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许多非洲男性未能获得艾滋治疗

2012-02-14来源:VOA
短语讲解:
1. Researchers are calling for a more balanced approach to gender in fighting the epidemic.

call for需要
例句:Your plan will call for a lot of money.
你的计划需要许多钱。

2. And after several years of observing this, I came around to discussing this with my colleagues and they say, no, no, this is it. These are the men who show up.

come around造访, 过访
例句:Why don't you come around and see us one evening?
你何不找个晚上过来看看我们?
show up到场, 出席,如约赶到,出现,露面
例句:He promised to come on Tuesday but he never showed up.
他答应星期二来, 可是一直未露面。

3. Then I was able to look into testing centers, which is where people go and get tested.

look into在...里查资料;深入地检查,研究;调查
例句:The government will look into how to reduce unemployment.
政府将研究如何降低失业率。

4. And so somewhere in between the time of testing and the time of accessing clinical care we’re missing out on these men

miss out错过机会
例句:He missed out on a chance to go to college because of his ill health.
他因身体不好, 失去了上大学的机会。

5. Mills said that the men are often very shamed that they are HIV positive and afraid of what their wives will say.

afraid of害怕
例句:Are you afraid of dogs?
你怕狗吗?

6. It’s possible that with the increase in male circumcision that’s going on that’s happening for young males, in their adolescents or early 20s, that that could be an opportunity to test them and counsel them and try to engage them in care.

engage in参加; 从事; 忙于
例句:I have no time to engage in the debate.
我没时间参加辩论。

7. But to be honest I think we need to take this at a much larger scale; and we need to start implementing public health campaigns that are aimed at targeting men’s behavior around accessing health care

aim at (以…)瞄准; 针对, 以…为目标
例句:The visit was aimed at expanding the relations between the two countries.
访问的目的是扩展两国的关系。

8. He said women, whether African or not, often do better with health care because they are more in tune with their bodies.

in tune with与......协调, 与......一致
例句:His ideas are in tune with the times.
他的思想适合时代的潮流。

9. Also, women frequently learn of their HIV status while receiving care during pregnancy.

learn of听说…
例句:They offered help as soon as they learned of the accident.
他们一听说这件意外就立即提供了帮助。