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

• Experts wonder why the US government is not taking similarly strong actions against AIDS in this country
  专家们对为什么美国政府没在这个国家采取类似的强硬措施来对抗艾滋病而感到疑惑。
• This year's budget for AIDS prevention probably won't be much higher.
  今年用于防治艾滋病的预算很可能不会比往年高很多。
• There's a time lag between infection with HIV and developing AIDS
  从感染艾滋病病毒到病发有一段滞后期。
• 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 contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion
  他因为输血而感染了艾滋病。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Connecticut agreed to end its segregation of prison inmates suffering from AIDS.
  康涅狄格州同意不再隔离患艾滋病的囚犯。