杉田敏の現代ビジネス英語 2022年冬号
Counter blessings of Covid-19
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Covod-19 caused havoc in everybody's life.
Unvisible virus brought sociely to stand still. And old rules were thrown out as we scramble to learn how to comunicate remotely and juggle the responsibilities of home and work. People lost loved ones fpr pandemic. Many people got sick and they're still suffering from symptoms as known ..Covid. And yet at the same time the pandemic has taught us a lot. We may emerge from this ordeal more capable and better prepeared for the future.
I take your point. One thing that we will have profound vocation for future generations is the incredible advances in messenger RNA or MRNA biotechnologies.
Right. We've got vacines in a record time. In less than a year. When normaly it would take several years. Even drug makers were surprised by how quickly vaccines were developed and destributed. Now a host of possibility has sprang up.
Scientists, government and drug companies are all asking what else can MRNA do. Reserchers are developing tools for using it to fight the flu, cancer, HIV and other diseases. But challenges remain.
Many scientist believe MRNA could be the basis for new generation of vaccines and drugs against vacteria, pathogens, parasites and allergic conditions.
Clinical tryals for MRNA products and other viruses are under way. We may soon have vaccines for many other diseases that have eluded our grasp.
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Words&phrases
cause havoc
invisible
virus
bright someting to stand still
scramble to
Terry scrambled to finish the reprt by the dead like.
When we scramble to do something, we rush to do it. Imagine people are moving around frantic and ungraceful way, trying to get something done.
juggle
symptom
emerge from 貧困・苦境から抜け出す
ordeal
better prepared for
I take your point
profound 重大な
The emergence of lavor union had a prodound impact on working conditions. In this case profound means deep, important, far reaching.
The impact would be truly great.
imprication
incredible
messenger RNA / MRNA
biothechnology
vaccine
in record time
a host of 多数の～
Company X introduced a hos of new meagers to safeguard employees' mental health. A host of means meny. There are great number of something.
a (whole) host of (something)
A very large number or collection of people or things.
spring up
flu
HIV
challenges remain
basics for
pathogen
parasite
alergic condition
clinical tryal
be under way
Construction of the new office building is aleady under way.
Somehing that is under way is in progress, has begun. We also say get under way to mean start, begin. The new marketing campaign will get under way next month.
elude someone's grasp
For twenty years that championship has eluded that team's grasp. When something eludes our grasp, we can't get it or we can't achieve it, as if we can't chatch hold of it or we can't grab it.
to stay too far away for someone to reach.
reckon without (one's) host
To plan without taking into account all the necessary or important factors or people.