Contagion
[kən'teɪdʒ(ə)n] or [kən'tedʒən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; 'a contagion of mirth'; 'the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry'.
整理:卢修斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
(n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
(n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
(n.) Venom; poison.
埃德加整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Infection.[2]. Contamination, taint.
錄入:洛伦佐
解釋/意思:
n. transmission of a disease from the sick to the healthy either by direct contact of a part affected with the disease or through the medium of the excretions or exhalations of the body.—n. Contā′gionist one who believes that certain diseases are contagious.—adj. Contā′gious that may be communicated by contact.—adv. Contā′giously.—ns. Contā′giousness; Contā′gium the supposed morbific matter by means of which disease spreads.—Contagious Diseases Acts a series of laws passed in 1865 and succeeding years for the better regulation of prostitutes in certain seaport and military towns.
整理:纳特
例句/造句/用法:
- We, a commercial people, were obliged to bring such schemes under consideration; and the question of contagion became matter of earnest disquisition. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In some men it is half-conscious, in others a minor influence, but almost no one of weight escapes the contagion of it entirely. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The feeling of perfect health which I enjoyed, assured me that I was free from contagion. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Did his languid air attest that he also was struck with contagion? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- They hurried away, as soon as they saw me; my agitated mien added to their fear of coming near one who had entered within the verge of contagion. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Presently he himself took the contagion and died (428 B.C.). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Henle, a German physiologist, as early as 1840, maintained the doctrine of _contagium vivum_, or contagion by the transmission of living germs. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- There is not a drop of Tom's corrupted blood but propagates infection and contagion somewhere. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- When he discovered our troop, fear of contagion conquered his love of society. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
手打:利蒂希娅