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

• 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。
• But in a system-wide breakdown, it also fuelled contagion.
  但在系统性的崩溃中，它也会加剧危机的蔓延。
• The Fed will look for signs that its moves have stopped the contagion.
  美联储将密切关注市场迹象，看看其举措是否阻止了危机蔓延。
• A European-backed rescue of Irish banks will reduce the risk of contagion from haircuts on interbank loans.
  以欧洲为后盾对爱尔兰银行实施救援，将降低银行间贷款折价蔓延的风险。
• Contagion in the bond markets now threatens to spread to Italy, a core eurozone member.
  眼下，债券市场危机有可能蔓延到欧元区核心成员意大利。
• Soon, the "Asian contagion" crisis went global, taking Brazil and Russia with it.
  不久，“亚洲传染病”危机扩散到全球，巴西和俄罗斯也受害。
• This increases the risk of contagion between financial systems in the EU and accelerates that contagion.
  这增大了危机在欧盟各国金融体系蔓延的风险，而且会加快蔓延速度。
• 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。
• Studies of Defaults Contagion Mechanism under sub-prime Crisis and Strategies Analysis
  次贷危机中的传染机制研究和策略分析