English Dictionary

contagion

IPA（発音記号）

/kənˈteɪd͡ʒən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 広義 比喩的用法

A disease spread by contact. / The spread or transmission of such a disease. / The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.

日本語の意味

接触によって広がる病気 / そのような病気の伝染、拡散 / 閉ざされた共同体や家庭内で行動や習慣が受け継がれる現象

The rapid contagion forced authorities to close the markets until the situation was under control.

接触によって広がる病気の急速な拡大により、当局は状況が落ち着くまで市場を閉鎖せざるを得なかった。

意味（1）

A disease spread by contact.

意味（2）

The spread or transmission of such a disease.

意味（3）

The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.

It is true, they were a good-natured and respectable set of servants, who had lived so long in their places that they might be said, by a happy contagion, to have caught kindly feelings from their superiors, and, having assisted in saving the lives of the young ladies, gave them an interest in their pleasures, and a real delight in seeing those fair young faces lighted up with joy.

意味（4）

(finance) The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.

And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.

意味（5）

(finance) A recession or crisis developed in such manner.

contagions （ plural ）