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No. 71

Medical Service

1.At present, we don’t have a clear diagnosis for you. We first need to do a few tests, and when we get the results back we will be able to make a diagnosis.

现在还不确定您的病，我们需要先进行检查，化验结果出来后才能确诊。

2. Your condition requires hospitalization.

您的病情需要进行住院治疗。

3. Please don't worry. It is nothing serious.

请不要担心，情况不严重。

Traditional Chinese medicine

For vomiting occuring immediately after eating, Dahuang Gancao Tang (Rhubarb and Licorice Decoction) governs.

食已即吐者，大黄甘草汤主之。

Story Show

（3-2）

1、wrist n.手腕;腕关节

2、take a puff 吸口烟

3、tip n. 尖端;尖儿

4、index finger 食指

5、thumb n.拇指;(手套的)拇指部分；v.翻阅；以拇指拨弄；作搭车手势

6、Decaf n.低咖(脱咖啡因咖啡)

（3-3）

1、go through 经历，经受; 翻阅

2、minion n.下属;小卒;杂役

3、 let's say比如说；假设

4、karmic 因果报应

5、shrug v.耸肩(表示不知道或不在乎)

6、nonchalantly adv.不高兴地，冷淡地，漠不关心地，漫不经心的

7、exhale v.呼出，吐出(肺中的空气、烟等);呼气

8、hold on a second 稍等一下

9、put out 熄灭；伸出；出版；使不方便；打扰

10、figure out 解决；算出；想出；理解；断定

World Insight

Fauci says Covid-19 vaccine may not get US to herd immunity if too many people refuse to get it

Updated June 28, 2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he would "settle" for a Covid-19 vaccine that's 70% to 75% effective, but that this incomplete protection, coupled with the fact that many Americans say they won't get a coronavirus vaccine, makes it "unlikely" that the US will achieve sufficient levels of immunity to quell the outbreak.

安东尼·福奇（Anthony Fauci）博士表示，能研发出有效率在70%到75%的新冠肺炎疫苗他就“满足”了。但这种疫苗提供的保护是不完整的，加上许多美国人不愿接种新冠病毒疫苗的事实，使得美国“不太可能”获得足够的免疫力来平息疫情。

With government support, three coronavirus vaccines are expected to be studied in large-scale clinical trials in the next three months.

在政府的支持下，三种冠状病毒疫苗有望在未来三个月内进行大规模临床试验。

"The best we've ever done is measles, which is 97 to 98 percent effective," said Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "That would be wonderful if we get there. I don't think we will. I would settle for a 70, 75% effective vaccine."

“我们研发的最高效的是麻疹疫苗，它的有效率为97%到98%，”美国国家过敏和传染病研究所所长福奇（Fauci）说，“如果我们能达到那样的有效率就太好了。但我认为达不到，我能接受有效率70.75%的疫苗。”

A CNN poll last month found one-third of Americans said they would not try to get vaccinated against Covid, even if the vaccine is widely available and low cost.

CNN上个月的一项民意调查发现，三分之一的美国人表示，即使新冠肺炎疫苗广泛可用且价格低廉，他们也不会尝试接种。

In an interview Friday, CNN asked Fauci whether a vaccine with 70% to 75% efficacy taken by only two-thirds of the population would provide herd immunity to the coronavirus.

在上周五的一次采访中，CNN记者询问福奇（Fauci），有效率在70%到75%之间，且只有三分之二的人口接种的疫苗，能否能提供对冠状病毒的群体免疫力。

"No -- unlikely," he answered.

“不—不太可能，”他回答到。

Herd immunity is when a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease, either through prior illness or vaccination, so that spread from person to person unlikely.

群体免疫是指通过先前的感染或接种疫苗，人群中有足够比例的人对传染病具有免疫力，因此，这种传染病不太可能在人与人之间传播。

Source: CNN

重点词汇（Vocabulary）

1、occur [əˈkɜːr] v.发生;出现;存在于;出现在

2、quell [kwel] v. 平息

3、vaccinate [ˈvæksɪneɪt] v. 给…接种疫苗

4、herd immunity 群体免疫

5、prior [ˈpraɪər] adj. 先前的

6、allergy [ˈælərdʒi] n. 过敏反应

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