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In Britain, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan became the first person in the country to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside of a trial.

90岁的玛格丽特·基南成为英国首个非试验接种新冠疫苗的人。

Inoculation. Last week, Britain was the first Western country to start vaccinating its general population.

接种。上周，英国成为首个为普通民众接种疫苗的西方国家。

The mass inoculation brings hope that the world may be closer to ending the coronavirus pandemic.

大规模接种给人们带来了希望：世界可能离结束新冠疫情更近了。

Inoculation is a process that gives a person or animal a weakened form of a disease to prevent infection by that disease in the future.

接种是一个给予人或动物弱化病毒的过程，以防止未来感染该疾病。

A vaccination can generally be considered a form of an inoculation.

通常认为疫苗是一种接种形式。