2009年第一次英譯中翻譯比賽參賽題目 - 翻譯

公告日期：2009.05.01
公告主旨：公布二ＯＯ九年第一次英譯中翻譯比賽題目
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　領　　域：新聞
主　　題：新型 H1N1 流感
資料來源：CNN
原文字數：約五百字（含標點符號）
原文網址：http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/30/swine.flu.1918.lessons/

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原文題目：Scientists dig for lessons from past pandemics

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　原　文：

If there's a blessing in the current swine flu epidemic, it's how benign
the illness seems to be outside the central disease cluster in Mexico.
But history offers a dark warning to anyone ready to write off the 2009
H1N1 virus.

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　In each of the four major pandemics since 1889, a spring wave of relatively
　mild illness was followed by a second wave, a few months later, of a much
　more virulent disease. This was true in 1889, 1957, 1968 and in the
　catastrophic flu outbreak of 1918, which sickened an estimated third of
　the world's population and killed, conservatively, 50 million people.

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　Lone Simonson, an epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health,
　who has studied the course of prior pandemics in both the United States
　and her native Denmark, says, "The good news from past pandemics,
　in several experiences, is that the majority of deaths have happened not
　in the first wave, but later." Based on this, Simonson suggests there may
　be time to develop an effective vaccine before a second, more virulent
　strain, begins to circulate.

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　As swine flu -- also known as the 2009 version of the H1N1 flu strain --
　spreads, Simonson and other health experts are diving into the history
　books for clues about how the outbreak might unfold -- and, more
　importantly, how it might be contained. In fact, the official Pandemic
　Influenza Operation Plan, or O-Plan, of the U.S. Centers for Disease
　Control and Prevention, is based in large part on a history lesson --
　research organized by pediatrician and medical historian Dr. Howard
　Markel of the University of Michigan.

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　A cheerful man with thick-rimmed black glasses and a professor's manner,
　Markel was tapped by the CDC to study what worked and what didn't during
　the 1918 flu disaster. Markel and colleagues examined 43 cities and found
　that so-called nonpharmaceutical interventions -- steps such as quarantines
　and school closings -- were remarkably successful in tamping down the
　outbreak. "They don't make the population immune, but they buy you time,
　either by preventing influenza from getting into the community or slowing
　down the spread," Markel told CNN.

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　Markel describes a dramatic example in the mining town of Gunnison,
　Colorado. In 1918, town leaders built a veritable barricade, closing
　down the railroad station and blocking all roads into town. Four thousand
　townspeople lived on stockpiled supplies and food from hunting or fishing.
　For three and a half months, while influenza raged in nearly every city
　in America, Gunnison saw not a single case of flu -- not until the spring,
　when roads were reopened and a handful of residents fell sick.

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