VOA慢速英语:Why Hands-Free Faucets May Be a Risk to Some Hospital Patients

  短语讲解：

1. Another reason is because of concerns about the spread of infection by people touching the handles on traditional faucets.

because of 因为，由于
例句：I came back because of the rain.
因为下雨, 所以我回来了。

2. Researcher took apart twenty automatic faucets at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

take apart 拆卸，拆开
例句：It's easy to take a watch apart but difficult to put it together again.
把表拆开容易, 装起来难。

3. They found that half contained Legionella bacteria, compared to fifteen percent of manual faucets.

compare to 与…相比
例句：The writer was compared to Shakespeare.
把这个作家与莎士比亚进行了比较。

4. But Legionella bacteria can cause a form of pneumonia in people with weakened immune systems.

immune systems 免疫系统

5. But they found that twenty-nine percent of the automatic faucets were still contaminated with bacteria.

be contaminated with 被…所污染
例句：Cereal grains growing in the field are contaminated with a large number of fungus.  
 在田间生长的谷物感染了大量的霉菌。

6. We think that, one, the pieces and the parts inside are sort of providing places and surface area for bacteria to get trapped and probably promoting something called bio-film formation, which is essentially just a colony of bacteria that can sort of coexist in a little slime and a little, almost a little colony of it that it’s hard to get rid of.

sort of 有几分地
例句：Dad seemed to take your going sort of hard. 
你父亲看来非常舍不得离开你。
get rid of 除掉，去掉，摆脱
例句：It is difficult to get rid of insects.
除掉虫子可不容易。

7. We’ve been a long-term supplier for an awful lot of health care facilities in the U.S. and we're more than interested to find out what those findings would be."

an awful lot of 极多的，非常多的
例句：That' s an awful lot of money. 
那是很多很多的钱。