VOA常速英语:New Procedure Could Get More TB Patients Treated

短语讲解：

1. An international team of researchers has found that revised protocols for diagnosing tuberculosis may be more user-friendly for patients and help bring more people into treatment, especially in poorer countries.

bring into使达到…; 把…拿入, 带入(某处)
例句：Another new nation has been brought into being.
又一个新国家诞生了。

2. In many places around the world where tuberculosis is a major threat, suspected cases are diagnosed by looking through a microscope for the TB bacteria in sputum - the mixture of saliva and mucus that the patient coughs up.

look through穿过…看
例句：I looked through a telescope.
我用望远镜看东西。
cough up咳出
He coughed up the candy that was stuck in his throat.
他把卡在喉咙里的糖果咳出来了。

3. