SSS 2012-01-09
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(一)月
英语课
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After Haiti’earth quack 1 2 year ,color swept the country. And within months, the same strain has spread to demanded republican 2 of US then to Bure ,Mexico ,Spain ,and Canada. Fast e tools are needed to help avoid such national and international academic. But is often takes weeks for transitional disease surveillance method to reveal illness of spread. So researchers turn to Internet as possible tracking tool. They called information in 8 languages for source such news article during first hundred day after earthquake. They also search twitter with data for more than 4500 reports and nearly 189 000 tweeze. They match the outbreak and determining the process by application called health map. The information matched official result in certain places and generally followed the same trends .But unlike official issued information,these data could be connected immediately and could been available up to 2 weeks faster. The comparison was published in American journal of tropical medicine and Hygiene 3.The scientists say this method could provide a faster response to academic and potential help limit suffering such Haiti in future.
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1 quack
n.庸医；江湖医生；冒充内行的人；骗子
- He describes himself as a doctor,but I feel he is a quack.他自称是医生，可是我感觉他是个江湖骗子。
- The quack was stormed with questions.江湖骗子受到了猛烈的质问。
2 republican
n.拥护共和政体的人； adj.共和政体的，（Republican）共和党人，（Republican）共和党的
- Some families have been republican for generations.有些家庭世代都支持共和党。
- A third candidate has entered the contest for the Republican nomination.第三个候选人已经加入角逐共和党提名的行列。