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
学英语单词
acid hydrolyzed casein
acoustic splitter
activities preference questionnaire
adelle
adownward
adrenolutine
Agropyron formosanum
allocator
allstars
antipoets
antiriot weapon
aprendi
artificial measures promoting regeneration
B5
basyle
beared pink
bogie device
breitschwan(t)z
Burri's method
cafesterol
Candanchu
cargo bogie
central heating
ceremonial county
Chromecast
circumvoisin
comprimario
copper bromide
Corona Borealis
corundum gabbro
dam toe
debt service requirement
decoder speed factor
deposition factor
didemnin
differential magnetic susceptibility
earth current
Elobromol
enclosed compressor
engholm
english language teaching
enteral diarrhea
environmental simulation equipment
ethyl carbinol
Exchange Ratio
excitory
extractum hydrastis
fluid sampling apparatus
general air change
Gesell, Arnold L(ucius)
graphic character conversion
horizontal scroll
ierat
karthe
loadable character set
loose powder sintering
madeira islandss
mangabeys
maritime pine scale
Mathieu differential equation
medemycin capsule
Mexicanizes
multielement infrared detector
name equivalence
Niigata
nitropenta
nonsue
nucleolus organizing region
paper clearing system
Payer of Fixed
penetrative foliation
permissible drawdown
prolapse (l. prolapsus)
punch card field
punch vtape
quinaults
recomplement
reference prism
Russellian
sahebs
scaled sculpture
seabases
set in concrete
sotos
straffans
Sulcus malleolaris
Sulfo-TEPP
sulfuryl group
technical file
tendant
tially
to increase
tribrid
typotron
untwirled
venal
virgule
Volkmann's membranes
war-taxes
well-produced
wethen
wieck