VOA慢速英语:Study: Women Prefer to Go to Female Health Workers

短语讲解：

1. “Most women are not expected to be living on their own, providing health care essentially 24/7, or riding around meeting with families in the scattered hamlets.”

be expected to 被期待做某事; 有望做某事; 期许
例句：That could hardly be expected to last.
这很难预计将持续多久。

2. Male health workers do travel from town to town, but many women patients do not want to talk with a man about their own health care needs.

talk with 与…交谈，想说服
例句：You can talk with my deputy during my absence. 
我不在时,你可与我的代理人谈。 

3. That way, one could go out on home visits while the other was available to provide services in the clinic.

go out 外出; 出国
例句：Don' t go out without a coat : you' ll catch your death. 
别不穿外套出去, 会得重感冒的。