flu• Flushots are recommended for people 55 and older.• It is unknown how m any of those pneumonia cases were preceded by flu.• Campbell, however, was suffering from fluyesterday and a decision on his fitness will not be made until today.• Only replacement back Kenny Logan was an absentee, confined to bed suffering from the 24-hour flubug.• Pace of flu attack hits 14-year high.• The guard said he has played a little sluggish because of the flu and an anklesprain he suffered two weeks ago.• The economy had not just a passing cold but a bad case of the flu.• When Cottingham was 16, she got what she thought was the flu.
flu epidemic• Fortunately, full-blownflu epidemics are relatively rare.• Ah, that was the time we had a springflu epidemic.• Jane died in the flu epidemic in 1916.
ADJECTIVE | ... OF FLU | VERB + FLU | FLU + NOUN | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤mild輕度流感➤bad嚴重流感▸➤gastric, stomach (NAmE) 胃腸炎;胃腸感冒➤avian, bird禽流感➤pandemic全國/全世界流行的流感... OF FLU➤bout, case, dose一場流感;一例流感病例;一次流感◇She's had a nasty dose of flu. (BrE) 她得了重流感。◇She's had a nasty dose of the flu. (NAmE) 她得了重流感。➤strain流感菌系VERB + FLU➤be in bed with, have, suffer from患流感卧牀;患流感▸➤catch, come down with, contract, get, go down with (BrE) 得了流感;得流感而病倒;染上流感FLU + NOUN➤bug, virus流感病毒▸➤epidemic, outbreak, pandemic流感;流感的爆發;流感在全國/全世界的流行➤symptoms流感症狀▸➤victim流感患者▸➤vaccine流感疫苗▸➤jab, shot, vaccination流感預防針;流感疫苗接種➤strain流感的類型➤season (= time when a lot of people suffer from flu)流感高發季節PHRASES➤a bout with the flu (NAmE) 流感的侵襲◇She was off work for four days because of a bout with the flu.她因患流感已有 4 天沒上班了。➡ topic at illness