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　　【参考译文】日本发现新疯牛病例

　　TOKYO: A cow identified by Japanese experts as having mad cow disease has a new form of the ailment, Farming Minister Yoshiyuki Kamei told reporters yesterday.

　　【参考译文】东京：日本农业部长龟井善之十月七日向记者透露，日本专家确认被鉴定的疯牛病病牛患有的是一种新型疯牛病。

　　【讲解】ailment，A physical or mental disorder, especially a mild illness.失调，精神不安身体或精神不适，尤其指小毛病。如economic ailment，经济失调；trifling ailments，轻症,微症；women's ailments，妇女病。

　　The ministry said on Monday that the 23-month-old Holstein cow in Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, had an "unusual" form of the brain-wasting ailment, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

　　【参考译文】政府部门说，这头牛为荷兰种奶牛，年龄为1岁11个月，在东京北部的茨城县被发现患有一种不同寻常的脑虚损病，即通常所称的牛海绵体病(疯牛病)。

　　【讲解】Holstein，Any of a breed of large black and white dairy cattle originally developed in Friesland.霍斯坦种乳牛，一种原产于荷兰弗里斯兰的黑白花大奶牛。

　　Prefecture是法国的省，日本的县，法国的省长官邸或行政长官的职位或任期。

　　bovine spongiform encephalopathy，牛绵状脑病。bovine：Of, relating to, or resembling a ruminant mammal of the genus Bos, such as an ox, cow, or buffalo.牛科动物如公牛、母牛或水牛的；spongiform，海绵状(组织)的；encephalopathy指的是医学上的脑病。

　　"This is a new type of BSE, and we need to talk to experts and study this case thoroughly insgroupsto get to the bottom of how it happened," Kamei told reporters. "We will continue to carry out tests at the slaughterhouse ... and remove certain parts insgroupsto secure the safety of our food,"

　　【参考译文】龟井善之对记者说，这是一种新型的疯牛病。要想知道疯牛病发生的源头，我们还需要和专家进一步交流并对事情进行彻底研究。龟井善之还说，为了确保食品安全，我们将进一步对屠宰场进行检查，并转移一些屠宰场。

　　【讲解】get to the bottom of，to know the basic underlying quality; the source,起源、根本、基础；来源：Let's get to the bottom of the problem.让我们回到问题的源头.

　　Slaughterhouse,A place where animals are butchered.屠宰场屠宰动物的地方.

　　Mad cow disease has been linked to variant Creuzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which has killed more than 100 people in Europe, although there have been no cases of the disease in Japan.

　　【参考译文】疯牛病与一种叫做CreuzfeldtJakob Disease(简称克-雅氏病)的人脑疾病有某种联系。虽然日本目前还没有克-雅氏病例发生，但是欧洲却有100多人死于克-雅氏病。

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