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
acceleration clauses
backlot
bereavement pay
best-armed
brindling
broad-bean plants
calibration voltage
called segment
canonical fuzzy core
caulis bambusae in taenian
center line of bolt hole
chickies
coags
coffeepak
command read-out program
Copper-Fixed
corbis
cotectic surface
create a precedent for
crepidotus fulvotomentosus
distal bar
duodenoscopy
experimental component analysis
family viperidaes
fentin acetate
flounder gill cell line( fg )
flushing of zygomatic region
Fossa trochanterica
frequency modulation broadcasting
gawdawful
genitalia
grandsire
Gumti R.
gyrochrome
hab-nab
has difficulty with
hermite finite element
hippic
hsi shan ta ko
incrustation
infarre
internal arbitral tribunals
interstitches
johnstonwells
kakaw
kennias
ketocarotenoids
koftes
Ledaig
Leonard Bloomfield
liquid crystal light valve projector
Low Sunday
lowest-ranked
manipulability
mbop
meditated
nepa
other semiconductor devices
outlined fone
overall effectiveness factor
pentalobum
pigeon droppingss
pilot relaying
pneumas
podocarpus ferrugineas
polar coordinate distribution
primary normal stress coefficient
propulse
pseudodipteros
Puhja
punch-up sessions
radioactive cement
re-emergence
rock maple
Rock Point
rotational partition function
salesman problem
Santa Rosa del Norte
schlunks
separate connection
series of ring dyke
serum neutralization
short time change
signs of the zodiac
silver bromides
sinusoidal distribution of conductor
spark length
stochastic prediction
suetlike
Sulfatar
system of check work attendance
that's the boy
through switchboard
timeout
transitory causes of action
transmission gate circuit
utero placental artery
vertical submerged anti-corrosion pump
violes
Waimate
weatherfax
zeroth