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outbreak

/ˈaʊtbɹeɪk/ 名词 B2

中文: 爆发、激增、一系列、突发事端

  1. An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc. · Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic.
  2. A sudden increase. · There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
  3. An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief. (figuratively) · There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.
  4. Synonym of breakout (“escape from prison”).

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Prior to Bazalgette's brilliant intervention, recurrent outbreaks of cholera had repeatedly devastated the city, thriving in the deplorable sanitary conditions of early industrialization.
《The Great Stink and the Engineering of a Modern Metropolis》,第1页 · C2

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