pandemic
英 [pæn'demɪk] 美 [pæn'dɛmɪk]
- adj. （疾病等）全国流行的；普遍的
- n. 流行性疾病
词态变化
复数: pandemics;
中文词源
pandemic 流行病
pan-,全部，所有，-dem,人民，词源同democracy,demotic.即全民传染的。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. One pandemic of Spanish flu took nearly 22 million lives worldwide.
- 西班牙流感的大爆发夺去了全球近2,200万人的生命。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. They feared a new cholera pandemic.
- 他们担心新一轮的霍乱大流行。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. In some parts of the world malaria is still pandemic.
- 在世界上一些地区疟疾仍然具有高传染性。
来自辞典例句
- 4. So conceivably, this thing could be used to create a pandemic.
- 因此可以想象, 这个仪器可以用来造成大瘟疫.
来自电影对白
- 5. A virus that passes from animals to humans can cause a pandemic.
- 从动物身上传播到人类的病毒能导致大范围的流行病.
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