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Thursday, April 30, 2009

每日一字 3

Pandemic - 中譯: 普遍流行的、蔓延全國 [世界] 的

1666, from Gk. pandemos "pertaining to all people," from pan- "all" + demos "people" (see demotic). Modeled on epidemic. The noun is first recorded 1853, from the adj.


由三個希臘字根
pan-: 解 所有,例如: 仙丹=panacea, 即係有病醫病,無病強身嗰 D. 又或者 全景圖=panorama
dem-: 解 人,例如: 民主=democracy, 人民自主。另一個例子 人口統計學=demography
-ic: 形容詞

Pandemic 字面解,即係個病可以感染所有人...

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