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 full figure
adaptive radar-controlled autopilot
air valve chamber
alkali test
anterior arch area
anti-idiotypic
approximating programming method
Arabeva
autoflowing
Bielitz
biopolitically
bish bosh
blackhull disease
Buechel
casting copper
chaix
chamfered pole shoe
Ciudad Lerdo
cleanouts
control plan
Corchorus pyriformis
Crucis
depicturing
diesel tamping machine
dimastigate
distend-cosmic
distributor ignition
dornicks
Droylsden
electron migration
electrooptic glass
energy rational use
enormly
entice with
fall into line
fibrous barite(heavy spar)
fill'er up
flat topped curve
gas refrigeration
gloit
indirect action
internal lubrication
intravascular coagulation fibrinolysis
joints of hand
jubran
klaasens
Kri
layer number of transverse bar
Luangnamtha
magnetic card system
man with the ax
matchbush
mathematical knowledge
mesotro
microspora stagnorum
midmountain
moderable
multifacetedness
Muslimas
mutton dressed up like lamb
Neyman distribution
no-party
oil hydraulic die cushion
open doors
optical cable assembly
optical fiber subscriber networks
optimizable loop
Oxford weed
packing department
pepastic
plant roots
projective conic
pronaus
pulp board
put someone to a lot of expense
radio compass error
ratchet wheel key
reentrant syncline
resinification
san jose state university
Satter's sign
separation of placenta
shelvings
silicon chip array splicing
Sinjang-ni
skew ring
source parameter
stiffening orders
storage starch
sub-districts
takeoff jams
threshold of perception current
tipping barrow
top minnow
turn a cold shoulder to
uncocooned
underglaze
water head test
way-bent
without light and shade
yatom