English Dictionary

cancer

/ˈkænsə/

noun

(medicine, oncology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation. / (figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.

She was diagnosed with cancer last year.

意味（1）

(medicine, oncology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.

If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.

Sierra Leone's post-dictator problems are almost absurd in their breadth. It once exported rice; now it can't feed itself. The life span of the average citizen is 39, the shortest in Africa. Unemployment stands at 87 percent and tuberculosis is spreading out of control. Corruption, brazen and ubiquitous, is a cancer on the economy.