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U.K. BEGINS VACCINE INOCULATIONS 英 新型コロナワクチンの接種開始

2020年12月23日 | 爺英語

We start in Britain where a 90-year-old woman has become the first person in the world to receive the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer.
Margaret Keenan got her shot early Tuesday morning. It's the first of 800,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to be provided in the U.K. in the coming weeks.
(Margaret Keenan)
"I'm happy it's happened. And now I've done it, and hopefully it will help other people to come along and do as I did. You know, try and do the best to get rid of this terrible thing."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson inspected the rollout.
The vaccine needs to be kept at around minus 70 degrees Celsius and will be offered at well-equipped hospitals for the time being.
People aged 80 or over and frontline workers will be prioritized.
come along 一緒に行く、うまくいく     
rollout  (新作などの)初公開や新製品などの導入     the introduction of a new product 
frontline (戦場で)前線の、(現場で)最前線の      

Daily Vocabulary(2020/12/23)

2020年12月23日 | Daily Vocabulary
26446.I couldn't agree more(全く同感)
I couldn’t agree more. In the end, you have to follow your heart. . 
26447.last(〜が続く)If an event, situation, or problem lasts for a particular length of time, it continues to exist or happen for that length of time. 
All good things come to an end. Nothing lasts forever.
26448.plan B(代替案)can be used to refer to an extremely large number of things or people 
We should come up with plan B just to be safe. 
26449.wait around(ブラブラしながら待つ) If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives. 
I waited around all day for the plumber to come but he never showed up.
26450.chill out(落ち着く) To chill out means to relax after you have done something tiring or stressful.   
I’m exhausted. I’m going to go home and chill out.

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