一位男性吃了无证经营餐车里买来的猪肉墨西哥卷，他的大脑是这样停止工作的

▍单词积累｜街边餐车｜公共卫生｜医学类

▷街边小吃及餐车相关词汇

•pork tacos 猪肉墨西哥卷

•无证经营的餐车：illegal/unmarked food truck; unlawful business; don't have permission from the county or the state or any other authority in his area, to operate a truck like this.没有拿从当地州县两级拿到任何经营执照，没有任何合法证件允许他来经营这种餐车

•operate the truck vt.使用，操作，操纵〔机器或设备〕

•....dropping by（顺道拜访;造访；） at random places in this small town to sell food so delicious that most people had never tasted anything like it before. 在小镇上随缘营业，他的手艺令人垂涎三尺，做出来的食物无出其右

•CD thought this was kinda sketchy（(信息)粗略的，大概的，不完全的，不充分的；）. A blank（无字迹的；空白的）, unmarked truck, parked in the back alleyway（小巷，胡同）.

•The mustached man didn't seem like he was from around the town, and it was rare here to have visitors. 大胡子看起来不像本地人，而CD所在的小镇也几乎没有游客

•take a small sample for himself 自己尝了一口（吃的）

•undercooked adj. 煎（或烤、炸） 得火候不足的；煮得欠熟的

•Cooking it well helps against infection.

•contraband（n.走私货；禁运品） meat 走私肉

•... operating in a small town that maybe hasn't had a need to handle food trucks...在一个对餐车管理较为宽松的小镇上运营

•The mobile medium, allows the seller to set up shop quickly, make some sales, and they could disappear quickly, potentially without any accountability should something go wrong.（虚拟语气，if+were省略变成should+倒装）由于这是移动的餐饮销售平台，可以快速搭建好，也可以快速消失。如果出现了问题，则可能很难找到当事人负责。

•stationary（a.不（移）动的；静止的） restaurant 固定餐厅

▷公共卫生相关

•In the United States, agricultural policy, standards, and enforcement has helped to prevent Taenia solium from infecting pigs. Sanitation (公共卫生，环境卫生), hygiene standard (日常卫生标准), and slaughterhouse inspection (屠宰场检查) have made it so anyone living in the US, buying USDA inspected pork, shouldn't come into contact with (v. 接触到；联系；开始做某事)Taenia solium.

•...where humans come into contact with food that may have been in indirect contact with human waste 粪口传播

•...they touched something that you happened to touch, then you make contact hand to mouth.

•These are meat products that are banned likely for the reason of possibly spreading disease to humans and farm animals in this realm（n.< literary>王国；活动、兴趣或思想的领域，范围；）.这些猪肉被禁止的原因，往往就是他们可能会把疾病传播给美国国内的人畜

•hygienic(a.卫生的，清洁的) ritual(n.惯例，老规矩，例行公事 → routine) 清洁手段

- hygi- =health

•(conduct) post bowel-movement 大便后

-bowels （复数）n.肠；肠道；大便；内部，深处

*move/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body) 排大便; a bowel movement 大解，排便

*the bowels of something literary the lowest or deepest part of something 某物的最深处

the bowels of the earth (=deep under the ground) 地下深处

•...wash off（洗掉[冲去]某物） the Taenia eggs on their hands

•vetted-vet v.检查，审查

▷形容吃到美食

•this obviously is the perfect setting to enjoy the tastiest food 品尝美食的完美地方

•.. on recommendation from the chef => on somebody’s recommendation

•the meat felt maybe a little too tender in his mouth, almost as if parts of it were like chewing the inside of his own cheeks, maybe cooked medium rare.

