VOA慢速英语:A Room Where Nurses Learn How Not to Get Hurt

短语讲解：

1. Nurses spend their lives helping other people recover from injuries and illnesses.

recover from恢复, 痊愈
例句：Has he recovered from his illness?
他的病好了吗?

2. Lifting and moving patients improperly leads to sprains, strains and muscle tears -- leading causes of injuries to nurses.

lead to导致, 引起
例句：Smoking can lead to lung cancer.抽烟可能导致肺癌。

3. We have a mannequin that we can fill up with water and he becomes a three-hundred-and-fifty-pound mannequin that they have to learn to use this transfer equipment to get patients in and out of bed or from another bed to a stretcher.

fill up with用……装满
例句：The canal would soon fill up with mud if not regularly dredged.
这条运河如果不经常疏浚，就会淤塞。

4. But she says the equipment is often pushed back in a corner somewhere -- unused and forgotten.

push back使撤退, 使回到原处
例句：She kept pushing back wisps of hair that fell over her eyes.
她不断地把垂下来挡住她眼睛的头发撩回去。

5. If we provide an environment where everything’s nice and quiet and they can give their medications or they can communicate to a physician when there’s nothing going on, that’s not really a real-life setting.

go on发生
例句：Tell me what's going on over there!
告诉我那边发生了什么事儿。

6. The University of Missouri describes it as one of the first of its kind at a nursing school in the United States.

describe as描述为
例句：I should describe the attempt as a failure.
我认为这次尝试失败了。