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
accounting by month
adduces
afp reblocking program
aginactin
Albanic
alexandrinuss
anderson-brinkman- morel state
antiodorant
apoglycogen
atretic
Avicennia marina
avocourts
azimuth and range
bast zone
biotherms
boat tiller
bunya pine
Bégon
calcifying epithelioma of malherbe
call by name parameter
cherry-sized
choleuria
commoditie
common substructure
construction finished
creditor's equity
Dashtobod
decollated
Dessie
dextrosum
dieng
dihydroepicandrosterone
eighty-two
Electroflour
embrute
exchange energy
fore-bay
formatted field definition
Fowles
geeken's diagram
geometric configuration
goggle eye
have trust in
heater steam coil
heimo
high power coastal station
horizontal evolution
hyperconcentrations
king of the forest
Lashkar-e-Taiba
leakseeker
liability accounts
liquid space velocity
Masāhūn, Kūh-e
meduseld
mode indication
movt
mysteries of a trade
named entry
non-zero spin
ocutome
ogalalas
opler
oversocializing
pc.1
perceptual proof
posthumanisms
precampaign
pressurewire
radii loss
regular ramification
Renver's funnel
Rheem Valley
ring twister
Sanquinarine
Sao Tome and Principe
scan control unit
Scheffau
second stage cooler
shent
simple branched alveolargland
single-core optical connector
sinusitis
soil horizontal distribution
superconducting power transmission
Swedeling
tantalum filament
tavares
tempon
titanias
Toltecan
total net weight
triisobutyltin bromide
twangster
two-station molding machine
universally valid formula
unsolomonize
upcraft
word cycle operation
Wǒnhung-ri
zinc caprylate