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
-theist
ancient mariners
angling clip
area-by-area
bassons
beggar
biocondensation
blasting
book-read
cable drilling system
candle holders
cannabichromene
Ceiba fibre
chicory escaroles
chiralized
chrestomathy
clock synchronization
concern for
culture fair-intelligence test
Damascus, Great Mosque of
data demand
Davy lamp
dew-rake
digital intensity modulation
discapacitates
duodenocholedochotomy
effective thermal efficienecy
Egedesminde
electronic time fuze
engineering van
erlotinib
field distribution curve
floating mud
garcone
genus Corallorhiza
Hamdeok
hereditary fructose intolerant hypoglycemia
hose tie rack
increase in the water-holding capacity of soil
international securities firm
jointed build
Jugon-les-Lacs
kernel of a linear transformation
kick up one's heels
Killaly
knife edge
lateral corrosion
leak fungus
lenght
line pressure
long-day plant
MABC
macrocall argument list
marine air group (mag)
mark strand
McKay
meta object facility
metapodalia
morcellated
muchnick
muggert
netphones
niblock
non-storage routing
northernizes
old-squaw
Pennisetum Americanum
permanent base
Phenylisohydantoin
photochemical effect
Platte R.
pleasings
post audit
predicting machine
program lines
raymi (peru)
remelting machine
seora
single-engineds
skewness of fabric
space rule
stave wood
sternsmen
stochastic excitation NMR
strength of the figure
stromeyerine
superkingdom
suspended call position
ta ?rh ka ti
tablemate
Taipu
the lower portion of the stem
Tiglath-pileser
Tilcolil
to align A with B
torsion cone consistometer
triangular spade
tricarboxylic acid cycles
triste
warehousy
Waterbury axial plunger motor