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pandemic adj.全国流行的n.流行病 (1) 目前仍没有可有效预防流感大流行的疫苗。(2) 流感在变成流行病之前被控制住了。(3) 禽流感疫情控制得非常好。 People fear pandemics, and with good reason. The black plague that ran through Asia and Europe in the 1300s is believed to have killed as much as half of Europe's population, between 75 and 100 million folks. The word comes from ancient Greek — pan (meaning "all") and demos (meaning "people"), or simply put — all the people. Of course, people across the globe suffer from the seasonal flu, and many die from it. But it isn't considered a pandemic because it is generally harmless to the healthy.

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英 [pæn'demɪk] 美 [pæn'demɪk] (1) Vaccines effective against a pandemic virus are not yet available.(2) The flu was arrested before it became a pandemic.(3) The bird flu pandemic is well controlled. Remember the 2009 swine flu? That was a pandemic — an illness that swept over much of the globe. 1[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。

英语单词	pandemic
英美音标	英 [pæn'demɪk] 美 [pæn'demɪk]
中文释义	adj.全国流行的 n.流行病
英语例句	(1) Vaccines effective against a pandemic virus are not yet available. (2) The flu was arrested before it became a pandemic. (3) The bird flu pandemic is well controlled.
中文例句	(1) 目前仍没有可有效预防流感大流行的疫苗。 (2) 流感在变成流行病之前被控制住了。 (3) 禽流感疫情控制得非常好。
vocabulary简明	Remember the 2009 swine flu? That was a pandemic — an illness that swept over much of the globe.
vocabulary扩展	People fear pandemics, and with good reason. The black plague that ran through Asia and Europe in the 1300s is believed to have killed as much as half of Europe's population, between 75 and 100 million folks. The word comes from ancient Greek — pan (meaning "all") and demos (meaning "people"), or simply put — all the people. Of course, people across the globe suffer from the seasonal flu, and many die from it. But it isn't considered a pandemic because it is generally harmless to the healthy.
柯林斯解释	1 [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。

Pandemic Flu People Million Meaning 英 Pæn'demɪk] 美 Pæn'demɪk