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药片为对抗雅司病带来新希望

2012-01-14来源:VOA
短语讲解:
1. It eats away at skin, cartilage, and bone, affecting an estimated half-million youngsters in Africa, Asia, and South America.

eat away侵蚀, 腐蚀, 锈蚀; 咬坏, 蛀坏
例句:The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.
大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。

2. "For every one case of active yaws that we see, the estimates are that there's up to eight cases of children infected with the yaws organism who don't present because they don't have symptoms at the time," says researcher Russell Hays, a physician at the remote Lihir Medical Center in Papua New Guinea.

infect with把…传染给…
例句:The man has been infected with cholera.
这人已染上了霍乱。

3. And so for that reason, just treating active cases when they come up will never eliminate the disease.

come up发生
例句:I expect something to come up soon.
我预料很快就要出事的。

4. While penicillin is effective, it also has its downsides: it requires syringes and trained health workers to inject the drug, the needles must be properly disposed of to prevent possible transmission of other disease, and there is a risk of an allergic reaction.

dispose of将(某物)处理掉
例句:We will have to dispose of the mice in the attic.
我们必须消灭阁楼里的老鼠。

5. From our point of view, we feel that the next logical step is to conduct a mass drug administration of azithromycin in a limited setting, and to then follow up that population and see if we can demonstrate that yaws can be eliminated from a particular location.

point of view观点
例句:He also absorbed the point of view of his teacher.
他也接受了他老师的观点。
follow up跟着; 追逐; 继续
例句:The chairman followed up with another question.
主席接着又提了一个问题。

6. In a commentary, also in The Lancet, tropical disease expert David Mabey, of the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, agrees with the need for more research.

agree with与某人〔观点〕一致, 同意〔赞同〕某人的意见
例句:She agrees with him about this matter.
她与他在这一问题上意见一致。