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
a-vie
accomodation heating
accounting voucher
ace of clubs
adductor pollicis
adjectivize
Agapetes miniata
alcoholyses
antidebt
arms-related
assignment of right
Atuila
awakenest
billet-doux
blow
bohl
brodtkorbite
charge hoist
chloranemic
complex-valued measure
control chart for track maintenance
controllable reversible pitch
corporate vertical marketing systems
Coryville
cost effectiveness program
cotilidon
D component
degree of labor accident
dicysteine
DivX HD
drugs for regulating blood conditions
duet
elenita
equitable assignment of debt
Estación Obispo
feebly magnetic material
flag smut funguss
foul land
full-fraught
gelatinaion
gyroelectric
half opened corner joint
hydraulic lift cover
hydraulicking
Idiofa
indeared
index of fatigue
intercity bus industry
intergenic suppression
ion transmission
JIANFENG
Kaolinitum
khuzai
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria
licorice sticks
lifesuits
manual scram capability
meell
MEMMAKER
mendicated
metatarsalgia
metrication
moiseyev
mowche
Myxocyprinus
Mānikhāt
newshams
nfa
nominal stress
Olaya
omphalomesenteric duct anomalies
open type butter separator
operational unit
optical attenuation length of sea water
orecarrier
ostensoir
outfawning
palliator
partans
paying attentions
pharmacolites
plant design
queat
reserve fuel tank
roziglitazone
satai
scientific computing
shade-tolerant
siddowns
subversing
swamp mahogany
syntonic circuit
taxable supply
texturised
thiosulfonates
transient state frequency variation
Ugly Americans
vacuum evaporation
vanitied
variation pitch
warnesse
wet arc