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contagion n.传染病；接触传染；蔓延 (1) 肺结核是呼吸道传染病。(2) 乙肝属于什么传染病？(3) 人们心中的恐惧像瘟疫一样蔓延开来。(4) 有些疾病藉传染蔓延。 Contagion can apply not only to the spread of emotions but also to the spread of disease. If you’re feeling sick, you should stay home to reduce the risk of contagion. (Be sure to use the word contagion when you call in sick; it’s a great opportunity to impress people with your vocabulary.) Contagion is akin to the word contagious, an adjective describing things that spread from person to person, like certain diseases... and yawning.

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英 [kən'teɪdʒən] 美 [kən'teɪdʒən] (1) Tuberculosis is respiratory tract contagion.(2) What contagion does second liver belong to?(3) Fear spread through the crowd like a contagion.(4) Some diseases spread by contagion. Have you ever noticed how when one person yawns, the people around him tend to do so as well? This phenomenon can be described as a contagion, the spreading of an emotional or mental state (in this case, fatigue). 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]接触传染 Contagion is the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease. They have been reluctant to admit AIDS patients, in part because of unfounded fears of contagion...他们一直不愿接纳艾滋病患者，部分原因是无来由地害怕被接触传染。I'm a blood donor； I can't risk any contagion.我是献血者，我不能冒任何接触传染的危险。2[N-SING 单数名词](不良思想、态度、感情等的)传播，蔓延 You can use contagion to refer to the spreading of ideas, or attitudes, or feelings that you consider to be bad or unacceptable from one group of people to another.   [oft N of n]  [disapproval]He continues to insulate his country from the contagion of foreign ideas.他继续使本国远离外来思想的侵袭。3[N-COUNT 可数名词]接触传染病 A contagion is a contagious disease.   [OLD-FASHIONED 过时]

英语单词	contagion
英美音标	英 [kən'teɪdʒən] 美 [kən'teɪdʒən]
中文释义	n.传染病；接触传染；蔓延
英语例句	(1) Tuberculosis is respiratory tract contagion. (2) What contagion does second liver belong to? (3) Fear spread through the crowd like a contagion. (4) Some diseases spread by contagion.
中文例句	(1) 肺结核是呼吸道传染病。 (2) 乙肝属于什么传染病？ (3) 人们心中的恐惧像瘟疫一样蔓延开来。 (4) 有些疾病藉传染蔓延。
vocabulary简明	Have you ever noticed how when one person yawns, the people around him tend to do so as well? This phenomenon can be described as a contagion, the spreading of an emotional or mental state (in this case, fatigue).
vocabulary扩展	Contagion can apply not only to the spread of emotions but also to the spread of disease. If you’re feeling sick, you should stay home to reduce the risk of contagion. (Be sure to use the word contagion when you call in sick; it’s a great opportunity to impress people with your vocabulary.) Contagion is akin to the word contagious, an adjective describing things that spread from person to person, like certain diseases... and yawning.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]接触传染 Contagion is the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease. They have been reluctant to admit AIDS patients, in part because of unfounded fears of contagion... 他们一直不愿接纳艾滋病患者，部分原因是无来由地害怕被接触传染。 I'm a blood donor； I can't risk any contagion. 我是献血者，我不能冒任何接触传染的危险。 2 [N-SING 单数名词](不良思想、态度、感情等的)传播，蔓延 You can use contagion to refer to the spreading of ideas, or attitudes, or feelings that you consider to be bad or unacceptable from one group of people to another. [oft N of n] [disapproval] He continues to insulate his country from the contagion of foreign ideas. 他继续使本国远离外来思想的侵袭。 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]接触传染病 A contagion is a contagious disease. [OLD-FASHIONED 过时]

Contagion Spread Person Spreading Disease Risk Word Contagious