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
Adabīyah, Ra's
adjustable blowdown
admissible normal subgroup
agglutinins
ansclasimeter
Apocryphas
appointment of agent
as a system
azaspirostane
be offhand with sb
Beruas, Sungai
bipolar fabrication
blood banks
bradypterus seebohmi
canbyite (hisingerite)
cattle class
center weight governor
central ballast control station
Chernyayevka
conjugases
CONNECTED WITH
depositional traps
despitefulness
dichaetomyia pallitarsis
direct impact
domain decomposition
earbashed
electronic controlled acoustic shadow system
engraved roller
exalbuminous seed
export declaration
fertiloscopies
filled composite
fluminose
forgottons
four dimensional force
franzi
free garbage routine
froth depth
full-track laying vehicle
gastlet
group conflict
guanidotaurine
helichromy
horizontal automatic frequency control
horn collector
imaginary atom
interpretation of statutes
kibe
La Pobla de Claramunt
lactard
loan bears interest
mentre
metal bead
mid-oceanic
Minamikyushu
musculus retractor pinnae analis
mustow
natural-kinds
navigational radio direction finder
nepa
neutral scouring
oxihemogra
pannier condenser
Pedicularis honanensis
pinosylvine
polarizing screen
preferential segregation(rhodes 1942)
processor-sharing discipline
pulmonary pleurisy
pulse duration modulation
pulse-code moduonlati
quarred
race bill
rail gap adjuster
readathon
redundant phase encoding
resonation
resuscitation moss
retire shipping documents
rhetoricates
rib
rouge red glaze
Russianization
SCOPELOSAURIDAE
second boer war
sedimentary framework
self-secure
serophen
signalwomen
sparkler filter
tiddy oggy
time-depth curve
trety
volatile display
volume electromagnetic energy
wait a minute
warmsup
watchman's rattle
x value
zoltan
zone of increasingly favorable humidities