virus
noun [ C ] uk/ˈvaɪə.rəs/ us/ˈvaɪ.rəs/
(DISEASE)
B2 病毒
an extremely small piece of organic material that causes disease in humans, animals, and plants
the chickenpox/flu/herpes/mumps virus 水痘／流行性感冒／疱疹／流行性腮腺炎病毒
Evidence suggested that the AIDS virus was spreading very quickly among the heterosexual community. 有证据表明艾滋病病毒正在异性恋群体中迅速传播。
B2 病毒病，病毒性疾病；病毒感染
a disease caused by a virus
I don't know exactly what's wrong with her - I think she has some kind of virus. 我不知道她到底得了什么病——我觉得可能是某种病毒感染。
Several employees were off work with a vomiting virus. 几名员工因感染致呕吐病毒而没能来上班。
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- A local doctor was the first to raise the alarm about this latest virus.
- The virus is contracted through exchange of bodily fluids.
- All the tomato plants are infected with a virus.
- The doctors have attributed the cause of the illness to an unknown virus.
- It's possible to pass on the virus to others through physical contact.
(COMPUTER PROBLEM)
B1 计算机病毒
a computer program or part of a computer program that can make copies of itself and is intended to prevent the computer from working normally
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- A computer virus may lurk unseen in a computer's memory, calling up and infecting each of the machine's data files in turn.
- The virus deletes files and corrupts essential core microchips leaving computers unusable.
- All their customer information was wiped off the computer by a virus.
- If you think there may be a virus, don't open the attachment.
- I got a virus alert when I downloaded my email.