Epidemic

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

(adj.) (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; 'an epidemic outbreak of influenza' .

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• He looked like a walking-West-Indian-epidemic. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• America had also received the taint; and, were it yellow fever or plague, the epidemic was gifted with a virulence before unfelt. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Gibbon couples the Justinian epidemic with the great comet of 531, and with the very frequent and serious earthquakes of that reign. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gregory, let me recommend to your attention this singular epidemic among the sheep. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Homesickness was abroad in the ship--it was epidemic. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But the grand question was still unsettled of how this epidemic was generated and increased. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Having adjusted such spectacles the Commission proceeded to look at this curse which is more blasting than any plague or epidemic, at an evil which spells only ruin to the race. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was called an epidemic. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Yet the death of each of its constituent members is as certain as if an epidemic took them all at once. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• However, they must keep epidemics away somehow or other, and fumigation is cheaper than soap. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The prevention of disease epidemics is one of the most striking achievements of modern science. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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