feeling可数还是不可数? feeling可数吗 feeling可加s吗 _可数

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今天带大家精读的几段外刊选自经济学人20200321一期中China板块的Worries about imported infections一文，讲的是最近的热点新闻：境外输入病例。文章难度中等，强烈推荐阅读。
In early March Alina Wang, a Chinese citizen studying in Sydney, decided it would be best to go back to her native country. She felt that China was doing a good job curtailing the spread of covid-19. In Australia she had worries, including that few people wore masks when out and about. Now Ms Wang is in a hotel near her family’s home in a north-eastern Chinese province. She is serving out the last few days of a two-week quarantine that local officials said new arrivals must undergo. Fortunately her room has good Wi-Fi. She is keeping busy with coursework.

分解
①In early March Alina Wang, a Chinese citizen studying in Sydney, decided it would be best to go back to her native country. ②She felt that China was doing a good job curtailing the spread of covid-19. ③In Australia she had worries, including that few people wore masks when out and about. ④Now Ms Wang is in a hotel near her family’s home in a north-eastern Chinese province. ⑤She is serving out(=completing) the last few days of a two-week quarantine that local officials said new arrivals must undergo. ⑥Fortunately her room has good Wi-Fi. ⑦She is keeping busy with coursework.

【feeling可数还是不可数? feeling可数吗 feeling可加s吗】段落分析：这一段站在回国人员的角度，以一位留学生为例，描述了疫情期间回国的情况。②③两句是回国的两个主要原因：1.国内控制的很好 2.国外不重视。后面几句讲的是回国之后的隔离情况。

词汇讲解
curtail表示减少，限制。在写作当中可以用来替代较为常用的reduce/limit 。比如减少孩子们玩手机的时间：curtail children’s screen time 。还有一个常见词也可以表示减少/限制：cut 。同样可以用来替代reduce，比如减少碳排放：cut carbon emissions(=reduce carbon emissions) 。
covid-19就是此次新冠肺炎病毒的专业名称。全称为Coronavirus Disease 2019 。Coronavirus就是新冠(corona-)病毒。
worry在这里表示担心的具体事情，是个可数名词。再比如One major worry for women is walking home at night. 如果是表示担忧这种feeling，则是一个抽象的不可数名词。下一段当中的infection也是这样，作为可数名词时，表示具体感染的人或病例；作为不可数名词时，则表示感染这一抽象的行为。
out and about自由活动/到处跑(going to different places) 。表示冒着风险出门，可以用venture out 。原文也可以改为few people wore masks/the mask when venturing out 。更加形象贴切。
two-week quarantine就是我们这些天我们所说的隔离两周。需要注意的是，由two weeks(名词成分)变成的two-week(形容词修饰词合成词)必须是单数形式，不能写成two-weeks 。表示两周还有一个常见词：fortnight，在一些考试当中会经常遇到这个同义替换。表示(疾病)隔离还可以用isolate/isolation，不过在外刊中的使用频率没有quarantine高。自我隔离就是self-isolate/self-quarantine 。
new arrival在这里表示新入境的人。其中arrival表示到达的人/车等，放在具体的语境中表示具体的人或物。arrival与前面讲的arrival和infection类似，是个具体的可数名词；如果是不可数名词，则表示到达这一行为。new arrivals在文中就相当于newly-arrived people/nationals(国民) 。
keep busy with比较偏口语化。在写作当中表示忙于...还可以用be occupied with/be engaged in 。如Many seniors(大四学生) have been fully occupied with the graduation thesis recently.

句子分析
③In Australia she had worries, including that few people wore masks when out and about.
A including后面引导的是一句话，因此前面需要加上一个that 。同时，由于including后面的成分是对前面worries的举例，即其中一个具体的worry 。因此可以将这个that名词从句理解为worry的同位语，对其进行解释说明，即including one worry that...
B 在when out and about这个状语从句中，省略了主语+be动词。即Few people wore masks when they were out and about.
其实这句话也可以改为使用worry的动词形式，使用among other things短语作为插入语，放在例子之前：
In Australia she worried, among other things, that few people wore masks when out and about.

参考译文
3月初，在悉尼留学的中国公民王丽娜认为，最好还是回到自己的祖国。她觉得中国在遏制covid-19的扩散方面做得很好。待在澳大利亚，她有各种担忧，包括很少有人外出时戴口罩。现在，王女士中国东北部的一个省份附近的一家酒店里进行隔离，也就在她家附近。她正在完成为期两周隔离的最后几天，当地官员说，新来的人必须接受隔离。还好，她的房间无线网很好。她一直忙于功课。