Buzz Words | 热词放送：无症状感染者，包机，健康包

无症状感染者
asymptomatic patient


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当地时间4月3日，美国总统特朗普表示，美国疾控中心推荐美国民众佩戴布口罩遮挡面部，防止感染。这一表态，与此前美国疾控中心“民众不需要戴口罩，除非正在照顾病人”这一指导意见相反。美国疾控中心网站解释称，新的建议是在研究无症状感染者的基础上做出的。无症状感染者不表现症状，但是仍具有传染力。

On April 3, US President Donald Trump said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommended that Americans wear cloth face coverings to protect against COVID-19. It is contrary to their former guidelines, which stated that “people do not need to wear a face mask unless you are caring for someone who is sick”. The CDC’s website explained that the recommendations were updated following new studies on asymptomatic patients. These are infected people who don’t display any symptoms of the disease, but can still transmit it.

马上学：Asymptomatic作形容词，意为“无症状的”，其反义词为symptomatic，意为“有症状的”，常见搭配为be symptomatic of sth（作为症状的、表明……的），例如：The city’s problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.

包机
charter flights



4月3日，中国驻英国大使馆安排包机，接180名中国留学生回国后，中国驻美国大使馆发布《关于就搭乘临时包机意愿进行摸底调查的通知》，调查留学生，特别是未成年的小留学生的回国意愿。

With the majority of international flights to China canceled amid the pandemic, overseas students and their families have appealed to the authorities to arrange special flights to get those studying overseas back home. After the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom chartered a plane on April 3 to take home 180 Chinese people studying in the UK, the Chinese Embassy in the United States has posted a questionnaire on its website to look into the demands of Chinese students, especially minors, who want to return home from the US.

马上学：Charter作名词，意为“包租”，指承租大型运输工具，如飞机、轮船以及火车等，表示“租用”还可以用hire，rent，lease等，其中hire多指短期租用，rent指指较长时间租出或租入房屋、商店或其他日用品等，而lease指按照租约租出或租用房屋等，例如agreement of lease（租赁契约）。

健康包
health package


图源：央视新闻视频截图

近日一位中国留学生，在社交媒体上发视频晒出了自己收到的中国驻意大利大使馆发放的健康包。健康包的细节令人动容：这份健康包用《人民日报》报纸包着，里面有口罩和连花清瘟胶囊等抗疫物资，还有一张纸上面题写着两句诗：“细理游子绪，菰米似故乡”。最让人感动的是，这两句诗不是打印而是手写的，墨透纸背（戳这里回顾）。

A Chinese student in Milan, Italy, took a video of the package showing the 20 face masks they received as well as a box of Lianhua Qingwen Capsule and a handwritten calligraphy work of two poems expressing care towards the students.

据悉，由于国外口罩和抗疫物品短缺，中国驻外使领馆纷纷向海外的中国留学生免费发放装有防疫物品和防疫指南的健康包。据外交部副部长马朝旭在4月2日的国新办发布会上介绍，目前，外交部正把为留学生提供健康包当作重要的工作，调配50万份健康包，包括1100多万个口罩，50万份消毒用品以及防疫指南等物资。现在发给留学生的健康包中，有很多都是驻外使领馆外交官自己的口罩，有的是使领馆自身的储备。

Due to the severe shortage of face masks and other essential supplies across the world, consulates have been trying their best to distribute "health packages" to Chinese students. Many of the items included in the "health packages" either came from the consulates' reserves or out of diplomats' own pockets, Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will prioritize the distribution of "health packages" and send additional 500,000 "health packages," including over 11 million face masks, 500,000 sterilization supplies and virus prevention manuals, Ma added.

综合来源：人民日报微博，外交部官网，央视新闻，CGTN，CNN