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刚才我们提到freak这个词,有一种人是Germ Freak, Germ, 就是细菌的意思,所以,Germ Freak, 就是那些特别怕沾到细菌的人。比如,有些妈妈就老担心孩子会因为沾到细菌而生病,她们就是germ freak。你可以说她们偏执,但要是遇上流感季节,那她们的小心谨慎也就可以理解了。说到流感,我们来听听下面这段话:
例句-2:Doctors encouraged everyone to get vaccinated last year. Their fear was that a powerful strain of flu could make a lot of people very sick. They compared it to the flu of 1918, which struck with a vengeance. In just a few years, it was responsible for between 50 and 100 million deaths around the world.
这段话意思是:去年,医生们鼓励所有人都去接种流感疫苗。他们害怕一种强大的流感病毒会让很多人生病。他们把这种病毒跟破坏力极强的1918年大流感相比,全世界有五千万到一亿人死于那次的流感。
1918年那场流感真的很可怕,据说一个人早上起来还好好的,忽然咳血,晚上就死了。幸好我们现在对流感的认识比那时候深入多了,疫苗也很普及,可以作到有备无患。
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