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究竟跟「Bear Hunt」獵捕小熊有何關係?
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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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A. stop / contract
B. standstill / contracted
C. Kiwiland / kiwifruit
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但新冠疫情的衝擊其實才剛要開始?
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🔥 Coronavirus Ravages China’s Economy—and It’s Just Getting Started
病毒重創中國經濟 但災難才正要開始?
-ravage 嚴重破壞
🧐 Since the Cultural Revolution ended in the mid-1970s, China’s economy, fueled by market reforms, has notched up more than four decades of unbroken gains, enlarging the domestic economy by roughly a hundredfold and transforming the world.
自1970年代中期文化大革命結束以來,在市場改革的推動下,中國經濟40多年來持續增長,國內經濟規模擴大了近100倍,也改變了世界。
-fuel 當名詞時是燃料,這裡則是動詞的「為⋯所刺激、推動」之意
-notch up 取得、獲得
-enlarge 使⋯增大/擴大
-hundredfold 一百倍的
😯That winning streak is over. China on Friday reported a 6.8% year-over-year contraction in its economy for the first three months of the year—the first quarterly decline in gross domestic product since official record-keeping began in 1992 and likely the first since Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, economists said.
這種不間斷的增長勢頭已經結束,中國17日公布,今年前三個月國內生產總值(GDP)較上年同期收縮6.8%。經濟學家表示,這是自1992年有官方記錄以來季度GDP首次下滑,可能也是自1976年毛澤東去世以來首次下降。
-streak 一陣好運,在這指的是經濟的不斷增長
-contraction 收縮
✍️通貨「緊縮」是deflation,不一樣喔
-gross domestic product 國內生產總值 (GDP)
🙈The fall was even steeper compared with the previous quarter: a 9.8% pullback as the coronavirus that first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan spread across the country and around the world, delivering an economic blow unprecedented in modern times.
第一季度GDP環比降幅則更大,達到9.8%,最初出現在武漢的冠狀病毒在中國乃至世界各地蔓延,為經濟帶來近代前所未有的打擊。
-emerge 出現,浮現
-blow 重擊
-unprecedented 史無前例、前所未有的
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❓Quiz: Allen Luo, an exporter of floor tiles in southern Guangdong province, said he wasn’t too affected by the __ domestic shutdown, but the global spread of the coronavirus “is a death __ to us.”
廣東省的地磚出口商Allen Luo表示,國內前所未有的停工並沒有讓他受到太大影響,但疫情的全球傳播卻帶來致命打擊。
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A. unprepared/block
B. uber/ bubble tea
C. unprecedented/ blow
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病毒表示:現在當我是塑膠囉?
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🔎New Data Suggest the Coronavirus Isn’t as Deadly as We Thought
新數據指出新冠病毒其實不如我們想的那麼致命
🔎A study finds 50 to 85 times as many infections as known cases—meaning a far lower fatality rate.
一項研究發現感染人數應為已知的50至85倍,意味者死亡率很低
-fatality rate: 死亡率
📖The Covid-19 shutdowns have been based on the premise that the disease would kill more than two million Americans absent drastic actions to slow its spread. That model assumed case fatality rates—the share of infected people who die from the disease—of 1% to 3%. The World Health Organization’s estimated case-fatality rate was 3.4%.
因新冠病毒而採取封城措施的前提是,若不採取有力的措施來延緩疫情蔓延,至少兩百萬個美國人會因此喪命,該模型預測的死亡率(感染病毒並因此喪生者)為1%至3%,世界衛生組織的預估死亡率則為3.4%。
-premise: 前提
-estimated: 估計的
📖A preliminary study by a Stanford team, released Friday. They conducted a seroprevalence study of Santa Clara County, Calif., on April 3 and 4. They studied a representative sample of 3,300 residents to test for the presence of antibodies in their blood that would show if they had previously been infected with the novel coronavirus.
史丹佛大學一研究小組週五發佈一項初步研究報告,該小組於4/3與4/4在加州的Santa Clara進行了血清陽性比例研究,他們採檢了當地3300位樣本居民的血液,藉此檢測血液當中是否存在抗體,抗體的存在可以證明他們過去是否已感染新冠病毒。
- preliminary: 初步的
-seroprevalence: 複合字,sero+prevalence血清盛行率或血清陽性比
-antibody: 抗體
🔬The researchers found that the percentage of infections was indeed vastly larger than the roughly 1,000 known positive cases in the county at the time of the study. The preliminary results—the research will now undergo peer review—show that between 2.5% and 4.2% of county residents are estimated to have antibodies against the virus. That translates into 48,000 to 81,000 infections, 50 to 85 times as high as the number of known cases.
研究人員發現在此研究進行時,該縣(Santa Clara)之感染數確實遠大於當時已知的約千例確診病例,初步結果顯示當地縣民估計有2.5%至4.5%的人已具有新冠病毒的抗體,意味者感染數約為48000至81000人,為已知病例的50至85倍,此研究結果也將開始接受同儕評閱。
*當地約兩百萬人口
*同儕評閱(peer review):此為一專有名詞,經查為期刊出版的一種決策制度,為的是管控期刊品質與學術價值,主要由具同類學術背景的同儕或同業來進行,目的非為審核,而是希望研究可以在同儕間取得認同並得到專業交流之修正與意見。
可見此連結:http://terms.naer.edu.tw/detail/1678909/
-vastly: 非常、極大地
-undergo: 經歷、承受
❓Quiz: The country had just ___ a drastic pandemic which caused an ___ death toll of 50 thousand. 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏼♀️💁
該國家剛經歷一場慘烈的疫情,該疫情導致約五萬人死亡。
A. undergo, estimate
B. underwent, intimate
C. undergone, estimated
D. Winnie the Pooh, Tigger
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