2020年2月21日 星期五

quandary, eradicate, wipe sth out, phenomenally, annoying, Malaria


Chinese ambassador to Russia says Covid-19, which has claimed more than 2,200 lives, will be eradicated in a month’s time as his country claims it will ‘win a complete victory’. 

Malaria still kills around 400,000 people a year. Efforts to eradicate the disease have stalled because of its ability to resist drugs—but pioneering gene-editing technology could change that https://econ.st/3914ka6


Researching Mosquito Romance for Eradication Purposes

Mosquitoes are not only phenomenally annoying, they are also dangerous
disease carriers.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew03c0I44va89pI1



$635 Million Pledged in Effort to Wipe Out Polio
The governments of Germany and the U.K. and charities including the Gates Foundation pledged $635 million toward eradicating polio.



Dr. Brilliant, who moved to an ashram in northern India in the 1970s and went on to play a major role in eradicating smallpox in the country, likened his moral quandary in figuring out how to spend Google.org’s money to that faced by a saint wandering the streets of Benares.


wipe sth out (DESTROY) phrasal verb [M]
to destroy something completely:
Whole villages were wiped out in the fighting.
One bad harvest could wipe out all of a grower's profits for the previous two years.



eradicate
verb [T] FORMAL
to get rid of completely or destroy something bad:
The government claims to be doing all it can to eradicate corruption.
The disease which once claimed millions of lives has now been eradicated.

eradication
noun [U]

quandary

noun [C usually singular] ━━ n. 困惑; 苦境.
a state of not being able to decide what to do about a situation in which you are involved:
I've had two job offers, and I'm in a real quandary about/over which one to accept.

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