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

• 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。
• If this sparked a fire sale of dollar assets, contagion could spread to US banks.
  如果这导致美元资产被贱卖，那么危机可能会蔓延至美国银行。
• But it would surely generate contagion.
  但它肯定会产生传染效应。
• 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。
• In recent weeks, the financial contagion has spread to Europe, Asia, and scores of developing nations.
  最近几个星期来，金融问题蔓延到欧洲、亚洲和几十个发展中国家。
• The longer we wait, the more we allow the financial contagion to spread.
  我们等待的时间越长，我们允许金融传染扩散的范围就会越大。
• 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。
• There are also uncertain risks of financial contagion.
  关于金融危机是否会传染，也存在一些不确定的风险。
• 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。