AIDS

英 [eɪdz]

美 [eɪdz]

n.  艾滋病(全写为Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome，获得性免疫缺陷综合征)

高考IELTSTEM8计算机

Collins.4 / BNC.3757 / COCA.1793

牛津词典

noun

• 艾滋病（全写为Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome，获得性免疫缺陷综合征）
  the abbreviation for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (an illness which attacks the body's ability to resist infection and which usually causes death)
  1. AIDS research/education/victims
     艾滋病研究 / 教育 / 患者
  2. He developed full-blown AIDS five years after contracting HIV.
     他感染艾滋病病毒五年以后，患上了完全型艾滋病。

柯林斯词典

• 艾滋病；获得性免疫缺陷综合征
  AIDSis a disease which destroys the natural system of protection that the body has against other diseases.AIDSis an abbreviation for (缩略=) 'acquired immune deficiency syndrome'.

双语例句

• The title is perhaps an allusion to AIDS.
  该题目可能暗指艾滋病。
• We must use shock tactics if we are to stop Aids becoming another accepted 20th-century disease.
  如果不想让艾滋病成为20世纪又一常见疾病，我们必须让人们对它产生恐惧。
• He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion
  他因为输血而感染了艾滋病。
• They are not given hearing aids or taught to lip-read.
  没有给他们提供助听设备，也没教过他们唇读。
• We can now talk openly about AIDS which we couldn't before
  现在我们能公开谈论以前讳言不提的艾滋病问题。
• The book analyses the social and political ramifications of AIDS for the gay community.
  这本书分析了艾滋病给同性恋群体所带来的社会和政治影响。
• This new attitude is good news to AIDS activists.
  这种新态度对艾滋病活动家来说是件好事。
• He said it was wrong to single out any section of society for Aids testing
  他说把社会中的任何一部分人抽选出来做艾滋病检查都是不对的。
• Many areas in the country's interior are unable to report Aids cases immediately.
  该国内地的很多地区无法即时报告艾滋病病例。
• Some people have the erroneous notion that one can contract AIDS by giving blood
  一些人错误地认为献血会让人感染艾滋病。