考研英語長難句｜Day57

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今日長難句

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The public health risk could become high if this virus exploits the opportunity to establish itself as a human pathogen and spreads to groups at higher risk of severe disease such as young children and immunosuppressed persons.

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詞匯解析

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virus [?va?r?s] n. 病毒

exploit [?k?spl??t, ?ekspl??t] v. 利用establish [??st?bl??] v. 建立，確立pathogen [?p?θ?d??n] n. 病原體severe disease 嚴重疾病immunosuppress [?mjuno?s??pres] v. 抑制免疫（句中加ed，可理解為adj，意為 “免疫功能不全的，免疫抑制的”）

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結構分析

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?句子主干：

The public health risk could become high?狀語從句：if this virus exploits the opportunity to establish itself as a human pathogen and spreads to groups at higher risk of severe disease同位語（舉例）：such as young children and immunosuppressed persons

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參考譯文

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The public health risk could become high if this virus exploits the opportunity to establish itself as a human pathogen and spreads to groups at higher risk of severe disease such as young children and immunosuppressed persons.

如果這一病毒利用機會確立自己作為人類病原體的地位 / 有機會成為人類病原體，并向幼兒和免疫抑制者等患嚴重疾病風險較高的群體傳播，那么公共衛(wèi)生風險可能會變得很高。

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