outbreak的意思|outbreak的解释-里氏词典

outbreak ['autbreik]

n. 爆发, 暴动

[医] 暴发

outbreak

[ noun ]
a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
<noun.event>
the outbreak of hostilities

outbreak \out"break`\, n.
1. A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection; mutiny; revolt.
``Mobs and outbreaks.'' --J. H. Newman.

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. --Shak.

2. A sudden beginning of a violent event; as, the outbreak of
hostilities between ethnic groups.
[PJC]

3. A sudden occurrence or manifestation; -- usually of
disease or emotion, in one person or a group; as, an
outbreak of measles among the students; he had an outbreak
of shingles; an outbreak of nervousness in the mob.
[PJC]

In 1985, Illinois was the center of a massive Midwest salmonella outbreak in which more than 16,000 cases were confirmed.
Reimer said Monday there appears to be no outbreak of measles among the state's largest concentration of Amish in Lancaster County in southeastern Pennsylvania.
A whole city block, including a large department store, was engulfed in flames in the most serious outbreak of violence in any city outside Beijing.
Minnesota officials said Monday the outbreak of salmonella javiana was definitely linked to tomatoes.
Before the outbreak of the new fighting, Aoun's army held a quarter of Kleiat.
Wojciech Jaruzelski at a monument commemorating the outbreak of World War II.
My own tendency would be to emphasize the fact that we had a very bad speculative outbreak once before with most disagreeable consequences and that what happened before could happen again.
In the province of Natal, South African police on Tuesday reported a renewed outbreak of violence.
Foul-mouthed students will be punished for unsavory utterances or offending epithets scrawled on lockers under a policy designed to stifle an outbreak of schoolyard name-calling.
Jesse Jackson's extraordinary showing has bathed the party's small universe of movers and shakers in the kind of fear usually reserved for the outbreak of nuclear war.
The first outbreak of ethnic violence under Gorbachev was in Alma Ata, the Kazakhstan capital, in December 1986.
Two federal health agencies say they won't investigate an outbreak of a rare cancer suffered by three babies here unless asked to do so by the state health department.
Angry farmers blocked highways in four towns for a second day today to stop officials from destroying 150,000 pigs to combat an outbreak of swine plague.
An outbreak of hostilities after the U.N.-imposed Jan. 15 deadline for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait could compel the Congress to vote on a measure endorsing the conflict and, perhaps, paying for it.
The preliminary findings released Wednesday by France's public hospital authority indicated food preparation at the Charles Richet hospital in suburban Cergy Pontoise was not the cause of the outbreak.
This was evident in an outbreak of vicious street violence earlier this month between ethnic Hungarians and Romanians in the province of Transylvania.
Sarajevo, meanwhile, suffered an outbreak of sniper fire, despite an accord which earlier UN reports had suggested was holding as it entered its second day.
Mark Canfield, chief of epidemiology for the Harris County Health Department, said Tuesday that the source of an outbreak of flulike symptoms at the county jail was unknown.
This body of European mediators would have kept the lines of dialogue open between the Yugoslav republics and the central government, while developing new security mechanisms to prevent the continual outbreak of local or regional conflict.
There are a number of factors behind the outbreak of hostilities in brewing. Recession and an ageing population have reduced demand for beer.
So why the outbreak of horizontal merger activity? One common feature, apart from the presence of powerful political or business figures in the driving seat, is that these deals offer new homes or partners for troubled companies.
Some critics said that there is no wide outbreak of flag burning in the United States and that the bill would encroach on freedom of speech as a means of fighting a danger that does not exist.
Election day was peaceful, but the election season brought an outbreak of assassinations, disappearances and death threats that put Guatemala back on the international human rights watch list.
Italy suffered an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease earlier this year, which was brought in from eastern Europe. Mr Anthony said the European Commission had to ensure all member states used common health certification standards.
Many individual investors, expecting stocks to plunge on the outbreak of war, missed the rally yesterday, they said.
The measures are part of an effort by Detroit to remake its lawless image and end the annual outbreak of fires that has become a national embarrassment.
The outbreak was the worst in Indiana since a tornado barrage in 1974 killed 47 people.
The 1981-82 outbreak in the state and resulting quarantines cost growers $100 million, while another $100 million was spent on eradication.
For the nation as a whole, oil dropped from 77.4% of total energy supplies in 1973 to 71.5% at the outbreak of the 1979 oil crisis and now stands at just under 58%.
"But from an epidemiological point of view, there has never been an outbreak because of disposal of infectious waste," he said Monday.

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