下面的这篇文章来自于经济学人杂志的一篇文章，我们通过文章的生词和例句来给大家分析如果通过这样的方法来进行经济学人精读学习，在这个过程中，大家可以记录笔记，并把自己的不会的上标摘录下来作为自己的一个生词列表，方便以后复习需要。
第一次读外刊杂志的同学可以从这篇文章了解下：用这10个方法阅读英语报纸书刊，怎么可能不提高。文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/mosquitoes-have-shaped-societies-as-well-as-decimating-them.html
During the second world war, American troops in the Far East were said to have two foes. The first was Japanese. One propaganda poster depicted 1 an enemy’s sabre, slick with blood. The second adversary had no sword but was terrifying all the same. Malaria-carrying mosquitoes infected around 60% of Americans stationed in the Pacific at least once. Drugs such as Atabrine could help, but nasty side-effects meant that some GIs shunned their daily dose—with predictable consequences. “These Men Didn’t Take Their Atabrine 2” warned a sign propped below a pair of human skulls in Papua New Guinea.
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1.depicted文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/mosquitoes-have-shaped-societies-as-well-as-decimating-them.html
- vt. 描绘; 描画
- 描述
关联例句：文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/mosquitoes-have-shaped-societies-as-well-as-decimating-them.html
- Fears about the effects of violent video games grew in the mid-1990s, when video games started depicting blood and carnage.— Jane C. Timm, NBC News, "Fact check: Trump suggests video games to blame for mass shootings," 5 Aug. 2019
- 20世纪90年代中期，电子游戏开始描绘血腥和大屠杀，人们开始担心暴力电子游戏的影响。
2.Atabrine 文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/mosquitoes-have-shaped-societies-as-well-as-decimating-them.html
- 疟涤平，一种药物，主要治疗疟疾了传染病。
翻译：第二次世界大战期间，据说美军在远东地区有两个敌人。一个是日军，有张宣传海报就画了一把染着鲜血的日本军刀。第二个敌人虽说没有刀，但同样令人恐惧。驻扎在太平洋地区的美军约有60%曾被携带疟疾的蚊子感染过至少一次。疟涤平这样的药物能起到作用，但副作用严重，所以一些美国大兵并没有每天按时按量服用——后果可想而知。当时在巴布亚新几内亚，一对人类头骨下面的一块标牌警告道：“这些人没有服用疟涤平”。文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/mosquitoes-have-shaped-societies-as-well-as-decimating-them.html
At least decent treatment was available. For most of human existence, says Timothy Winegard in his lively history of mosquitoes, “we did not stand a chance” against the insect 3 and its diseases. That was partly because of ignorance. Earlier humans blamed malaria and its mosquito-borne cousins on “bad air” from swamps, even as the years passed and death kept whining at their ears. Malaria once killed over 20% of people in the Fens of eastern England. Yellow fever ravaged Memphis, Tennessee, deep into the 1800s. No wonder Mr Winegard calls the mosquito a “destroyer of worlds”, which may have dispatched 4 around half of all humans ever born.文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/mosquitoes-have-shaped-societies-as-well-as-decimating-them.html
3.insect文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/mosquitoes-have-shaped-societies-as-well-as-decimating-them.html
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- n. 昆虫；卑鄙的人
关联例句：
- Other preventive measures include covering skin with long-sleeved pants and shirts while outside and properly using insect repellent containing DEET.— Fox News, "Massachusetts woman reportedly dies from rare mosquito-borne virus: 'She was such a beautiful soul'," 26 Aug. 2019
- 其他预防措施包括在室外用长腿裤子和可以覆盖皮肤的衬衫，并适当使用含有避蚊胺的驱虫剂。
4.dispatched
- n. 派遣；急件
- vt. 派遣；[计算机]分派
关联例句：
下面我们来看一个来自国家地理杂志的例子：
- Greek myth holds that the thunder god Zeus once dispatched two eagles flying in opposite directions across the sky.— National Geographic, "Once sacred, the Oracle at Delphi was lost for a millennium. See how it was found.," 12 Mar. 2019
- 希腊神话认为，雷神宙斯曾派遣两只鹰朝相反的方向飞过天空。
翻译：至少那个时候还可以获得像样的治疗。蒂莫西·怀恩加德（Timothy Winegard）在他对蚊子历史的生动叙述中写道，纵观人类历史，在蚊子及其携带的疾病面前，大部分时间“我们都不堪一击”。部分原因是无知。经年累月，死亡的嗡鸣不绝于耳，而早期人类却一直将疟疾及蚊子传播的其他疾病归咎于沼泽地释放出的“瘴气”。疟疾曾在英格兰东部的沼泽地带夺走了超过20%的人的性命。19世纪后期，黄热病摧毁了田纳西州的孟菲斯市（Memphis）。古往今来所有的人口中，可能约有一半是因为蚊子而没了命，难怪怀恩加德称蚊子是“世界毁灭者”。
一只正在吸血的蚊子
But his book is more than a litany of victims. Mr Winegard convincingly argues that the insect has shaped human life as well as delivering death. Mosquitoes helped save the Romans from Hannibal and Europe from the Mongols. And if malaria has changed history, so has resistance to it. Europeans believed that the relative immunity enjoyed by some Africans made them ideal slaves in the New World. Later, the tables were turned. “They will fight well at first, but soon they will fall sick and die like flies,” predicted Toussaint Louverture of the Frenchmen sent to end his slave revolution in Haiti. He was right. About 85% of the 65,000 soldiers deployed 5 to the colony died of mosquito-borne illnesses, and Haiti won its independence.
