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🇳🇿New Zealand Claims a Victory Over Coronavirus, But Doubts Persist
紐西蘭宣稱抗疫勝利，但疑慮尚存
🥝New Zealand declared a victory over the new coronavirus, the culmination of a tough social experiment that contrasted with less-restrictive efforts by Western countries to contain the pathogen but not eradicate it.
紐西蘭宣佈對抗新冠病毒獲勝，為其嚴格的社會實驗防疫措施之最終成果。相較起來，其他西方國家的政令限制較少，只求控制病原而非根除。
-culmination 頂點、高潮、成就，事物的高點或終局，尤指長時間取得的成果。例如 ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is the perfect culmination to 11 years of franchise building.「復仇者聯盟：終局之戰」是11年來系列建構的完美巔峰
-pathogen 病原體
-eradicate 消滅、根除
🐻The country’s 4.8 million citizens were ordered to stay home on March 23 and not to socialize with anyone outside their household “bubble” for at least four weeks. Excursions had to be essential, and solitary. There have been 1,122 cases confirmed in New Zealand, with 19 deaths, most of them elderly people with prior health conditions.
該國於3月23日對480萬國民下達居家令，至少4週不得與家庭成員以外的人社交，非必要不得外出，而且得獨自行動。目前為止，紐西蘭共有1122例確診，19人死亡，其中多數為已有健康狀況的年長者。
-excursion 短程旅行、郊遊
-essential 必要的、不可或缺的、至關重要的
-solitary 獨自的、單一的
*居家令期間為了避免孩童煩悶，紐西蘭全國響應「Bear Hunt」獵熊活動，在窗前擺放泰迪熊布偶來互相鼓舞。此活動靈感源自英國童書「We're Going on a Bear Hunt」，重點在於呼應書中詩句「We're not scared.」鼓勵大家別因疫情而陷入恐慌。
🐑Governments around the world are balancing the relaxation of coronavirus-related shutdowns against the risks of fueling fresh outbreaks of the virus and against economic pain. New Zealand’s isolation as a small island economy far from anywhere helped it avoid the kind of outbreaks seen elsewhere. But it also makes it vulnerable to future flare-ups, if it relaxes current restrictions on travel.
世界各國政府在放寬防疫的相關禁令、新一波病毒爆發的風險、以及經濟受創之間拿捏平衡。因紐西蘭是與世隔絕的小型島國經濟體，有助於避免像其他地方一樣爆發疫情，但若放鬆目前的旅遊限制，也容易受未來疫情爆發的影響。
-flare-up 爆發、驟燃
-vulnerable 易受傷的、脆弱的
🐄The lockdown—known locally as Level 4—brought the country to a virtual standstill. A recession is expected. The most dire forecasts predict New Zealand’s economy could contract by as much as 10%, and the jobless rate will triple its 4% rate in December to the highest levels in nearly 30 years. A paper published in the journal Science on April 14 said one-time lockdowns likely won’t be enough and that physical-distancing measures may need to be in place intermittently until 2022.
當地稱為「第四級警戒」的封鎖使全國完全陷入停滯，預期經濟衰退將至。最嚴重的預測為紐國經濟萎縮10%，失業率將從12月的4%爆增三倍，達30年來最高。4月14日發表於「科學」期刊的一篇論文說，一次性的封鎖可能還不夠，或許需要持續間歇性的保持人身距離措施，直到2022年。
-standstill 靜止、停頓，站著不動的樣子，常用virtual standstill來形容，是因為不可能真的完全不動，但看似幾乎沒動。像是Traffic came to a virtual standstill for more than an hour. 交通整個停止了一個多小時。
-dire 嚴重的、危急的，很常用來形容「嚴重後果」dire consequence
-contract 訂定合同、契約，在這裡是收縮、縮小的意思，另外也指患上、感染，例如She contracted the coronavirus. 她感染了新冠病毒。
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❓Quiz: Peter’s solitary bear hunt came to a __, as he suspected that he might have __ a deadly disease.
彼得獨自一人的獵熊之旅完全停頓，因他懷疑自己感染了致命的疾病。
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