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輝瑞疫苗|輝瑞疫苗的名稱Comirnaty太拗口？藥名這么怪都是有原因的！ How to pronounce FDA-approved Comirnaty

輝瑞-拜恩泰科新冠疫苗日前正式獲批上市，它的商品名Comirnaty也進入了大眾的視野。這個詞要怎么發音呢？為什么藥名都這么怪？其實這是有原因的。

輝瑞疫苗|輝瑞疫苗的名稱Comirnaty太拗口？藥名這么怪都是有原因的！ How to pronounce FDA-approved Comirnaty
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The logo for Comirnaty (Credit: Pfizer)
The Food and Drug Administration issued full authorization Monday for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Soon, millions of Americans will face a confusing, difficult task: How in the heck do you pronounce Comirnaty?
美國食品藥物管理局本周一（8月23日）正式批準輝瑞-拜恩泰科新冠疫苗上市。很快，數百萬美國人將面臨一個令人困惑的難題：Comirnaty這個詞到底要怎么發音呢？
That"s the brand name for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. It"s pronounced "co-MER-na-tee" according to Scott Piergrossi, president of creative for the Brand Institute, which crafted the name.
Comirnaty（中文名稱為復必泰）是輝瑞--拜恩泰科新冠疫苗的商品名。據品牌研究所創意總監斯科特·皮爾格羅西介紹，這個詞的讀音是“co-MER-na-tee”。
It"s a little easier to say than BNT162b2, the research name of the vaccine while it was first being studied, but not much.
這比該疫苗在最初研究階段使用的名稱BNT162b2發音更容易一點，但是也好不到哪去。
Why Comirnaty?
為什么要采用Comirnaty這個名稱呢？
According to the companies, it "represents a combination of the terms COVID-19, mRNA, community, and immunity."
據這兩家公司稱，Comirnaty一詞“綜合了新型冠狀病毒肺炎的正式名稱COVID-19、信使核糖核酸mRNA、群體community和免疫力immunity這幾個詞”。
我們來分解說明一下：
co = COVID-19 (which in turn stands for COronaVIrus Disease 2019, the year it was discovered)
前兩個字母co代表COVID-19，即新型冠狀病毒肺炎2019，2019年是新冠病毒被發現的年份。
mirna = mRNA, the snippets of genetic code that tell cells to build proteins. In this case, the proteins on the COVID-19 spike protein
中間的mirna 指代的是mRNA，讓細胞合成蛋白質的遺傳密碼片段，在這里蛋白質指的是新冠病毒纖突蛋白。
ty = some combination of community and immunity.
結尾處的ty就是community（群體）和immunity（免疫力）的組合

輝瑞疫苗|輝瑞疫苗的名稱Comirnaty太拗口？藥名這么怪都是有原因的！ How to pronounce FDA-approved Comirnaty
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A medical worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech "Comirnaty" vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a vaccination center in Paris, France, July 23, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
"That"s what I love about Comirnaty, it hits so many of the key points we were trying to convey," Piergrossi said.
皮爾格羅西說：“這就是我喜歡Comirnaty這個詞的原因，它包含了我們想傳達的許多要點。”
If you don"t like Comirnaty, and BNT162b2 doesn"t trip off your tongue, you can always try tozinameran.
如果你不喜歡Comirnaty，又覺得BNT162b2太難念，你也可以試試tozinameran這個詞。
Yeah, we thought not.
還是算了吧。這也夠拗口的。
But in case you want to, that one"s pronounced "toe-zuh-NAH-mer-an."
萬一你對tozinameran感興趣，這里可以告訴你，它的發音是“toe-zuh-NAH-mer-an”。
That"s the generic name for Comirnaty. Like all pharmaceutical generic names overseen by the World Health Organization, it had to be crafted according to strict nomenclature rules.
Tozinameran是Comirnaty的通用名稱。和世界衛生組織監管的其他所有藥品通用名稱一樣，這款疫苗必須按照嚴格的命名法來命名。
Generic drug or vaccine names come in two parts. The first part is something the drug company gets to make up, in this case "tozina."
藥物或疫苗的通用名稱分為兩部分。第一部分是制藥公司起的名字，在本詞中指的是tozina這部分。