pandemic

Word family nounpandemiaadjectivepandemicpandemian

Related topics: Illness & disability

pan·dem·ic /pænˈdemɪk/ noun [countableC]

technicalMI a disease that affects people over a very large area or the whole world 流行病，大流行病，瘟疫 → endemic, epidemic

the AIDS pandemic

艾滋病瘟疫

—pandemic adjectiveadj

Examples from the Corpus

pandemic• Nobody guessed that such a rare disease would become a pandemic.• Not the real thing, of course, but rather a pandemic of stories about anarchists and conspiracies and such.• One final, explosive question remains: Why did a virus that was once so rare suddenly burst into a global pandemic?• And history teachers could set their pupils researching the influenza pandemic of 1918, a grim but fascinating topic.• Jasper and I stopped playing in 1982, before the pandemic was well along, before the virus had been isolated.• It has backfired because those worst hit by the pandemic, black people, are paying the price.• The intelligence estimate portrays the pandemic as the bad side of globalisation.• Clearly it was just an accident of history, a fluke, a momentary incursion of an otherwise universal pandemic.

Origin pandemic

(1600-1700) Greek pandemos, from pan- ( → PAN-) + demos “people”

词汇	pandemic
释义	pandemic Word family nounpandemiaadjectivepandemicpandemian Related topics: Illness & disability pan·dem·ic /pænˈdemɪk/ noun [countableC] technicalMI a disease that affects people over a very large area or the whole world 流行病，大流行病，瘟疫 → endemic, epidemic the AIDS pandemic 艾滋病瘟疫 —pandemic adjectiveadj Examples from the Corpus pandemic• Nobody guessed that such a rare disease would become a pandemic.• Not the real thing, of course, but rather a pandemic of stories about anarchists and conspiracies and such.• One final, explosive question remains: Why did a virus that was once so rare suddenly burst into a global pandemic?• And history teachers could set their pupils researching the influenza pandemic of 1918, a grim but fascinating topic.• Jasper and I stopped playing in 1982, before the pandemic was well along, before the virus had been isolated.• It has backfired because those worst hit by the pandemic, black people, are paying the price.• The intelligence estimate portrays the pandemic as the bad side of globalisation.• Clearly it was just an accident of history, a fluke, a momentary incursion of an otherwise universal pandemic. Origin pandemic (1600-1700) Greek pandemos, from pan- ( → PAN-) + demos “people”
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