•The flavor was bold and unbelievably delicious. 味道浓郁，好吃到令人难以置信

•His mind was blown at how good they were. 他的思绪仿佛被这些美味食物再一次带到了“九霄云外”

▷医学类词汇及动词搭配

•how his brain shunt down

•presenting to the emergency room confused with a massive headache 因神志不清，剧烈头痛被送至急诊室就诊

•admitting nurse 接诊护士

•physician n.内科医生

•pharmacist 药剂师

•stool n.凳子;<medical>大便，粪便 => human waste；feces n.粪便(faeces是英式拼法)；bowels n.大便

•regular health checkup 例行体检

•over the counter medicines 非处方药

•gut n.肠，肠道 = intestine,bowels；guts n.内脏

•ingest v.<technical>摄入〔食物等〕 → digest v. 消化〔食物〕

•...cause seizures refractory（a.< medical >〔疾病〕难以医治的；难以治愈的） to treatment 难以治疗

-re-“向后，往后”；-fract =break, “破开，打碎”，来源于拉丁语；

•In this case, we go with（同意，接受〔看法或计划〕） what the patient says.相信患者所说的话

•malfunction n.〔机器的〕故障，失灵；〔人体器官的〕功能障碍

•As CD was observed in the hospital for a few more days... 住院观察

•discharge v.正式准许〔某人〕离开〔尤指让病人出院或让军人退伍等〕；通知〔病人〕出院；开除〔士兵〕军籍

•his neurologic exam appeared to be normal / Everything else with his brain appeared to be ok/ as it appeared he made a full recovery

▷看起来超级专业so感觉现实生活中应该没几个人会记的医学专有名词（我是非医学专业，如有错误欢迎指出）

•generalized（疾病全身性的，非局部的；） tonic-clonic （n.补药，滋补品 - adj. 阵挛的；阵挛性的）seizure 全身强直阵挛

•psychiatric a.精神病学的，精神病治疗的 ~problem

-psychi- =soul, 表示“灵魂，心理，精神”；iati- =healing，表示“治疗，治愈”；-ic，表形容“...的”

•nutritional deficiency 营养缺乏

•leukocytosis白细胞紊乱

-leuk-来源于希腊语，意味白色的；cyte-指代细胞cell；-osis意味着紊乱

•neck stiffness 脖子僵直

•adrenaline 肾上腺素

-adrenal- 肾上腺，复合词根。ad-，去，往；-ren，肾

•blood vessel 血管 

•definitive host 终末宿主

•parasite n.寄生植物；寄生动物；寄生虫

-para- 表示“半，类似，辅助，旁，超，异常”，用于化学，意为“对（位），聚，仲，副”，用于医学意为“对，副，衍”，在元音前演变为par-；site- 谷物，食物。据说是由希腊词parasitos，指“出谋划策或溜须拍马、不干活吃主人粮食的食客”，逐渐演变成现在的词义。

•tapeworm n.绦虫〔肠内的一种寄生虫〕

•Taenia（n. 发带；绦虫） solium 猪带绦虫

•Taenia saginata 牛带绦虫

•oncospheres 六钩蚴（绦虫的幼虫）

•The worm have a scolex（n. 头节；寄生蠕虫的幼虫；头筛） that attaches to our intestines, and they survive and feed off（〔动物〕从…取食） our diet while growing to be 20 to 40 feet long. 这种寄生虫有头节，使其得以附着在我们的倡导内，它们吸收人体的营养，可以涨到20-40英尺长

•...their segments（〔水果或花自然形成的〕片，块，瓣；〔昆虫的〕节） break off （（使）脱落，（使）脱开）and appear in the person's stool. 它们的一部分会脱落，并出现在人的粪便中

•gravid proglottids 妊娠节片

•Remnants (n.残余部分，剩余部分)of this contaminated（v.〔水、食物等〕被污染的 → tainted） human waste can get into pigs' food supply. 这些受污染的排泄物的残渣可能会出现在猪食里

•penetrate the intestinal wall 穿过肠道壁

•circulate into muscle tissue 在肌肉组织内循环

•lesion (n.〔因伤病而致的〕损伤，损害；病变) viable(能存活的；能生长发育的 ) cysts(囊肿) 囊肿病变

•neurocysticercosis 神经囊尾蚴病

•blood-brain barrier 血脑屏障

•larva n.〔昆虫的〕幼虫，幼体 

•evade the immune system 躲过免疫系统

•vesicular（adj. 小泡的,有小泡的,由小泡组成的） stage 囊泡期

-vesic-, vesico- 囊，膀胱，泡。和表示腹部的ventr，表示子宫的uter同源

•degenerate a.堕落的，腐化的;蜕变

•colloidal（adj. 胶状的,胶质的） vesicular stage 胶状期

-coll- =glue，表示“胶”；-oid=form，表示“...之物”，在几何学上表示“...形”；做形容词后缀，表示“如...”

