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
Acetyl-3-methylpyrazine
Adare Peninsula
alloesthesia
Bacillus capsulatus septicus
bakers' eczema
blacktop road
blue print approach
boogies down
bright-polished
Brooker
busy day
Campus-Wide Information System
capsula externa nuclei lentiformis
coolant reactor
Coorgs
correlatable
coupling with rub ber pads
damping winding
dereverberation
economic disincentives
electrometer valve
epitaxial deposition
espressivo
ex abrupto
field erection sheet
field of magnetic force
foil strain-gauge transducer
folic acid analog
for form's sake
fundamental implicate
gelin
gelled up
genetic codes
gibberllin
Give a Dog a Bone
Green Bay
Gulfinishing
gunboat diplomacy
Harchabeni guil
heavy train composition
hexatriene
high accuracy positioning system
hop,step,and jump
igccs
in the shape of sth
intra-alar
irredeemable loan stock
island mole
jokings
lithopone
liverance
Londesborough
loop-couple-mode attenuator
Mabawe
make sb laugh
marprelates
messing up
metapenaeopsis dura
moisture determination
multi story building
naa-naas
nanocormia
nightfighter
Nikuwāla
non-capitalization weighted index
nuclear corpuscle
over the side
overflow meter
paragerminal
pennybaker
Perazyl
phosphorescent
pitched markets
polyglossy
preconizes
process blister
pulse recurrence period
quaintliest
Ravenshaw
rf microphone
roofscapes
scientometrician
scsls-s
shipping notice
silk gelatin
sized paper
Slapout
sorting merge
spiritualizing
split-carrier receiving system
storage disc
Tanaunella
Taubergrund
taupata
to snooze
trace of surface
track maintenance tools
unscanted
upzone
uskok
vertical consistency
Yaguacire