英语释义

1. affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time
typhoid was epidemic

2. excessively prevalent

3. contagious sense 4
epidemic laughter

4. characterized by very widespread growth or extent of, relating to, or constituting an epidemic
the practice had reached epidemic proportions

5. an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time an outbreak of epidemic disease

6. an outbreak or product of sudden rapid spread, growth, or development
an epidemic of bankruptcies

7. an occurrence in which a disease spreads very quickly and affects a large number of people

8. a sudden quickly spreading occurrence of something harmful or unwanted

9. a rapidly spreading outbreak of disease

10. something harmful that spreads or develops rapidly
a crime epidemic

11. spreading widely and affecting many people at the same time
an epidemic disease

12. affecting or tending to affect an atypically large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time
typhoid was epidemic — compare endemic, sporadic sense 1

13. of, relating to, or constituting an epidemic
coronary disease…has hit epidemic proportions
— Herbert Ratner

14. an outbreak of epidemic disease

15. a natural population (as of insects) suddenly and greatly enlarged

英汉例句

• it is the public health problem of high fatal and rapid epidemicity of aids in all over the world.

  艾滋病的高致死性和快速流行性使它已成为全球重要的公共卫生问题。

• conclusion the epidemicity of leprosy has been continuously dropping in zhejiang province due to the sustained effort and effective control.

  结论浙江省麻风流行趋势持续下降，控制成效显着，成果巩固。

相似词

catching（非正式）（疾病）传染性的；（情感或情绪）有感染力的

contagious感染性的；会蔓延的

infectious传染的；传染性的；易传染的

spreading传播；摊开（spread 的现在分词）