VOA常速英语:Heavy Coffee Drinkers Less Likely to Get Lethal Prostate Cancer

短语讲解：

1. A new study finds that men who drink a lot of coffee are less likely to develop potentially fatal prostate cancer.

be likely to可能; 倾向于; 很可能
例句：Many jobs are likely to be lost.
就业机会可能会大量流失。
prostate cancer前列腺癌

2. But lead author Kathryn Wilson of the Harvard School of Public Health says the real difference showed up when the researchers looked at the most serious prostate cancers.

show up显而易见; 使显示出
例句：The quiz showed up Cane's weak points in physics.
这次测验看出了凯恩在物理学方面的弱点。

3. Coffee is a chemically complex brew, full of antioxidants and other compounds that may affect the development of prostate cancer.

full of充满
例句：Mary's heart was full of distress.
玛丽的心里充满痛苦。

4. Wilson says it's unclear what component or components in coffee may be reducing the prostate cancer risk - that's a target for future research.

a target for …的目标
例句：He is a target for scorn.
他是嘲笑的目标。

5. In the meantime, she says it's too soon to say that men should drink more coffee just to reduce their risk of aggressive prostate cancer.

in the meantime在此期间, 同时
例句：In the meantime, crime continues unabated.
同时，犯罪率并没减少。

6. But she says there is a growing body of scientific evidence that coffee confers a variety of real health benefits.

a variety of多种的,各种各样的
例句：Iron has a variety of uses.
铁有多种用处。

7. It's not harmful in terms of heart disease or stroke, and it seems possibly protective for liver cancer, and it's also associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes.

be associated with和…联系在一起, 与…有关
例句：The doctor was associated in the child's mind with injections and pains.
在孩子的心里, 医生总是使他联想到打针与疼痛。