phenomenon(EXISTING THING)
a sudden short period in which someone suffers the effects of a physical or mental illness:
I had an episode of severe chest pain.
The fainting episode was caused by heat.
He still has therapy for his PTSD and not long ago, he had an episode.
The whole episode left me fuming at the injustice of it all.整个事件毫无正义可言，我感到非常愤怒。
It was just another episode in an ongoing saga of marriage problems.
The whole episode was a blatant attempt to gain publicity.整个事件完全是旨在宣传的露骨炒作。
That was a funny episode in my life.
It was an episode in his life that he'd like to forget.
Other severe psychiatric complications include episodes of delirium.
These drugs can trigger a manic episode in people with bipolar disorder.
She ended up in hospital after one particularly bad episode.

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Events and occurrences
-athon
backstory
be (all) part of life's rich tapestry/pageantidiom
benefit
binge
car wash
curve
date night
edition
epiphenomenon
goings-on
happening
occurrence
proceedings
reoccurrence
saga
shoe
spree
synchronicity
thing

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Disease & illness - general words

episodenoun[C] (PART OF STORY)

B2
one of the single parts into which a story is divided, especially when it is broadcast on the television or radio（尤指电视或广播节目的）一集，一节，片断

Examples

Next up on Channel 4 is the first episode of a new medical drama set in Chicago.
It's the penultimate episode of the series tonight.今晚播出的是这部电视连续剧的倒数第二集。
It's my favourite TV programme - I never miss an episode.这是我最喜欢的电视节目——我一集都没错过。
I missed the second episode of the series so I don't know what's going on now.我错过了系列剧的第二集，所以不知道现在的剧情进展如何。
It is her proud boast that she has never missed a single episode of the soap opera.

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binge-watch
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breakfast television
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God slot
green screen
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headline
radio broadcast
reality show
reality TV
rerun
rom com
sketch
syndicate
vox pop
webcast

episode | American Dictionary

episode
noun[ C ]
us/ˈep·əˌsoʊd/
a single event or group of related events:
That was an episode in my life that I’d like to forget.
literature
An episode is a series of actions or events that take place at one time in a work of literature.
An episode is also one of the parts of a television or radio program that is given as a series over a period of time.

Examples of episode

episode
Over the past 20 years little progress has been made in reducing the length of depressive episodes in those with bipolar illness.
Negative memories of past rumination and selffocused depressive episodes and ineffectual coping may be associated with more depressogenic attributions.
To determine whether children actually produced ' happen ' more often in negative than positive contexts, the order of occurrence of surrounding utterances within episodes was examined.
However, there is no statistical remedy for failure to recall episodes or symptoms.
The sample comprised 354 first-episode psychosis patients followed up 12-months after remission/stabilization of their psychotic symptoms.
A greater number of previous depressive episodes was also associated with a greater percentage of time spent with subsyndromal depressive symptoms.
He provides a staged genre analysis of the bribery event and shows which stages are constitutive, thereby demonstrating that certain so-called bribery episodes were not.
The average annualized number of outpatient visits was substantially higher for each disease state compared with the number of inpatient episodes.
Coders were trained to reliability using selected video recorded free-play episodes that had been previously coded by criterion coders.
This is particularly suggested by the succession of evaporite couplets, which are attributed to pulsating episodes of water table change.
Following completion of the first story episode, the referent identification and picture-naming tasks were re-administered.
In the course of repeated episodes of pain, or with persistent pain, unconditioned verbal, paraverbal, and motor responses come under the control of external contingencies.
This might be especially useful among cases with exclusively short episodes.
Only those utterances produced during shared attention episodes were retained in each protocol.
Drug screening tests are routinely performed on all first-episode patients.
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debut episode
The third season debutepisode averaged 665,000 viewers.
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