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⏳Coronavirus Vaccine Front-Runners Emerge, Rollouts Weighed
新冠疫苗領航員浮現,藥廠與政府如何規劃生產分配?
-front-runner 領先者、領跑者
-emerge 出現、浮出水面,同 come out
-roll out 當動詞時有「開展、啟動、推出」的意思,此處作為名詞 rollout,指「生產分配(計畫)」
💉 Governments and drugmakers are weighing how to roll out coronavirus vaccines, including reserving the first batches for health-care workers, as several shots race to early leads.
在新冠疫苗競賽湧現出若干潛在領航員之際,一些政府部門和製藥商正謀劃如何推出新冠疫苗,包括為醫護人員預留第一批疫苗。
-weigh 字面意思為「秤重」,衍生為「謀劃、權衡、斟酌」的意思
✍️常見用法:weigh in on sth 提出對(某事)的看法
-batch 一批
-leads 領先者、領跑者
✍️常見用法: in the lead 指「處於領先地位」;在商業語境中 lead 還有「機遇、機會、潛在客戶」的意思
🧪 A safe and effective vaccine is the best way to prevent Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, and to curb its transmission, public-health officials say. Drugmakers say they are developing potential coronavirus vaccines at remarkably fast speeds.
Yet there isn’t a guarantee that any of the most advanced vaccine candidates will prove to work safely on such a short timetable. Some, like vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, are based on relatively new technologies that haven’t been approved previously.
公共衛生官員稱,安全有效的疫苗是預防新冠肺炎以及遏制新冠疫情擴散的最佳手段。新冠肺炎是新冠病毒引起的呼吸道疾病。製藥商表示正以驚人速度開發疫苗。然而,在這麼短的周期內,任何一種最先進的候選疫苗都不能保證可以證明是安全的。與輝瑞(Pfizer)和Moderna的疫苗相同,有些疫苗是採用之前未被批準的、相對比較新的技術所研發而成。
-curb 遏制、抑制,同 limit, restrict
✍️常見用法: put a curb on sth 限制、約束某事
-guarantee 保證、擔保
-timetable 計畫週期、時間表
🎖Several drugmakers that have been building up their capabilities to make coronavirus vaccines, have promised to make hundreds of millions of doses this year. Yet a fuller supply to vaccinate the general population might not become available until well into 2021, according to company projections and estimates by vaccine experts. Public-health officials and vaccine experts hope more than one vaccine will cross the finish line, to boost the total number of doses available.
幾家已經在提升新冠疫苗生產能力的製藥企業承諾,今年生產的疫苗劑量將以百萬支來計算。但根據藥廠和疫苗專家的估測,可能要到2021年才能為一般民眾提供更充足的疫苗供應。公共衛生部門的官員和疫苗專家希望,可以同時有多種疫苗獲得批准,這樣就能增加可使用的疫苗總劑量。
-build up 提升、構築
-capacity 生產能力
-full supply 充分供給
-cross the finish line 字面意思是「通過終點線」,在此表示「(疫苗)獲得批准」
未完待續...
新獲批准的疫苗該如何分配,
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Johnson & Johnson expects to have some batches of its vaccine ready ___ early 2021, which Chief Scientific Officer Paul Stoffels said should be _______ to vaccinate health-care workers globally. The company expects to eventually make more than a billion doses.
嬌生公司預計在2021年初之前可望生產數批疫苗。該公司首席科學總監史多福(Paul Stoffels)表示,這些疫苗應該足夠全球醫護工作者接種。該公司預計最終將生產超過10億支疫苗。
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B. by / sufficient
C. in / effective
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【8個未收錄在字典的實用單字!你聽過幾個?】
語言學家認為語言會隨著社會演變而演化,這包括因為新科技發明而創造的詞彙,如臉書的 “unfriend”「刪除好友」功能,還有bitcoin, AR, VR 等專有名詞。
另外也有因應新的概念或用法而被重新組合、約定成俗的詞、流行用語等。
今天我們整理了8個最新潮的實用單字,快來看看吧!
➤ Hangry (adj.): hungry + angry
飢餓+生氣=餓到爆氣
The state of being in a bad mood/angry as a result of being hungry.
|例句|
Working long hours under high pressure, health workers could be hangry sometimes.
長時在高壓環境下工作,醫護人員難免會因捱餓而心情不好。
➤ Textpectation (n.): text + expectation
簡訊+期待=期待收到對方回覆的心情
The anticipation felt when waiting for a response or a text.
|例句|
In this life of quarantine, my textpectation has grown; I would be thrilled to receive any message, even bill notification.
隔離生活讓我更期待收到訊息,就算只是收到帳單通知也可以讓我很興奮。
➤ Ear-worm (n.):
住在耳朵中的蟲,比喻餘音繞樑的燒腦神曲
A song/melody/tune stuck in your head/ear.
|例句|
Youtuber Chris Mann's quarantine-style adaptation of Adele's 〈Hello〉 has become a phenomenal ear-worm.
