Pandemic Pænˈdemɪk Disease Pan·Dem·Ic Noun Affects People World
A pandemic is a disease that occurs over a wide area, affecting many people, such as a new cholera outbreak or the Spanish flu. It can also refer to the widespread transmission of a disease across a country or globally.
A pandemic is a disease that occurs over a wide area, affecting many people, such as a new cholera outbreak or the Spanish flu. It can also refer to the widespread transmission of a disease across a country or globally.
[N-COUNT 可数名词]（疾病的）大流行，广泛传播 A pandemic is an occurrence of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area.
[FORMAL 正式]
They feared a new cholera pandemic...
他们担心新一轮的霍乱大流行。
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。
Oxford
pan·dem·ic/pænˈdemɪk; NAmEpænˈdemɪk/nouna disease that spreads over a whole country or the whole world （全国或全球性）流行病；大流行病▶pan·dem·icadjective◆a pandemic disease大范围流行的疾病☞compare
endemic
,
epidemic
pan·dem·ic/pænˈdemɪk; NAmEpænˈdemɪk/
LDC
pandemicpan‧dem‧ic /pænˈdemɪk/ noun [countable]
Word Origin
Examples
word sets
technical a disease that affects people over a very large area or the whole world → endemic, epidemic: the AIDS pandemic—pandemic adjective
WDF
pandemic
[pænˈdemɪk]
GRE
j14753
1039
287
26
265
144
317
n36390
146
46
5
31
14
50
ADJ17019
18530
NOUN37134
2492
Spoken:
20179486
流行病(93%)，全国流行的(7%)
adj.（疾病等）（全国、全球i）流行的；普遍的
n.流行性疾病
Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.