英文和中文并非简单的逐字对应，有时会有一些“省略”，这样反而更加准确和地道，下面收集总结了几种“省略”的情况。

外周动脉缺血性疾病

? ischemic peripheral artery disease

? peripheral artery disease

这里表达成peripheral artery disease即可，不用将ischemic（缺血）写出来，因为peripheral artery disease这个词本身就已经含有“缺血”的意思了：

Peripheral artery disease (also called peripheral arterial disease) is a common circulatory problem in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to your limbs.

变化幅度大于...

? higher degree of change

? greater change

这里不用把“幅度”译出，因为change本身就相当于“变化幅度”。同理，“升高幅度大于”、“下降幅度大于”也是直接用greater increase/reduction/decrease 即可。

几种细胞系

? several kinds of cell lines / several types of cell lines

? several cell lines

几种细胞因子

? several kinds of cytokines / several types of cytokines

? several cytokines

在这里，“种”不用将“kind”或“type”译出来，several cell lines和several cytokines虽然不含有“种”对应的英文，但并不影响意思的准确理解。

交叉免疫反应

? cross-immune response

? cross-immunity

这里不一定要把response、reaction之类的词译出，cross-immunity本身就已经表达到位了。

cross-immunity可以和between搭配，比如：cross-immunity between the four serotypes，或者和against搭配，比如：Infection with this virus elicits cross-immunity against subsequent infection with another virus.

有交叉免疫保护作用

? has a cross-immunoprotective effect against

? provide cross-immune protection against

这里可以换一种思路，有...作用不一定非要写成has ... effect，表达成provide cross-immune protection against更加地道。

Sanger测序技术

? They were identified by Sanger sequencing technology.

? They were identified by Sanger sequencing.

像“方法”、“技术”等词在翻译时常常可以省略。

有时，非核心信息也可以略去以使文章显得简明而不啰嗦。比如，采用单个核苷酸多态性基因分型芯片，可以考虑略去“芯片”：using single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping.

论文标题里的研究（Study）、观察（Observation）、调查（Investigation）这些词常常也可以省略，因为肯定是做了调查研究才会写论文，所以这些词是多余的。

了解职业应激情况

? to investigate the condition of occupational stress

? to investigate the occupational stress

investigate本身就含有“调查情况”的意思了，所以通常不用再把condition、situation之类的词译出。

第二代高通量测序技术

? next-generation high-throughput sequencing

? next-generation sequencing

? high-throughput sequencing

第二代高通量测序技术不需要写成next-generation high-throughput sequencing，因为这里“第二代”并非修饰“高通量”，说第二代的高通量，而是二者为同义并列关系，第二代即高通量，高通量即第二代：

next-generation sequencing: High-throughput (formerly "next-generation") sequencing applies to genome sequencing, genome resequencing, transcriptome profiling (RNA-Seq), DNA-protein interactions (ChIP-sequencing), and epigenome characterization.

所以，写成next-generation sequencing 或 high-throughput sequencing比较合适。

Mann-Whitney U非参数检验

? Mann-Whitney U nonparametric test

? Mann-Whitney U test

Kruskal-Wallis H非参数检验

? Kruskal-Wallis H nonparametric test

? Kruskal-Wallis H test

这两个检验本身就是非参数检验，所以nonparametric不用译出，Mann-Whitney U test和Kruskal-Wallis H test的概念本身就包含了这些信息。

淋巴细胞亚群变化在急性髓系白血病中的临床病理意义

? clinicopathological significance of lymphocyte subset changes in acute myeloid leukemia

? clinicopathological significance of lymphocyte subsets in acute myeloid leukemia

要表达指标变化的意义，一般不需要把“变化”译出，因为既然是“指标”，就是说其数值变化。

冠词

? the heart, the lung, and the kidney

? the heart, lung, and kidney

器官、组织和解剖部位名称的单数形式前一般要用定冠词，但是这类名称并列出现时，可以只保留第一个而省略其他的定冠词。

句子中，在不影响意思表达的情况下，也可以省略一些重复的成分，这样更加简洁。

? 100 patients were followed up for at least 3 years, and 50 patients were followed up for at least 5 years.

? 100 patients were followed up for at least 3 years, and 50 patients for at least 5 years.

? Pleural effusion was seen in 10 cases and ascites was seen in 5 cases.

? Pleural effusion was seen in 10 cases and ascites in 5 cases.

? Of all diseased wrists, 21 had excellent outcomes, 13 had good outcomes, 3 had fair outcomes, and 2 had poor outcomes.

? Of all diseased wrists, 21 had excellent, 13 had good, 3 had fair, and 2 had poor outcomes.

参考：

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peripheral-artery-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20350557

http://www.genomicglossaries.com/content/sequencing_gloss.asp

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