•（trigger）immune response 免疫反应

•granular(颗粒的，粒状的) nodular stage 结节肉芽肿期

-gran-=grain，表示“颗粒”；-ular 表形容词，“有...形状或性质的”

•mineralize v. 使含无机化合物；使矿物化，石化；给（有机物或水等）加入矿物质：采集矿物

•nodular(adj. 有结节的；结节状的) calcified（a. (人体组织)钙化的,硬化的；） stage 结节钙化期

-calc- =stone，表示“石头”，引申为“计算”；-ify 接在名词、形容词之后，构成“使成...”“化”“作成”等意思的词

•recurrent（a.一再发生的；重复出现的） seizures 反复抽搐

•lodge v.（使）卡住，（使）固定 —>dislodge v.将〔某物〕强行去除[移开，取出]；(从固定位置上)取出，去除，移动；

•deviation n.<technical>偏差

-de- 表示“从..离开，从...向下”；vi- =way，表道路；-ate 表动词，“做，造成”

•This parasite, would have migrated （v.〔鸟或兽〕移栖，迁徙;〔尤指为找工作〕移居，迁移  ）in pigs to pig muscle,instead, in human migrate to the brain.这种寄生虫本应从猪的体内迁移到肌肉里，在人身上则是迁移到大脑里

•calcified masses 钙化物

•spinal cord（粗线；细绳；索，带） 脊髓

•subarachnoid（adj. 蛛网膜下的 subarachnoid hemorrhage [医]蛛网膜下出血） space 蛛网膜腔

•praziquantel 吡喹酮

•albendazole 阿苯达唑

•neurologic tisstue 神经组织

•corticosteroids 皮质类固醇

•inflammatory response 炎性反应

▷症状（可用于表达身体不舒服时）

•found him collapsed, on the floor, shaking with his eyes rolling into the back of his head. 双眼上翻，抽搐不止

•He thought he feel something weird in his stomach. It didn't last very long, so he didn't think too much of it. （没想太多）

•CD would feel kind of strange at random times（偶尔觉得不舒服）.

•Some weeks he'd have a cough that just wouldn't seem to go away. 有的日子里他会一直不停咳嗽

•These would come with itchy（a.发痒的） and watery（含水的） eyes and a low-grade fever. These could be allergies but he didn't know for sure.

•so maybe he was just seeing things, he thought. 他觉得自己不过是眼花了而已

•be seeing things

-to imagine that you see someone or something which is not really there 产生幻觉，见神见鬼

•reported random bouts of （一阵，一回，一场，一番〔尤指做对自己有害的事情〕）not feeling well after eating at the truck. 提及了在那家餐车吃过饭后，身体感受时不时不舒服的情况

•He felt strange and didn't know why.（觉得身体不舒服但又不知道为什么）

•He felt like his stomach was getting pulled into the ground and heat would radiate（散发，流露；焕发）out of his neck, but this was short lived. 他感觉他的肚子往地上拽一般，他还感觉自己的脖子在散发出热量，不过持续时间不长

•constant throbbing （throb v.〔身体的某一部位〕抽痛）sensation in his head 他的大脑里每天都在悸动

•It felt like his head was heavy.自己的脑袋特别沉

•It hurt so bad it brought him down to the ground, and he emptied stomach from both ends and afterwards, he felt even worse.他甚至痛到瘫倒在地，上吐下泻，在此之后他感觉更糟糕了

•His eyes were wiede open, but he was unresponsive. 他双眼圆睁，但没有意识

•This gives the medicial team （医疗团队）some clues as to what's happening.

•the headache developing over time 随时间推移不断发展的头痛

▷其他未归类的

•He didn't quite remember exactly what the experience was like.（当你回忆不起某件事时可用的句子）

•hear commotion （n. 喧闹;混乱;骚动）

•But what wouldn't be out of the question(不可能；不允许) is maybe some other kind of infection. 我们不能排除的是其他类型的感染

•It should make sense as to(~sth 关于某事) why some traditions discourage the consumption of pork, if it's not for the other reason as well. 如果不是出于其他原因的话，有些地方不鼓励食用猪肉其实是有道理的

•We have a good guess as to where CD's problem came from.

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