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Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher we answer a question from Samuel in China.
大家好! 本周《名师答疑》，我们回答来自中国的塞缪尔的一个问题。
He writes, When I read the news, sometimes I see 'under quarantine', and at other times I see 'in quarantine.'
他写道，读新闻时，有时我会看到under quarantine，有时我会看到in quarantine(在隔离中)。
Are they different in meaning?
它们的意思不同吗？
In the following sentence, which one should I use?
在下面的句子中，我应该使用哪一个？
Jerry left Hohhot for school in Hefei when the virus outbreak started in Hohhot.
当疫情在呼和浩特暴发时，杰瑞离开呼和浩特去合肥上学。
So, when he arrived in Hefei, he was put (under or in) quarantine in a quarantine hotel.
因此，当他到达合肥时，他在一家隔离酒店隔离(under还是in)。
Prepositions are tricky for Chinese English learners.
介词对于中国英语学习者来说是一个难点。
I hope you can help clear my mind a little bit.
希望你能帮我理清一下思路。
Thank you in advance, Samuel, China.
提前谢谢你，塞缪尔，中国。
Dear Samuel, Thank you for writing to us.
亲爱的塞缪尔，谢谢你的来信。
I am sure that almost everyone who is reading or hearing this knows that “quarantine” is the isolation of a person or a group of people to prevent the spread of infection to others.
我相信，几乎每个读到或听到这句话的人都知道，quarantine就是隔离一个人或一群人，以防止传染其他人。
But it may not yet be clear how we use different prepositions with the word “quarantine.”
但大家可能还不清楚不同的介词怎样与quarantine搭配使用。
Let us begin with “under.”
首先看under。
Since May 2020, language researchers have collected what people are saying related to the pandemic in 20 different English-speaking countries.
自2020年5月以来，语言研究人员收集了20个英语国家的人与疫情有关的言论。
They call the result the Coronavirus Corpus.
他们称这个结果为"冠状病毒语料库"。
I searched in that collection and learned that “under quarantine” is much less common than “in quarantine.”
我在语料库中搜索了一下，发现under quarantine比in quarantine的说法要少得多。
Here are some examples:
这里有一些例句：
All close contacts of the coronavirus cases have been placed under a quarantine order.
所有与冠状病毒病例有密切接触的人都已被隔离。
Following his classmate’s positive test, the 11-year-old was placed under quarantine on Thursday.
在他的同学检测呈阳性后，这名11岁的男孩于周四被隔离。
Many countries put their entire populations under strict quarantine in order to prevent the virus from spreading.
许多国家为了防止病毒传播，对所有人都进行了严格的隔离。
Compare these examples of how “in quarantine” appears.
比较一下用in quarantine的例句。
Some schools are offering meals to students in quarantine.
一些学校正在向被隔离的学生提供膳食。
New Zealand requires a 10-day stay in hotel quarantine for all travelers.
新西兰要求所有旅客在酒店隔离10天。
Note that the words “put” and “place” appear before “under quarantine” in our examples.
请注意，在例句中，put和place出现在under quarantine之前。
Often there is an official organization taking this kind of action.
通常会有一个官方组织采取这种行动。
You can also find examples of putting or placing someone “in quarantine,” but they are less common.
你也可以找到putting或placing someone in quarantine的说法，但不太常见。
The short answer to your question, Samuel, is that you would not be wrong to use either “under” or “in” before the word quarantine in your example,
塞缪尔，对你的问题的简短回答是，在你给的例句中，在quarantine之前用under或in都不算错，
but English speakers would be more likely to use “under quarantine” after the verb “put” in the statement:
但英语使用者更有可能在put之后用under quarantine：
When he arrived in Hefei, he was put under quarantine in a quarantine hotel.
当他到达合肥时，他被隔离在一家隔离酒店里。
And that’s Ask a Teacher. I’m Jill Robbins.
以上就是《名师答疑》。我是吉尔·罗宾斯。
