VOA慢速英语:Tuberculosis Found in 18th Century Bodies

短语讲解：

1. Today, Tuberculosis -- or TB -- mostly affects poor people or those already infected with the AIDS virus.

infect with 把…传染给…;使充满（某种感情）
例句：Go away,I do not want to infect you with my cold.
走开，我可不想把我的感冒传染给你。

2. Sometimes the Europeans even had more than one kind of the disease.

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

3. Their bodies were kept at the Dominican Church in Vacs, Hungary. The remains were mummified – that is, they had not broken down.

break down 失败;划分（以便分析）;损坏;衰弱下
例句：The artificial distinctions of race also break down.
人为的种族差别也就会消除。

4. He says the new evidence shows people in the 18th century often suffered from several different strains of TB.

suffer from 患（某种病），受（某种病痛）折磨
例句：I often suffer from unaccountable headaches.
我常莫名其妙地头疼。

5. He says they may have passed the disease to each other.

each other 相互
例句：All things are interrelated and interact on each other.
一切事物互相联系并相互作用。