contagion
contagion 英 [kənˈteɪdʒən] 美 [kənˈtedʒən]
n. 传染病；蔓延；触染
名词复数:contagions
- Have you ever noticed how when one person yawns, the people around him tend to do so as well? This phenomenon can be described as a contagion, the spreading of an emotional or mental state (in this case, fatigue).
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- n. 传染病；蔓延；触染
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1. And now we have another great global contagion to contend with.
现在我们又有一种重大全球传染病要应对。
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2. The idea that loneliness spreads like a contagion was based on the observation that, over time, scores of loneliness seemed to spread to the edge of a network.
孤独可以像传染病一样传播的观点建立在这一观察基础之上：长期的观察发现许多孤独感似乎扩散到了这一网络的边缘。
- contagion (n.) late 14c., "a communicable disease; a harmful or corrupting influence," from Old French contagion and directly from Latin contagionem (nominative contagio) "a touching, contact," often in a bad sense, "a contact with something physically or morally unclean, contagion," from contingere "to touch," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + tangere "to touch," from PIE root *tag- "to touch, handle." Meaning "infectious contact or communication" is from 1620s.
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