VOA慢速英语:How a 1959 Discovery Saves Premature Babies Today

1. We told you last week about a study which found that more than ten percent of all babies worldwide are born too early.

more than 多于
例句：Rob likes apples more than bananas. 
罗勃对苹果比对香蕉还喜欢。

2. At night she worked in a hospital delivery room.

work in 在...地方工作
例句：Do you work in marketing? 
你在市场推广部工作吗? 

3. And you can spend months trying to prove something, only to find that you made some terrible mistakes and you have to be willing to say 'six months of my life and my hard work went downthe drain,' and you have to start over -- that's terrible discouragement.

be willing to 乐于，愿意
例句：He is willing to go through the mill. 
他愿接受磨炼。 
go down 落下
例句：He got home before the sun went down.
太阳下山前他到了家。

4. Dr. Anne Hansen in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Children's Hospital Boston remembers the first time she heard about Dr. Avery.

hear about 听说
例句： I was sorry to hear about your illness. 
听说你病了，我很难过。