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BBC在线收听下载:大脑扫描或将能确诊抑郁症
短语讲解:
1. One is the very biological depression which we call 'melancholia', and where we do need to be able to identify this condition so that people with it can be properly treated.
be able to 能够; 能,会
例句:We must be able to stay impartial at all times.
我们必须经常保持公正的态度。
2. I think it builds an increasingly clearer story in terms of where the problems lie in the brain when people go into the 'black dog' melancholic depression.
in terms of 根据; 用…的话; 就…而言
例句:All banks measure profit in terms of earnings per share.
银行以每一股份的赢利额来计算自己的利润。
3. Neuroscientist and study leader Dr.Christine Guo says it's hoped their findings will lead to better diagnostic tests.
lead to 导致; 把…带到
例句:Economic models often lead to the study of systems of equations.
经济模型经常导致对方程组的研究。
4. Group leader Dr Micheal Breakspear says the findings will help doctors break through the often overlapping symptoms that people with depression present.
break through 攻破; 突围,突破
例句:This very successful effort did not result from break through of technology.
这种具大的成果并不来源于工艺上的突破。
5. A number of our recent brain imaging studies have found distinct sub-types of patterns of activity in the brain for people with depression.
a number of 一些; 许多的
例句:The vibrating object has executed a number of oscillations.
物体已经完成了许多次振动。
6. But neuroscience,in the last decade in particular,is moving to a model of looking at parts of the brain that are no longer connected, or they become disconnected during episodes of illness,and this study not only shows that people with melancholia have certain disconnections in the brain that people with non-melancholic depression and normal people don't show,even when depressed,it points at the areas of the brain that are involved and tells us something as to the actual causal process where things go wrong when people are in episode.
in particular 尤其, 特别
例句:He was not thinkingof anything in particular.
他的脑子里并没有特意想任何事。
no longer 不再,已不
例句:He could no longer hold back his tears.
他再也忍不住自己的眼泪。