- 這種傳染病在世界范圍內的重大影響還未完全顯現。
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- 4. The AIDS epidemic further stigmatised gays.
- 艾滋病的流行讓人們更加瞧不起男同性戀者。
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- 5. Today, doctors are fearing a worldwide epidemic.
- 現今，醫生們擔心會爆發世界性的流行病。
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