VOA常速英语:Doctors Achieve Milestone Using Artificial Heart With No Beat

短语讲解：

1. But the patient, who suffered from other grave illnesses, eventually died after he and his family decided not to prolong treatment.

suffer from患(某种病); 受(某种病痛)折磨; 因(疾病)而痛或不舒服
例句：You must have suffered from a cold.
你一定是感冒了。

2. But it hasn't kept pace with the need for devices that can keep patients alive until they can get a real organ transplant.

keep pace with保持同步, 与…齐步前进
例句：We should keep pace with the swift tempo of the day.
我们应跟上时代的飞速步伐。

3. That is where various types of artificial pumps have come into play.

come into play积极活动, 起作用
例句：All your faculties have come into play in your work.
在你的工作中, 你的全部才能已起到了作用。

4. Last month, at the Texas Children's Hospital here in Houston, Jordan Merecka, 17, became the first patient in a U.S. pediatric hospital to have his congenitally deformed heart removed and replaced with an external mechanical heart pump.

replace with用…代替
例句：We've replaced the old machine with a computer.
我们用电脑取代了那台旧机器。

5. Meeting with reporters a few days ago, he told how he almost ran out of time, waiting to have the procedure.

run out of用完，耗尽
例句：Jimmy has run out of money.
吉米已经把钱花光了。

6. It uses a small spinning turbine to keep blood flowing at a steady rate rather than a pump that mimics the action of the heart found in humans or in the calves the doctors have used for trials.

rather than而不是
例句：They thus increased their annual grain production rather than diminished it.
他们这样增加了而不是减少了粮食年产量。
use for作…用
例句：We used the seal's fur for coats.
我们用海豹皮做大衣。

7. Doctors Frazier and Cohn carried out the first successful implant of a continuous-flow artificial heart in a 55-year-old man here in Houston in March.

carry out进行
例句：They also carry out experiments.
他们还进行实验。

8. The patient later died because of conditions unrelated to the heart operation, but Cohn says the implanted heart worked well.

because of因为, 由于
例句：It was because of the job that he had taken the flat.
他因为工作的原因租了那套公寓。

9. Frazier says that while this may sound exotic and dangerous, the use of plutonium for such medical devices goes back to the 1970s, when they were used in heart pacemakers and studied closely.

go back to追溯到
例句：Rights of common go back to Anglo-Saxon times. 
公地使用权可以追溯到盎格鲁-撒克逊时代。

10. "The thing we were concerned about was increased instance of malignancies, but we followed over a thousand of those patients over 20 years and there was no increased instance," Frazier explained.

be concerned about 关心,挂念
例句：Everybody is concerned about the future of his country.
每个人都关心自己国家的前途。

11. Science fiction writers have speculated that one day there might be "bionic" humans, partially made up of artificial components that make them more powerful than normal people.

be made up of由…组成
例句：Switzerland is made up of 22 cantons.
瑞士是由二十二个州所组成的。