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小词详解 | pandemic
The 1918 pandemic was caused by a strain with a version of haemagglutinin called H1 and a version of neuraminidase called N1.
1918年的流感大流行是由携带H1型血凝素和N1型神经氨酸酶的病毒株引起。
——《经济学人》One of its implicit premises was the silliness of the pandemic of American nostalgia, especially for a culturally dubious decade that had ended less than a decade earlier.
其中一个暗含的前提是美式怀旧蔓延的愚蠢,特别是对于一个文化上非常模糊的十年的怀旧,而它的终结甚至还不到十年。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 流行于整个国家或世界的疾病
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
地球上没有任何一场战争比艾滋病大流行更具破坏性。
epidemic: a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time plague: any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people pestilence: a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague