epidemic

名词 epidemic:

1. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time

形容词 epidemic:

1. (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously

1. A flu epidemic raged through the school for weeks.
   流感在这所学校里蔓延了几个星期。
2. The village is suffering from a cholera epidemic.
   这个村庄正流行霍乱。
3. 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
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. I have an influenza epidemic.
   我得了流行性感冒。

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）