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
accurate filter
alienors
Arrl
artificial feel
as is the way
as well someone might do
asynchronous uncontrolled
at that moment
ball-and-disc integrator
begr
Borthwickia
bright wire
celiac ganglia
Chr.
Chrysler
cider brandy
clearing and controlling centre
condylus maxilla
coumarin-7
cuyamaca
denary band
diesinking machine
disenthroned
edge calking
Edison screw holder
ehilitis
eulogizing
febrile seizure
firn basin
fly-by-wire system
free end attachment
free-enthalpy
freight inward
glass-ware
glycaric acid
gyroantihunt
HKCR
homogeneous products
inflation bottle
inhalant canal
iron dog
isotropic scatterning
JWs
Kalarskiy Khrebet
Kastorf
ketly
landing craft
law of related composition
light tan
lipodystrophic
lloyd's law reports
long-time base
low intensity
managest
manomete
manual lever
Mbéti
minor element
motorsailer
mudspates
noctiflorous
non-linear characteristic
nonmoving
nontree
nortesterionate
oil-quenching vacuum resistance furnace
palm hammock
pandurata
peeling and corning of fruits
policy preference
poll-bill
power toothbrush
precision approach radar
preliminary mixing chamber
propers
psychological process
pursie
purveyer
qrs
random partition
record ignored
red-streak
rheological reactor model
Rhododendron griersonianum
Ridley R.
rising intonation
savanahs
sec-octyl bromide
shenton
Spodsbjerg
superheated vapour
table-leaves
tapir-mouth
terminal hour
test monitor
throwing stones to packing sedimentation
tiwce of milking
to a certain extent
topographical triangulation
umpired
upwhirling
Veronica chamaedrys