contagion

英 [kənˈteɪdʒən]

美 [kənˈteɪdʒən]

n.  接触传染; 接触性传染病; (不良事物的快速)传播，蔓延，扩散

医学

BNC.34054 / COCA.18627

牛津词典

noun

• 接触传染
  the spreading of a disease by people touching each other
  1. There is no risk of contagion.
     没有接触传染的风险。
• 接触性传染病
  a disease that can be spread by people touching each other
• （不良事物的快速）传播，蔓延，扩散
  something bad that spreads quickly by being passed from person to person

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 接触传染
  Contagionis the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease.
  1. They have been reluctant to admit AIDS patients, in part because of unfounded fears of contagion...
     他们一直不愿接纳艾滋病患者，部分原因是无来由地害怕被接触传染。
  2. I'm a blood donor; I can't risk any contagion.
     我是献血者，我不能冒任何接触传染的危险。
• N-SING (不良思想、态度、感情等的)传播，蔓延
  You can usecontagionto refer to the spreading of ideas, or attitudes, or feelings that you consider to be bad or unacceptable from one group of people to another.
  1. He continues to insulate his country from the contagion of foreign ideas.
     他继续使本国远离外来思想的侵袭。
• 接触传染病
  Acontagionis a contagious disease.

英英释义

noun

• the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
  1. a contagion of mirth
  2. the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry
  Synonym:infection
• an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
  Synonym:infectiontransmission
• any disease easily transmitted by contact
  Synonym:contagious disease

双语例句

• He continues to insulate his country from the contagion of foreign ideas.
  他继续使本国远离外来思想的侵袭。
• If Greece leaves the eurozone, the contagion is impossible to predict, just as Lehman had unexpected consequences.
  如果希腊退出欧元区，危机将如何蔓延是无法预测的，就如雷曼（lehman）倒闭的后果出人意料一样。
• Too many eurozone policy makers are complacent about the risks of political and financial contagion from the Greek nightmare.
  太多的欧元区政策制定者对希腊噩梦带来的政治和金融蔓延风险掉以轻心。
• Contagion would also be inevitable.
  此外，危机蔓延也将不可避免。
• First, the 1997 banking crisis had given Japan a taste of the horrors of contagion.
  首先，1997年的银行业危机让日本尝到了危机蔓延的可怕后果。
• But it would surely generate contagion.
  但它肯定会产生传染效应。
• The euro zone offers scope for contagion, and confusion, on an epic scale.
  欧元区为经济危机蔓延和人们的困惑留下了前所未有的空间。
• Worst of all is the risk of global contagion.
  最糟糕的是，信贷紧缩有向全球蔓延的风险。
• Back in the real world, governments would have to take into account the risk of contagion.
  在现实世界中，政府必须考虑危机蔓延的风险。
• Initial commentary suggested that developed markets had suffered Asian contagion.
  最初的评论指出，发达国家市场受到了亚洲市场的传染。