Countries must trade-off between the human and economic costs of the virus, and the damage caused by containment measures
In the “Struggle” paintings Lawrence revisited the events that Americans consider part of their country’s origin story
2014
W.H.O. Raises Alert Level as Flu Spreads to 74 Countries
The organization declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years, but an official noted that the pandemic is “moderate” in severity and that scientists ...
考丁力強調，“大流行”的說法只是衡量病毒的蔓延程度而非嚴重性。這種病毒的影響目前較為溫和，但還是會傳染很多人。
Mexico takes new swine flu precautions as pandemic concerns spread
Study Shows Why the Flu Likes Winter
By GINA KOLATA
Researchers in New York believe they have solved one of the great mysteries of the flu: Why does the infection spread primarily in the winter months?
As pot entrepreneurs face the thrilling prospect of normality, start-ups are spreading like weeds
- ‘Later on, in class, the actual map and the historical map are merged with the landmarks the students defined on their field trip.’
NOUN
informal- [mass noun] Cannabis:‘we smoked pot at football games’
Origin
1930s: probably from Mexican Spanish potiguaya cannabis leaves.
- pot (or crock) of gold
- A large but distant or imaginary reward:‘the prospect of a pot of gold when the statue was sold’
weed
1.2informal [mass noun] Cannabis.
spread
/sprɛd/
verb
- 1.open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length."I spread a towel on the sand and sat down"
- 2.extend over a large or increasing area."rain over north-west Scotland will spread south-east during the day"
noun
- 1.the fact or process of spreading over an area."warmer temperatures could help reduce the spread of the disease"
spread like wildfire
PHRASE
- Spread with great speed:‘the news had spread like wildfire’
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