VOA慢速英语:Scientists Search for New Ways to Treat Infection

1. Today, we report on the search for new ways to treat infections.

search for 寻求
例句：The search for peace also means the search for justice. 
寻求和平也意味着寻求正义。 

2. Fleming and two other scientists, Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey, went on to win the Nobel Prize in nineteen forty-five.

go on 继续
例句：Are you rested enough to go on? 
你是否歇够了可以接着干了? 

3. She says it looks like a flying saucer carrying a pair of warheads.

look like 像
例句：He doesn't look like a dead fox. 
他不象一只死狐狸。 

4. It connects to the surface of the bacterium and then cuts,through the outside to destroy it.

cut through 穿过
例句：He cut through a forest to get home. 
他穿过一片森林才到家。 

5. We sort of see that there's a bit of resistance being built up in the bacterial community almost, and some of our antibiotics aren't quite as effective as they used to be.

built up 建立
例句：The factory has built up reserve fund.
这个工厂已积累了后备基金。

6. But an effective human treatment in the form of a pill or nasal spray may be at least ten years away.

at least 至少
例句：At least two yeas of experience.
至少有两年的经验。

7. studying the DNA can show where a virus came from, how it changed over time and how it is related to other viruses.

come from 来自
例句：I come from the south of china.
我来自中国的南方。
be related to 与...有关
例句：Who is related to you? 
谁是和你相关的人？ 

8. They studied them across one hundred three languages, including twenty that are no longer spoken.

no longer 不再
例句：It must know how to go away when its services are no longer required. 
当不再需要这种服务时，这种帮助应该消失。  
 
9. For example, in English and other Germanic languages, the word for "water" sounds something like the English word "water" or "wasser" in German.

for example 例如
例句：For example, it can easily remember such things as: 
例如，它可以轻易地记住下面这些信息。 

10. One of the best things about this kind of experiment is that it did not wake the volunteers.

kind of 有点儿
例句：Yhe judge felt kind of sore.
法官真有点儿生气。