網紅 Chris Mann 改編 Adele 的名曲〈Hello〉,成了最新防疫燒腦神曲。
➤ Suckrifice (n.): suck + sacrifice
爛透了+犧牲=我不入地獄誰入地獄
Doing what you absolutely must do, even though you really, really hate it.
|例句|
Since no one was willing to take the job, I had to make the suckcrifice.
這份苦差事沒人願意做,我只好自己扛下來。
➤ Nonversation (n.): none + conversation
虛無+對話=雞同鴨講,無意義的對話
A completely meaningless or useless conversation.
|例句|
We expect to see professional discussion at the conference, not some evasive, politically-correct nonversation.
我們希望大會中進行的是專業的討論,而非含糊其辭、講求政治正確的廢話。
➤ Clusterfuckery (n.):
叢集+幹事=一團糟,徹底失控
The result of a clusterfuck; an unmanageable mess that makes one experience a rage blackout.
|例句|
Due to its quick response to the disease, Taiwanese government succeeds in avoiding the clusterfuckery that occurs in many other countries.
臺灣政府對疾病迅速作出回應,才得以順利避免疫情惡化失控。
➤ Presstitute (n.): press + prostitute
妓者(有偏見的媒體記者)
A biased or one-sided journalist.
|例句|
The presstitute’s article was full of misinformation and smearing about the candidate.
這名妓者的文章中充滿對候選人的錯誤資訊和造謠抹黑。
➤ Blamestorming (v.): blame + storm
brainstorm的諧音,尋找代罪羔羊,卻不思考問題解決之道
The act of attempting to identify the person who is most at fault for a plan’s failure.
|例句|
Mass media is blamestorming Dr. Tedros for WHO’s passive response to the virus and withholding crucial information.
世界衛生組織遭批評防疫態度消極且並未即時公開資訊,譚德塞成為眾矢之的。
來源|The Language Nerds
整理|有事旁編喬 @強尼金口筆譯教學日記
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Food idioms Part 1
🇺🇸美國生活用語~水果篇🍎
蘋果有好有壞,你知道bad apple是什麼意思嗎?可不是白雪公主吃了昏去的那顆毒蘋果喔~
Because food plays such an important role in people’s lives, it’s only natural that it would make its way into commonly used idioms. Everybody loves fruit, so let’s start with fruit-related idioms!
Apples are probably the most common fruit in the English-speaking world, so there are plenty of apple-related expressions. One of the oldest, which can be found in Shakespeare, and even the Bible, 🍎is “apple of one’s eye,” which means “sb. very precious or dear.” Ex: Bill’s daughter is the apple of his eye. And because apple pie is the classic American dessert, 🍎 “as American as apple pie” is used to describe things that are typically American. Ex: Blue jeans are as American as apple pie.
But not all apples are good. The expression 🍏 “bad apple” comes from the old saying: “One bad apple spoils the barrel,” which means it only takes one bad person to ruin a group or project. Ex: There’s always a bad apple at every workplace. The apples in the following expression can be either good or bad: 🍏 “The apple never falls far from the tree,” which means that, for better or worse, children often have the same traits as their parents. Ex: Kim is a talented musician just like her father, so I guess the apple never falls far from the tree.
【✍關鍵單字】
1. make one’s way (to/into):本意為「前進」,也可作為譬喻用法,指「有所進步、進展」,或是「取得成功」。
2. precious:「珍貴的」
3. One bad apple spoils the barrel. spoil指「糟蹋、毀掉」,barrel指「釀酒桶」,整句原意是一顆壞掉的蘋果就會破壞整桶酒的風味,對應到中文就是「一顆老鼠屎,壞了一鍋粥」。
【📕中譯】
食物是生活不可或缺,因此自然會有許多從食物衍生出的用語。而每個人都喜歡吃水果,我們就先來聊聊與水果相關的諺語。
蘋果大概是英語系國家最常見的水果,因此英語中有一大票跟蘋果相關的諺語。其中一個可追溯到莎士比亞時期、甚至在聖經中就出現的古老用法是:apple of one’s eye「眼裡的西施」,指「相當珍貴的人」。例如:Bill’s daughter is the apple of his eye.(女兒是比爾眼中的寶貝。)此外,由於蘋果派是經典的美國點心,所以as American as apple pie「(像蘋果派)具美國特色的」這個片語可以用來敘述任何一想到美國就會想起的事物,如:Blue jeans are as American as apple pie.(牛仔褲是典型美國事物。)
不過,可不是每顆蘋果都是好蘋果呦。bad apple一詞來自於古老俗語One bad apple spoils the barrel.(一顆老鼠屎,壞了一鍋粥。)指團隊中只要有一個害群之馬就會壞事。如:There’s always a bad apple at every workplace.(每個職場中都會有顆老鼠屎。)接著要介紹的這顆蘋果則是可好可壞:the apple never falls far from the tree「掉落的蘋果必離樹不遠;有其父必有其子,或上樑不正下樑歪」,這句話可以用來稱讚或貶低某人,如:Kim is a talented musician just like her father, so I guess the apple never falls far from the tree.(金跟她爸一樣,是個天才音樂家,我想這就是有其父必有其女。)
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