2020年2月7日 星期五

pathogen, joss, fugitive, murderer, emphasizing the depth of a worsening crisis

AFP Facebook Cover photo: Medical staff hug each other in an isolation ward at a hospital in Zouping, China.
A Chinese doctor, among the first to raise the alert about China's new coronavirus, has died from the pathogen, emphasizing the depth of a worsening crisis that has killed at least 630 people







Yes, and you hear that here as well. People erupt with a kind of anger and exasperation over how it was that this dangerous pathogen was among them but they didn’t understand, in many cases, how serious it was or what was going on until the city was shut down.

A Hijacker, a Longtime Fugitive and, Now, a Prisoner

By JAMES BARRON
George Wright, a convicted murderer who was among a group of hijackers who got away with $1 million in 1972, was finally taken into custody in Portugal on Monday.


Hong Kong may be part of China, but it won't turn over fugitives. That may soon change.


pathogen とは【意味】病原体... 【例文】a pathogen called simple herpes virus... 

fugitive
/ˈfjuːdʒɪtɪv/
noun
  1. 1.
    a person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding.

    "fugitives from justice"
    synonyms:escapee, escaper, runawaydeserterrefugeerenegade, absconder;
    archaicrunagate
    "he is a hunted fugitive"
adjective
  1. 1.
    quick to disappear; fleeting.

    "the fugitive effects of light"


joss
(jŏs) pronunciation
n.
A Chinese image in a shrine.

[Pidgin English, from Javanese deyos, from Portuguese deos, god, from Latin deus.]

  • 発音記号[dʒɑ's | dʒɔ's]
[名](中国人の祭る)神像, 偶像
a joss house
(中国の)寺院, 廟堂(びょうどう)
a joss stick
線香.

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