干货 | 医博英语考试写作核心词汇精简版

小白老师2016/01/05英语学习

摘要: 医博英语考试写作核心词汇精简版是一份针对医学博士英语考试中高频写作主题整理的专业术语与表达汇总,涵盖公共卫生、疾病防控、医疗体系及伦理等关键领域。

  • 掌握下降/上升、传染/传播、预防/应急等对比性动词对提升写作准确性至关重要。
  • 禽流感、人畜共患病、流行性出血热等专业病名需使用标准英文术语。
  • 涉及民生、城乡卫生体系、医疗改革等内容时,应使用如“people’s well-being”“urban-rural medical system”等规范表达。
  • 道德相关词汇(morals, morality, ethics)在语境中有明确区分,不可混用。
  • 死亡统计、疫情爆发、传播途径等公共卫生表述需符合国际通用说法,如“death toll”“route of transmission”

小白老师说:不多说了,下面这些词必须会。

1. 下降、减少 reduction,decrease,decline,diminution, drop,descend,go / come down,fall

上升、增加 rise; go up; ascend;increase

2. 禽流感 H1N1 flu bird flu/avian flu

食品安全 food safety;

3. 公共卫生突发事件 public health emergencies

应急反应 immediate response to

4. 关注民生 concern (focus on, pay attention to) people’s livelihood / well-being

5. 城乡卫生体系 urban-rural medical and health system

6. 预防保健 disease prevention and health care

服务体系service system

7. 讲究卫生 pay attention to hygiene

个人和环境卫生 personal and environmental hygiene

8. protein-complemented diet 蛋白添加饮食

9. preventive initiatives=preventive measures预防的措施

10. 人畜共患病zoonosis=anthropozoonosis 人兽共患病

11. 虫媒insect pollination

虫媒传染病insect-borne /arthropod-borne infectious disease

12. 肾病综合征 nephrotic/renal syndrome

13. 流行性出血热 epidemic hemorrhagic fever

14. 爆发流行 break out, explode; an epidemic outbreak of, explosion

15. 传染 infect / infection / infectious, communicate / communicable, contagion / contagious, transmission / transmittable

communicable 可传达的, 会传染的, 有传染性的

communicative 健谈的, 爱说话的, 交际的

16. 传播途径route of transmission, bird flu transmits by air/wind;person to person transmission

17. 传播,散布 diffuse,prevalence,spread,transmit,disseminate,propagate/ propagation

18. 污染 pollution/ pollute,contamination/contaminate

19. 福祉 well-being, happiness;

20. 衰老grow old;aging;consenescence;senility;senile

21. 每况愈下from bad to worse

purulent 脓的,化脓的

22. 脂肪肝fatty liver; 血压 hypertension

23. 肠癌Cancer of Rectum and Colon; 亚健康 sub-health

24. 过劳死 karoshi; death from overwork

25. 长期以来 for a long time ; over the years

26. 养生preserve one’s health; nourishing of life; keep in good health

27. 分类 be divided into;fall into three categories;be grouped according to their origin / into three classes; be categorized according to / be roughly classified into three kinds

28. 基本职责 basic / fundamental / essential / elementary duties / responsibilities / obligations

基本原则 fundamental principle/ rule, basic rule or principle

29. morals,morality,ethics均含“道德”之意。morals多用于实践方面,指按习惯或社会公认的道德标准,尤指男女之间关系的道德。morality指符合道德标准的行为,或用道德标准衡量某事,既指社会的又指个人的道德。ethics多用于伦理方面,指符合于伦理学中所指的好的行为,常指公平正真地对人对事的品德。

30. 民众the (general) public,the masses of the people,the common people;

合作者co-worker; collaborator; copartner; coagent

31. 死亡人数death toll,deaths,the number of people killed in / dying from

The death toll is expected to rise. The death toll continues to rise.

There have been more deaths from drowning.

How much is the death toll? 死亡人数是多少?

32. 归结为 boil down to;come down to

归因为 / 归功于 be attributable to; be attributed to; ascribe or attribute… to; owe…to

归咎于lay or put the blame on sb; blame…on; ascribe or attribute… to; impute… to

33. 大规模on a large scale; extensive; large-scale; massive

大规模流行 large-scale transmission,become a pandemic,massive attack / outbreak

34. 表面上on the surface, apparently, ostensibly, superficial, seemingly

因果关系 cause-and-effect relationship, causal relationship/relations

孤立现象an isolated phenomenon

复杂的complicated,complex,sophisticated,intricate

极端复杂性extreme/ exceeding complexity/complicacy

35. 低保basic living allowances/subsistence allowances

养老保险 endowment insurance

退休养老金 retirement pension

医疗改革 health care reform

36. 激烈运动strenuous exercise;vigorous activity

37. 月经期menstrual period

38. 生活的节奏the tempo/the pace of life; a life of quick /fast pace

39. 婴幼儿保健the infant health care

40. 安乐死euthanasia

41. 得绝症的terminally ill

42. 临终关怀 hospice care; end-of-life care

濒临死亡的病人 dying patients,terminally ill patients,incurable patient

43. 二手烟 secondhand smoking ,also called “involuntary smoking” or “passive smoking”.

常见问题

医博英语写作中如何准确表达“减少”和“增加”?

可使用 reduction, decrease, decline 表示减少;rise, increase, go up 表示增加,注意语体正式程度差异。

“禽流感”和“人畜共患病”的标准英文是什么?

禽流感为 bird flu 或 avian flu;人畜共患病为 zoonosis 或 anthropozoonosis。

如何区分 morals、morality 和 ethics?

morals 强调实践中的行为规范(尤指两性关系);morality 指符合社会或个人道德标准的行为;ethics 侧重伦理学意义上的公正品德。

公共卫生突发事件相关英文表达有哪些?

常用表达包括 public health emergencies、immediate response to、large-scale outbreak、death toll、route of transmission 等。

参考资料

医博英语考试大纲与写作要求

国内医学博士英语考试官方指导文件,强调专业术语准确性

WHO 术语库(IRIS)

世界卫生组织官方术语资源,可用于验证公共卫生类英文表达

Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

权威医学词典,适用于核实如 nephrotic syndrome、zoonosis 等术语