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乳腺癌或与压力有关

2011-09-24来源:VOA

短语讲解:
1. compared the stress scores with the race of the patient and the aggressiveness of their cancers.

compare... with 与...作比较
例句: How does your new house compare with your old one? 
你的新房子和旧房子比起来怎么样? 

2. And we also found that patients reporting greater stress were more likely to have more aggressive tumors.

be likely to 可能,倾向于
例句:Remain at a price or be likely to rise. 
停在一个价位上或有可能上升。 

3. But researchers can't decide if that's because minority women are somehow more susceptible to aggressive tumors.

susceptible to 易受...影响的
例句:It will be more susceptible to attack by hydroxyl ion. 
它更容易被羟基离子所作用。 

4. The researchers were only able to do the stress interview after women were diagnosed with breast cancer.

be able to do 能做某事
例句:No one is able to do it. 
没有人能干这事。