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• intensive care 重症监护

  • ICU intensive care unit

• therapeutic /ˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk/

  • 1）表示“治疗的；医疗的；治病的”，英文解释为“designed to help treat an illness”，如：the therapeutic properties of herbs 草药的医疗效用；

  • 2）表示“有助于放松精神的；有益于健康的”，英文解释为“helping you to relax”举个🌰：

    • Painting can be very therapeutic.
    • 绘画可以使人很放松

• game-changer

  • 1）表示“在很大程度上改变形势（或商业领域）的产品（或事件）”，英文解释为“something such as a product or event that affects a situation or area of business very much”举个🌰：

    • The hit show has been a game changer for the network.
    • 这一热门节目很大程度上改变了这家电视网络。

  • 2）表示“在很大程度上改变一场比赛结果的人（或事）”，英文解释为“something or someone that affects the result of a game very much”举个🌰：

    • As a player he can be a game changer.
    • 作为队员他可以是一名改变比赛结果的人

• heap sth on sb

  • 表示“对（某人）大加（赞扬、批评等）”，英文解释为“to give someone a lot of praise, criticism, etc.”举个🌰：
    • He deals well with all the criticism heaped on him.
    • 对于针对他的一大堆批评，他应对得很好。

• ride sth out

  • 表示“克服困难；安然渡过（难关）”，英文解释为“to continue to exist during a difficult situation and until it ends, without serious harm”举个🌰：
    • Many companies did not manage to ride out the storm.
    • 许多公司没能渡过这一风暴。

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• be admitted to intensive care这个搭配可能有些陌生。admit在这里表示to take sb to a hospital, or other institution where they can receive special care接收入院；收治。经常的搭配是admit sb to/into a hospital。来看一个句子，Two crash victims were admitted to the local hospital. 两位车祸受害者已送进当地医院。

  • hospitalise的意思是If someone is hospitalized, they are sent or admitted to hospital使住院，送…入院，经常用作被动形式be hospitalised。
  • 住院 be hospitalized/need hospital care
    （治愈）出院 be discharged from hospital after recovery

• with covid-19中的介词with也来关注一下，with在这里表示because of a particular feeling or physical state由于〔某种感情或身体状况〕，比如，They were trembling with fear.他们吓得发抖。Mother became seriously ill with pneumonia.母亲得了肺炎，病得很重

• stand in (for sb)意思是to take sb's place代替，顶替(某人)，比如，My assistant will stand in for me while I'm away. 我不在期间，由我的助手代替我。

  • 加个连字符后，stand-in表示someone who does the job or takes the place of someone else for a short time〔职位或工作的〕临时替代者，比如，Gilbert failed to find a stand-in and so could not go to the party.吉尔伯特找不到人临时替他，因此无法参加派对。
  • 电影中的替身也是stand-in。
  • deputise这里和stand in就是同义词了，很多相关报道中都用到了这个词，表示 to do sth that sb in a higher position than you would usually do担任代表；充当代理人，比如，Ms Green has asked me to deputize for her at the meeting. 格林女士请我代表她出席会议。

• seclusion和前面一点的isolation是一个意思，具体的解释是the state of being private and away from other people与世隔绝，隐居。

  • 我们可以用它形容“静”，在散文，景观描写中尝试用它。先记住一个短语in seclusion，He preferred to stay at home in seclusion.他更喜欢安安静静地在家里呆着。

  • 描写景色：They love the seclusion of their garden.他们喜欢自家花园的幽静。

• the novel coronavirus can strike anyone中strike是攻击，袭击的意思，偏抽象的袭击。意思很好理解，我们再深挖一下。比如说某某染上了新冠病毒，可以用新冠病毒做主语，用strike做谓语动词，变身成the novel coronavirus struck sb

• 表示“染上疾病”，可以用高中时候学过的词组pick up，也可以用catch，比如catch a cold患感冒。develop也不总表示积极含义，它也能表示患病，develop asthma患哮喘，develop lung cancer患肺癌。

  • contract也是可以的，contract AIDS染上艾滋。还有succumb to sth，succumbing to a preventable infection染上/死于...可防御的感染。

• unsettle很常见，意思是to make sb feel upset or worried, especially because a situation has changed使心神不宁；扰乱；使担忧。和trouble, worry, bother意思很相近。但是用unsettle语言就明显升级不少。比如，使全球经济摇摆不定，unsettle global economy。

  • 形容词形式unsettling也时常出现，比如经济学人上的这句话，Letting crowds of colleagues and acquaintances peer into your life can be unsettling, but it has one advantage: it opens up new opportunities for oneupmanship.让一大群同事和熟人窥视你的生活可能会让你感到不安，但它有一个好处:它为你的高人一筹开辟了新的机会。

• setting the policy制定政策，这里的set具体意思是to arrange or fix sth; to decide on sth安排；确定；决定，比如The government has set strict limits on public spending this year. 今年，政府对公共开支规定了严格的限额。

• In safe hands表示在可靠的人手中，He retired feeling confident that his company was in safe hands. 他退休时觉得自己的公司已托付给了可靠的人。

• take sth forward可以代替boost sth。

• face criticism翻译的时候不要翻译成面临批评，因为中文不这么说，翻译成受到批评。
  [拓展]表示受到批评, 沦为众矢之的，被喷成了筛子还可以有这些动词搭配，come under, invite, attract, meet with criticism, be the target of criticism, come under fire。

• paucity: a/the paucity of

  • absence of; a dearth of; deprived of

• take hold

  • take hold

• in common with / like 与...一样

  • 表示 in the same way as sb / sth与…相同，比如，Britain, in common with many other industrialized countries, has experienced major changes over the last 100 years. 与许多其他工业化国家一样，英国在过去 100 年里经历了重大的变化。

• alike / both...and...

  • 比如这句本来可以说成from both allies and rivals。但是现在用alike, from allies and rivals alike。