VOA慢速英语:Health Officials in Uganda Watching for New Cases of Ebola

1. The World Health Organization had reported a few weeks earlier that Ebola was no longer a threat in the country.

no longer 不再
例句：She is no longer a child.
她不再是小孩子了。

2. Ugandan Health Minister Christine Ondoa reported last month that two of the victims belonged to the same family.

belong to 属于
例句：They don't belong to anybody.
那些信息不属于任何人。

3. The health minister said people who had come into contact with the disease were being closely watched.

contact with 与…有交往[联系]
例句：You should keep in contact with him.
你应该与他保持联系。

4. There is no known cure for the disease.

cure for 治愈
例句：They set out to discover a cure for cancer.
他们开始寻找一种治疗癌症的方法。

5. Turkish military forces are guarding the area, which is now closed to the public.

close to 靠近
例句：The ship kept close to the coast.
那条船靠近海岸航行。

6. He began work at Karkemish as assistant to archeologist Leonard Woolley in 1911.

work at 从事于…
例句：I start work at nine in the morning.
我上午九点开始工作。

7. One of the things that’s really different about us humans, compared to our closest living relatives, the other great apes, is that we have these really long lifespans.
 
compare to 把…比作
例句：Yeah? How does this one compare to that?
真的?这把和那把比如何?

8. Professor Hawkes says grandmothering made humans more socially dependent on each other and, in her words, “prone to engage each other’ s attention.”

each other 互相
例句：You two know each other?
你们两个互相认识？