音标：[.epi'demik] ；柯林斯词典等级：2 级；

n. 传染病, 流行病
a. 流行的, 传染性的

n. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
a. (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously

词型变化：名词复数形式 : epidemics
考试类型：[六级/考研/托福/IELTS/GRE]

词性分布：

名词98%

形容词2%

epidemic的用法和样例：

例句

用作名词(n.)

A flu epidemic raged through the school for weeks.流感在这所学校里蔓延了几个星期。
The small town was suddenly struck by an epidemic.小镇突然遭到传染病的袭击。

用作形容词(adj.)

Violence is reaching epidemic levels.暴力达到了流行的程度。
The corruption has become epidemic in the society.这种腐化已成为社会上的一种歪风。
Summer has a high incidence of epidemic diseases.夏天是传染病的高发季节。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)

The Sanitary Board tries to stamp out the epidemic.卫生局试图消灭这种流行病。
There has recently been an epidemic of car stealing.汽车被盗案件近来频繁发生。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

control an epidemic控制流行病
touch off an epidemic引发流行病

～+介词

an epidemic of盛行…

经典引文

One rickettsial disease, epidemic typhus, has been for centuries a great scourge of mankind.
出自：Scientific American

【近义词】

widespread分布(或散布)广的...
prevalent流行的
plague瘟疫
contagious传染性的
infectious传染的
catching易传染的
outbreak爆发
endemic风土的
scourge灾难
contagion传染病
spate泛滥
wave波浪
rash疹子
craze狂热
pestilence瘟疫
wide-ranging广泛的
rampant猖獗的
sweeping扫除
rife非常多的

【反义词】

ecdemic外地的
endemic风土的

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英语新闻

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英语每日一词

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