chickenpox

UK:  ['tʃɪkɪn.pɒks]

US:  ['tʃɪkən.pɑks]

n.

1.水痘

1 . Your correspondent has no doubt that such a one-shot flu vaccine will one day be given to infants along with jabs against chickenpox.
毫无疑问，这种一次接种即可的疫苗在未来的某天就会同水痘疫苗一样给婴儿接种。

2 . of chickenpox at my son's school which spread like wildfire until nearly half the children caught it.
我儿子的学校里突然爆发的水痘象野火般迅速传开来，差不多有一半孩子染上了。

3 . Children who have gotten the chickenpox build an immunity to it so that they do not get it a second time.
已经得过水痘的小孩会对它免疫，所以不会再得第二次。

4 . Anyone who once had chickenpox is at risk of shingles since the virus may become reactivated years after the initial infection.
由于这种病毒可能会在首次感染后数年内重新复活，故任何曾出过水痘的人都有发生带状疱疹的风险。

5 . But the doctor but only cold rolled his eyes, dropped one: " chickenpox but are highly infectious disease. "
可是医生却只是冷冷的翻了一下白眼，扔下一句：“水痘可是有很强的传染性的疾病。”