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
accessories and repairs
adenomyomata
annual rate of turnover of deposits
apolunes
banders
baristo
black puddings
boiler lagging
Brachypodium distachyon
Cavite fever
chemical protection
chlorinated polyether resin
chlorine dosing room
claybeg
coal depositional model
coarsy
cogging mill
confert
conformal mapping in aerodynamics
cook-general
Cormack
cyclohexenyl
davinson
detailed information
display stand
do yourself proud
doctor - assisted suicide
East Coast of North America
effective character number
Einstein's summation convention
electric shocks
elementals
epicurism
eucalyptus globuluss
family Phillidae
fasting acid
foreign currency earnings
hair-splitting
hemohydrometry
high tide shore line
hydrogen ion comparator
inexistence, inexistency
ingirted
internal gear rotary pump
lacuna osseous
lelobanidine
lense mount
Linaria vulgaris
malum coxae
marconi operator
megacosms
missile defense alarm system (midas)
mitthyridium flavum
Mohr's stress circle
multiplex pulse transmission
nest spring
neurohormanal gland
nucella
nyahs
operationalisable
optical resonant cavity
organic-foods
partial-shoot theory
penny - wise and pound - foolish
pentagalacturonic acid
periodontology
phenozygous
phosphorial
pip-matching display
polunins
Polystigma
Postischium
prostatic part
psychological analysis
quasi stationary level
range and dead area
ranivorous
reticuloendo-thelium
rookielike
saccharic
sacrifice theory
sample certainty
shoulder hanging sprayer
Sjuφyane
slimy fish
statistical astronomy
step displacement input
sub-assembly of hull structure
Taenioidea
TECV
Tichfield
trachelomonas tshopoensis
trichords
tropophobia
Tunica muscularis
united states geological survey
very-long-baseline
votarist
what with one thing and another
whole egg with sugar
Zaavan