For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on; and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.
然而，要使社会流行现象发生，每个受到影响的人随后都必须去影响他们自己的熟人，而这些熟人又必须进一步影响他们自己的熟人，依此类推；而究竟有多少其他人关注这些受影响的人，与最初的影响力者关系不大。
The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009.
最初在墨西哥被发现的猪流感爆发于 2009 年 6 月 11 日被宣布为全球性流行病。
It is the first worldwide epidemic 1 by the World Health Organization in 41 years.
这是世界卫生组织 41年来首次宣布的全球性疫情 1 。
But the epidemic is “ 4 ” in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization’s director general, 5 the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the 6 of any medical treatment.
但据该组织总干事陈冯富珍称，这种流行病在严重程度上是“4”的，5大多数患者只出现轻微症状并能完全康复，通常 6任何医疗治疗。
Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year – a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.
鉴于目前的离婚率接近50%，这意味着美国每年有数百万起离婚案例——一种沟通失败的近乎流行病式的危机。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。