抗击艾滋病毒取得重大进展

be expected to预计
例句：House prices are expected to perk up.
预计房价会上涨。

2. In the early days, before the illness had a name, it was called slim disease, because people were wasting away.

waste away变得衰弱〔消瘦〕
例句：They wasted away for lack of food.
由于食物的缺乏, 他们越来越虚弱了。

3. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, HIV accounted for two-thirds of all adult deaths.

account for占有，占...百分比
例句：APEC members account for more than half of the world's economic output.
亚太经合组织成员的经济总量在世界占一半以上。

4. “Meaning that virtually no child will be born with HIV infection; that adults living with HIV don’t progress to AIDS; that there is a rapid decline in HIV incidence; that combination prevention can turn the tide on the HIV epidemic just as combination antiretroviral treatment can turn the tide on infection in an individual,” he said.

be born with天生具有
例句：Man is born with instinct for language.
人天生具有语言才能。

5. Frieden said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has played a major role in fighting HIV/AIDS and other diseases.

play a role in在...起作用
例句：The headmaster plays an important role in the good running of a school.
办好一所学校, 校长起重要作用。

6. The goal is to get many more on antiretroviral treatment, eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, also known as vertical transmission, and get many more men circumcised to prevent HIV infection.

known as被认为是，被称为
例句：Radio, television, newspapers and magazines are known as the mass media.
广播、电视、报纸和杂志被称为大众传媒。

7. Frieden does expect some protests at AIDS 2012, possibly over budget cuts as nations struggle to recover from the global recession.

recover from恢复, 痊愈
例句：That country hasn't yet recovered from the effects of the war.
战争结束以来, 那个国家尚未恢复元气。

8. The HIV advocacy community, I think, showed the way for people suffering from a wide variety of health conditions to demand better treatment, to demand faster results, to demand access to the latest information

suffer from因(疾病)而痛或不舒服;因...而更糟;受...之苦
例句：She often suffers from headaches.
她常常头痛。