pandemic
英 [p?n'dem?k]
美[p?n'd?m?k]
- adj. （疾病等）全國流行的；普遍的
- n. 流行性疾病
GRE暢通詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復數:?pandemics;
中文詞源
pandemic 流行病
pan-,全部，所有，-dem,人民，詞源同democracy,demotic.即全民傳染的。
英文詞源
- pandemic (adj.)
- 1660s, from Late Latin pandemus, from Greek pandemos "pertaining to all people; public, common," from pan- "all" (see pan-) + demos "people" (see demotic). Modeled on epidemic. The noun is first recorded 1853, from the adjective.
雙語例句
- 1. One pandemic of Spanish flu took nearly 22 million lives worldwide.
- 西班牙流感的大爆發(fā)奪去了全球近2,200萬人的生命。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. They feared a new cholera pandemic.
- 他們擔心新一輪的霍亂大流行。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. In some parts of the world malaria is still pandemic.
- 在世界上一些地區(qū)瘧疾仍然具有高傳染性。
來自辭典例句
- 4. So conceivably, this thing could be used to create a pandemic.
- 因此可以想象, 這個儀器可以用來造成大瘟疫.
來自電影對白
- 5. A virus that passes from animals to humans can cause a pandemic.
- 從動物身上傳播到人類的病毒能導致大范圍的流行病.
來自互聯網