Thursday 17 September 2009

每日一词学英语(142-17/09/09): paediatric

The Association of Paediatric Emergency Medicine (APEM), which represents A&E specialists, called on the Government to make it illegal for children under 16 to cycle without wearing head protection. (From Times Online, September 17, 2009: A&E doctors demand that child cyclists be forced to wear helmets)

第30课(28 May 2009)提过词根“pedia-”,是“儿童”的意思。pediatric是形容词,儿科的,paediatric是其英式拼法。

上面那句话中“A&E”是Accident & Emergency的缩写。代表事故和急救专家的英国儿科急救医学协会呼吁政府制定法律,要求16岁以下孩子骑车必须戴头盔。这样可以大幅降低儿童头部伤害事故。

中国何时能效仿?

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