VOA慢速英语:Dr. Anthony Fauci: America’s Man on Infectious Diseases

短语讲解：

1. His name is Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. Some Americans may never have heard of him, but his work affects tens of millions of people.

hear of 知道; 同意; 得悉
例句：I am distressed to hear of it.
本人获悉此情，深感痛心。

2. So, I figured the best way to combine an aptitude toward science with a desire to do something that strongly that relates to people and taking care of people, you put all of those things together and you come up with the field of medicine, in my mind.

take care of 照顾
例句：I' ll take care of the affairs of office.
我来处理办公室的日常事务。
come up with 想出; 提出; 追赶上
例句：Slow down a bit and let me come up with you.
跑慢一点让我赶上吧。

3. He helped change rules in order to approve drugs for the virus and the disease.

in order to 为了…
例句：He must work very hard in order to support his large family.
他必须拼命工作以养活他的大家庭。

4. In time, these new treatments turned HIV/AIDS into a manageable condition. An HIV or AIDS diagnosis was no longer a death sentence.

no longer 不再，已不
例句：He could no longer hold back his tears.
他再也忍不住自己的眼泪。

5. When we first got involved in studying what turned out to be AIDS, we didn’t even know what the agent is that caused AIDS.

turn out 关掉; 结果是; 制造
例句：Be calm and sit tight and everything will turn out well.
保持镇静，听其自然，一切都会好转。

6. One of the moments, among the few, and I'll just mention a few, that I’m most proud of in my life, my role as the director of an institute that funds most of the research in infectious diseases and the drive toward the development to what now turns out to be lifesaving therapies for a number of diseases, but particularly HIV/AIDS.

a number of 一些; 许多的
例句：We had to face up to a number of seemingly contradictory concerns.
我们不得不正视若干看起来相互矛盾的问题。