CRI听力:Laughter to Cure Heart Disease

短语讲解：

1. They were brought in to watch serious dramas and comedies on separate days.

bring in把…拿进来, 带进来,引进
例句：The policeman brought in two boys whom he had caught stealing.
警察把两个当场抓获的小偷带到警察局。

2. The endothelium is the inner lining (of the) blood vessel and that's what we're looking at.

look at看, 注视(某人或某物)
例句：My work hasn't been looked at for a week.
我干了一个星期的工作也没人看一眼。

3. The inner lining of blood vessels is very important because there are chemicals and other messengers that are sent between the bloodstream and into our various tissues and basically serves to guard against noxious chemicals, if you will and protects us.

guard against避免, 预防
例句：The doctor must always guard against passing on disease to his family.
医生必须时常提防把疾病传染给他的家人。

4. If you have risk factors for heart disease, then that inner lining doesn't function as well and the idea here is that after stress, you're constricting the blood vessel because chemicals are produced to cause that reaction and over time those continued stressful reactions can have a damaging effect on the heart.

have an effect on对…有影响;对…起作用,产生效果
例句：This had a great effect on the future of both mother and son.
这对母子俩的将来影响很大。

5. Once the measurements have been taken the sonographer attaches the cuff back onto the volunteer's arm and he settles down to watching the traumatic story of "Saving Private Ryan".

settle down (使)安静下来, 平静下来,（使某人）安静下来
例句：You had better settle yourself down and start working.
你最好安下心来工作。

6. But Miller says more importantly he's keen to know whether a hearty chuckle, combined with a healthy lifestyle may help prevent heart disease.

be keen to热衷于
例句：The boy is keen to go to sea.
这孩子很想去航海。
combine with与…结合
例句：If he can combine his ability with hard work, he should be very successful.
如果他能把自己的才能和勤奋结合起来, 必定会很有成就。

7. The question really now is that we know that laughing appears to have a good effect on our cardiovascular system, but how does that translate into people that already have established heart disease.

translate into把…转化成
例句：We must make efforts to translate our ideal into reality.
我们必须努力把理想变为现实。