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
2nd engineer
a ray of light
acetodeoxynivalenol
acute myelofibrosis
agathodaimon
airscoop drag
aldaric
apparent number
articularis genus
autostar
batwing dipole
blestrianol
board jump pit
boiling sulfur reactor
boulevardiers
browser-based
cartilaage
Chrysothamnus
clavicle stroke
colocalize
compound duty
crepuscular ray(s)
cybercitizenship
denhams
dial-peer
discretisation
domestic sales
double epitaxial method
dry compression
dwarf buffaloes
evaluating indicator
extra-chromosome
guided wideband transmission
hatest
heat-proof porcelain
in the clutch
interior semidegree
intraischemic
iridize
Jorge Borges
laophonte brevirostris
lauric acids
light C bag
liner trains
liquid-metal-coolant circuit
lymphokinin
lysogenisations
madoh
malarial splenomegaly
manufacturing facilities
matarasso
materials returned to stockroom
maxses
meachem
Meskhetian
methaemoglobin
micropaleontologies
misdempt
mixing baffle
morphophonological
mould welding
movable frame
multicut-lathe
multivariable hazard
ncsr
nose radiator
oceanodromas
one-column radiator
one-forty
out trays
overspendings
pancreaticocolostomy
performeter period signal
permanent-magnet
pip
pitzer
playback equalizing
Porandra microphylla
position coder
pressure dilatation
projecting pasrt
Pronsk
protective screen
purple emperor
rompf
scrubbing section
scudoes
seismites
solution of arabic gum
stereo pickup
target designation and tracking laser
telegamic
ternary CAM
tiny BASIC
totem-poles
type two error
visual tactial deception
waterdeer
weight name
wider margin of variation
wood culvert