5.deployed
- v. 展开；部署（deploy的过去式）
下面我们来看一个来自经济学人杂志的例句：
- On August 20th extra troops were deployed to Papua.— The Economist, "Violent protests rack the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua," 24 Aug. 2019
- 8月20日，增派部队前往巴布亚（巴布亚岛(位于太平洋上澳大利亚的北面）。
翻译：但他的书可不仅仅是对受害者的记录。怀恩加德令人信服地论证了蚊子除了带来死亡，还塑造了人类生活。蚊子救罗马人于汉尼拔的大军，也让欧洲摆脱了蒙古人的铁蹄。如果说疟疾改变了人类历史，那么人类对疟疾的免疫力也一样。欧洲人认为那些对疟疾产生了一定免疫力的非洲人非常适合在新大陆做奴隶。后来风水轮流转了。“一开始他们战斗力会很强，但很快就会生病，一个接一个地死去。”杜桑·卢维杜尔（Toussaint Louverture）对被派到海地镇压他领导的奴隶革命的法国人做了这样的预测。他说中了。被派到这个殖民地上的6.5万名士兵中约有85%死于蚊子传播的疾病。海地赢得了独立。
These dashes across time and distance could become exhausting 7, but Mr Winegard is an engaging guide, especially when he combines analysis with anecdote. One highlight relays a bizarre plot by a Confederate zealot to infect Abraham Lincoln with yellow fever; another passage explains the ancient Egyptian habit of fighting malarial fevers by bathing in urine. (A few of the witticisms fall flat. Calling the 18th-century Caribbean a “dinner-party buffet” for mosquitoes seems glib, for example; anthropomorphising the pests as a “guerrilla force” is a metaphor too far.)
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7.exhausting
- adj. 使耗尽的;使人精疲力竭的 这里要注意exhausting和exhaustive的区别
接下来我们来看一个来自华盛顿邮报的例子：
- The research demonstrated the fragments may become airborne in a way similar to dust, pollen and fine particulate matter from vehicle exhausts.— Washington Post, "Pure as snow? Scientists say air carrying plastics to Arctic," 15 Aug. 2019
- 研究表明，碎片可能以类似于汽车尾气中的灰尘、花粉和细颗粒物的方式在空气中传播。
翻译：这般穿梭于时空中的讲述读起来可能累人，但怀恩加德是一个很能抓住人心的向导，特别是他能把轶事和分析熔于一炉。其中有一个精彩片段讲述了一个离奇的阴谋：一名南方联盟的狂热支持者曾企图让林肯染上黄热病；另一个段落解释了古埃及人用尿液沐浴来对抗疟疾发烧的习惯。（不过有些抖机灵的话效果不怎么样。例如，将18世纪的加勒比地区称为蚊子的“自助晚宴”有点油嘴滑舌，把蚊子比作“游击队”也有点过分了。）
But much of Mr Winegard’s narrative is thrilling—above all the concluding chapters in which he tackles the modern mosquito. Drugs and insecticides have helped slash malaria rates, but mosquitoes can quickly develop immunity themselves. In total, the insects still kill over 800,000 people every year. And though gene-editing might one day render them harmless, or even obliterate them altogether, mosquito-borne illnesses such as Zika have recently been spreading to new regions. The destroyer of worlds has not finished yet.
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8.narrative
- n. 记叙文; 故事
- 叙述, 讲述; 叙述部分
- adj. 叙述的; 叙事体的
下面我们来看一个来自于大西洋月刊The Aalantic的例子：
- The story of The Sixth Sense’s word-of-mouth triumph is the kind of industry narrative studios still salivate over but used to build their entire financial operations around.— David Sims, The Atlantic, "How The Sixth Sense Conquered Hollywood in 1999," 6 Aug. 2019
- 《第六感》的口碑大获全胜的故事是这样一种行业叙事工作室仍然垂涎三尺，但却曾可以用来运维整个事业。
翻译：但怀恩加德的叙述大部分都扣人心弦，尤其是最后关于现代的蚊子那几章。药物和杀虫剂已使疟疾的发病率大幅降低，但蚊子本身也可以迅速产生免疫力，每年仍然夺去80多万人的性命。虽然有一天基因编辑可能会让蚊子变得无害，甚至能彻底消灭它们，但像寨卡这样由蚊子传播的病毒近来已经蔓延到新的地区。世界的毁灭者气数未尽。
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