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
angle of track
antiphase region
Arsenosulfurite
authors joint copyright ownership
barfy
basic oil
blood chlorin ion transducer
boiler collision chock
bubble-gummer
buoyant handle
c-myc
calf carcass
chrome alum hardener
cleaning bottle brush
compensatory stock option plan
concentrated waste store
cyc-arc welding
dilse
drainlike
drop sensor
echinophthalmia
edi notification
energy rational use
epilachna maxima
faees
force of adhesion
gables
gas cooled fast reactor
grandkid
heterosyncaryon
hypomineralization
impact ice
infundating
inulosucrases
isoelectronic sequence
isriam
Kudara
Kwai Fong
limblessly
liquid metals
Lutzen
lythrancine
macrocall argument
make a mountain out of a mole-hill
make mouths at
maltzahn
manganmuscovite
Marckwald's operation
mathiass
membrana basilaris
mobile form
nocardia minutissina
Nyavka
ololiuhqui
opisthonotal shield
ornatipinnis
over-powering
pass to on to
peak cell rate,PCR
penetration depth control
placamen chlorotica
Plassomyxineae
power supply breaker
projects meeting all quality standards
psychobiographical
puccinia baryi
pulley holder
punching template
pyritose
raman-shifteds
reactive distillation
reshaping of trees
responaut
river police force
SAHRP
shipment billed above cost
slow phase
soil erosion prediction
source language statement
specialise in
species-typical
spindles
spumid
standard terminal arrival chart
standing of tide
steeplejacks
stenothyra edogawensis tanabensis
strike through
supergroup
symmetry property
tailing fraction
taking flight
the Permian
thereabove
tracking and data-relay satellite system
turnning
undisturbed soil sample
vadium vivum
ventral plate (blastoderm)
very-low-calorie
withen
word cycle mode