👀 Podcast link：COVID：One year on
👀Vocabulary
1.pandemic
(a.)(疾病)全國流行的(n.)流行病
a disease that spreads over a whole country or the whole world
☕Nobody guessed that such a rare disease would become a pandemic.
2.take hold
站穩腳跟；扎根；奪取
to become strong；to be established
☕Her imagination took hold of the idea and terrorized her at the thought of the hospital catching fire.
3.wimpy
(a.)懦弱的
not strong,brave or confident
☕I'm far too wimpy to go rock climbing.
4.sheer
(a.)全然的；純粹的；(紡織物)極薄的；透明的
(n.)透明薄織物
(adv.)全然；十足地；陡峭地；垂直地
used to emphasize how very great,important,or powerful a quality or feeling is；nothing except
☕I stood at the edge of the old chalk quarry,with a sheer drop of ten or twenty metres below me.
5.kick in
開始生效
to begin to take effect
☕The storm is expected to kick in shortly after sunrise.
6.genome
(n.)基因組
the complete set of genetic material of a human,animal,plant,or other living thing
☕For the last 20 years researchers have been able to calculate genome sizes and mutation rates.
7.take stock
回顧
to take stock (of something) is to think carefully about a situation or event and form an opinion about it,so that you can decide what to do
☕He walked back inside and took stock of the situation.
8.death toll
死亡人數
the number of people who die because of an event such as a war or an accident
☕The death toll of the Nepal earthquake keeps climbing.
9.outbreak
(n.)爆發
a time when something suddenly begins,especially a disease or something else dangerous or unpleasant
☕The outbreak of MERS put the whole nation on alert.
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