VOA慢速英语:Child Vaccine Efforts Get Big Boost

短语讲解：

1. That group, known as the GAVI Alliance, held a pledging conference Monday in London.

known as被认为是，被称为
例句：This property is known as ductility.
这个性能叫做延展性。
pledging conference认捐会议

2. Last week, the group announced an agreement by vaccine makers to cut prices for developing countries.

developing countries发展中国家
例句：In some developing countries more and more people are migrating to urban areas.
在某些发展中的国家,越来越多的人向市区迁移。

3. These lower prices, combined with the money raised this week, could protect an extra two hundred fifty million children.

combine with与…结合
例句：If he can combine his ability with hard work, he should be very successful.
如果他能把自己的才能和勤奋结合起来, 必定会很有成就。

4. GAVI’s goal over the next five years, by twenty-fifteen, is to immunize millions more children and save an additional four million children’s lives, purely by providing basic vaccines against diseases that are basically almost non-existent in rich countries, as well as providing new vaccines against pneumonia, diarrheal diseases and then hopefully HPV and some other vaccine-preventable diseases.

as well as除…之外(也)，同…一样(也)，和，也，还
例句：Harry has knowledge as well as experience .
哈利有知识，并且有经验。

5. HPV is the human papillomavirus, which can lead to cervical cancer.

lead to导致, 引起
例句：An ordinary cold can soon lead to a fever.
一场普通的感冒很快便会引起高烧。

6. The Merck company has agreed to offer GAVI the HPV vaccine at five dollars a dose.

agree to同意, 赞成, 同意照办
例句：He did not agree to Eason taking up the job.
他不赞成伊森承担这项工作。

7. The thing is that in the United States or in Europe children usually have good access to medical care -- so rehydration, antibiotics, hospitalization.

have access to接近（或进入）的方法（或权利、机会等）
例句：Students must have access to good books.
学生应该读得到好书。

8. Children in poor countries, on the other hand, usually do not.

on the other hand在另一方面
例句：On the other hand, many women choose to go out to work.
另一方面, 许多妇女又选择外出工作。

9. So, by the time a mother brings her child to a clinic after having diarrhea, that child is near death.

by the time 到…时候为止
例句：He had left by the time we reached home.
当我们到家的时候他已经走了。
bring to把…带给(某人), 带往(某处)
例句：She was brought to my home.
她是被人带到我家来的。

10. And oftentimes the antibiotics and the services are not available to save the child’s life.

be available to可被…利用或得到的
例句：Elementary education should be available to all children.
所有的儿童都应当接受初等教育。

11. The GAVI Alliance says almost two million children a year die from diseases that vaccines can prevent.

die from死于
例句：Many people die from famine in Africa.
在非洲许多人死于饥荒。