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
abscissin
acclimatized
alternaria passiflorae
Ammon's operation
balula
barley-corn weave
Bhusawal
bifocal slasses
blocking price
broaches
built-in standard transformation procedure
Carlos Chagas
chelminski
cleveite
closest-packed crystal plane
conrath
constant number
consular immunities
cooking stove
COPREX
cross beam on stringer
deoxyribonucleoside hydrogenphosphonate
deposit from employess
diacetyldihydromorphine
differential-mode disturbance voltage
diphenyltin diiodide
doigt
eight-channel
encoder block diagram
engreif
ergoplasm
erysipelous
eskimo-aleuts
fadenreaction
fertilizer-responsive
filament resistance
forward operating location
ghaut
giving up on
helical spin structure
hereditarily countable
highly leveraged
icejam stage
implementational
improperly received profit
ingrandize
integrated computer system
Katupa
left hand side tool
leg work
Leutesdorf
life is just a bowl of cherries
lift/drag ratio
linear homogeneous restrictions
longitudinal resistance of ballast
maiden assize
masteller
mcmurtrie
minesweepings
mirror van Helmont's
n-channel metal-oxide semiconductor
n-step starter
ochotona princepss
optimality condition
ordering instructions
out-of-the-box thinking
percentage of earbearing tiller
personal crisis management
phimosis forceps
positive rake
power semiconductor diode
poyprene
priority interrupt strategy
pulsation dampening
Qamar, Jab.al
quota game
regulated cost
Residual asset
resistance to cleavage
reverse transcriptase
Shekelton's aneurysm
shrinkage stope face
si-mn
solitary LH deficiency
St-Laurent-du-Pont
stretch the length of sth
suction point
surinam rivers
test-flight
theatre-goings
thermographic process
thiosulfuranyl
tidefall
tin whistles
torpedo spotting indicator
touch one's hat to
Underplant-operation
upflare
urobacteria
village halls
x-wing
Yedrovo