VOA慢速英语:How Pain Treatment Has Improved in Recent Years

短语讲解：

1. Over the years, however, medical studies have led to new hope for patients who are hurting. And, an international movement known as hospice has helped bring attention to difficult-to-treat pain for the dying.

lead to导致, 引起
例句：In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results.
在一定条件下, 一件坏事可以导致好的结果。
bring attention to注意到
例句：Please bring your attention to the center aisle as the flight attendant explains the safety rules.
航班服务员讲解安全注意事项时，请您注意中间过道。

2. Doctors speak of three kinds of pain: acute, chronic and breakthrough.

speak of谈到, 讲到
例句：They spoke of the old days on the campus.
他们谈起昔日的校园生活。

3. Chronic pain may go away, but it often comes back.

go away消失；停止，停息
例句：The pain will go away soon.
疼痛马上会减轻。
come back恢复原状，重新流行
例句：I don't think short skirts will ever come back.
我认为短裙将不会重新流行。

4. The Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City has been a leader in pain research and treatments linked to cancer. The center’s Doctor Kathleen Foley has been responsible for part of that gain.

link to与…连接; 联系
例句：Fingerprints linked the suspect to the crime.
指纹使嫌疑犯与犯罪联系起来。
be responsible for为…负责,形成…的原因
例句：Everyone should be responsible for his work
每个人都应对自己的工作负责。

5. The head of the center’s office dealing with the nervous system said nobody else knew about it, either.

deal with应付, 处理; 对待; 论述, 涉及
例句：This book deals with life in the United States.
这本书谈的是美国的生活情况。

6. Today many doctors order pain medicines for dying patients to be given before suffering takes hold.

take hold抓住；扛着；固定下来
例句：He did not let his anger take hold of him.
他设有让怒气使自己失去控制。

7. In those days, religious workers cared for sick travelers at shelters near holy places.

care for照料, 服侍
例句：The mother cared for the sick child day and night.
母亲日夜照料着生病的孩子。

8. Hospice care is not limited to the dying.

be limited to被限制在...上
例句：The expenses should be limited to what you can really afford.
费用不应超出你们偿还能力的限度。

9. The Foundation says seven thousand people die in parts of Africa every day from conditions resulting from AIDS.

result from产生于…, 由…引起
例句：His failure resulted from not working hard enough.
他的失败是工作不够努力造成的。

10. The report said methadone was involved in forty percent of the deaths.

be involved in卷入，陷入; 涉及,专心
例句：He is involved in the case.
他同这桩案子有干系。