【焦點美語：「登革熱」英文怎麼講？】
因為一直上新聞，很多人問我。登革熱就是 dengue fever.
發音有一點特別，就是 / 'deŋ gi /
句子簡單：
He has dengue fever.
(他有登革熱。)
Twenty people contracted dengue fever in Tainan yesterday.
(昨天在台南 20 個人患了登革熱。--- “Contract” 記不起來的話，也可以用“get”代替.)
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一些相關的詞：
[疫情] outbreak (小、中規模) 或 epidemic (大規模)。目前台灣的情況還算 outbreak.
→ I hope we can control the outbreak.
(我希望我們可以控制疫情。)
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[蔓延] spread
→ Unfortunately, it has already spread widely.
(很不幸，疾病已經蔓延開了。)
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[病例] case
→ There have already been several thousand cases in Taiwan.
(全台有幾千病例。)
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[疑似 & 確定] suspected & confirmed
→ There were 31 suspected cases and 10 confirmed cases.
(「疑似」有31例，「確定」有10例。)
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[疾管署] CDC (Centers for Disease Control 的縮寫)
→ CDC Director-General Steve Kuo said that the situation is not too serious.
(疾管署長郭旭崧今天說情況沒那麼嚴重。)
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好了，朋友們，好好的保重！
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