时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:医学英语


英语课

   “甲型H1N1流感”正在来势汹汹地对人类构成威胁。


  在全球媒体铺天盖地的“甲型H1N1流感”疫情报道中,甲型H1N1流感曾被普遍称为“猪流感”,虽然之后世卫组织就明确表示用“猪流感”表示此次疫情并不合适,但毕竟这已经是一个家喻户晓的词语。猪流感”在英语中的说法并非pig flu而是swine flu,也就是说,这里的“猪”不是pig,而是swine。
  英语中用来称呼“猪”的单词除了pig之外还有swine和hog,pig无疑是目前最常用的单词。而Swine的词义含有明显的贬义。Hog主要是美国英语用法,倾向于指已经养得膘肥体壮可以进入屠宰程序的猪。
  在此次“猪流感”疫情中,除了学习到了swine flu这一表达之外,出现频率较高的相关词汇还有:
  flu vaccine(流感疫苗)
  flu caseload(感染病例数)
  flu strain(流感病毒株)
  anti-viral medications(抗病毒药物)
  contagious(会传染的)
  respiratory disease(呼吸道疾病)
  circulate(传播)
  contaminate(传染)
  infect(感染)
  contract(感染)
  epidemic(流行病,时疫)
  epidemiologists(流行病学专家)
  pandemic(尤指全国性流行的疾病)
  pneumonias(肺炎)
  confirmed case(确诊病例)
  suspected case(疑似病例)
  incubation period(潜伏期)
  outbreak(爆发)
  mutate into a more human-to-human transmission/spread/infection(人与人之间的传播/感染)
  antiviral drug(抗病毒药物)
  quarantee(医学隔离)
  step up surveillance(加强检测)
  flu jitters(流感恐慌)
  contain(遏制)
  stem the spread of the virus(制止病毒的扩散)
  dangerous strain(突变成更危险病毒株)
  public health emergency of international concern(国际关注的突发公共卫生事件)

标签: 流感 词汇
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acetyl carbinol
allocation criterion
an application interview
associated variate
bank-related broker
Bayard's ecchymosis
blotto
bull-fighters
cage washer
carrier accumulation
clerking
cole-haan
corotation electric field
cylindrical cutting unit
depressomotors
Dicellomus
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dissipative attenuation
distant cauterization
do-rags
endocystitis
expense of reproduction
experimental tnak
family bombacaceaes
feed water heating system
flavivirus hepacivirus
flood estimation
furzy
Gerostop
giaquinto
GPRS radio resources service access point
graphite wool
greenstick-fracture
gymnothorax niphostigmus
harmsen
have Van Gogh's ear for music
imaginary frequency response
in evil part
international atomic weight
kebby
land-bank
local oscillation
locum tenentes
loran station
malls
maoz
member of train crew
microhistological
mixochimera
modern taxation system
Mongrassano
Monthly Bill
moss(y) forest
multilayered drawings
natural field electro-magnetical method
navarrenxes
Neolentinus ponderosus
neon flash tube
Nepal
non-confocal resonator
nonstandard label number
odontaspis tauruss
overaction
Oxytoxaceae
partier
pedatum
peshtigo
positron scintigraphy
pozner
prime site
real hologram spread function
resin soap
restrict
restrict client
reversive
role-player
salt books
sawtooth stopings
sectiones pedunculi cerebri
seismographic record
shield(ing) tank
shootists
slaggier
smokebox tube sheet
spolsky
staretses
surface characterization
system services control point
tend to be balanced
terry weave
to shotgun
top section modulus
touch and stay
transocular stripe
trident bats
unburned brick
union by first intention
ureine
Water Orton
Wornum
Yeomen Warders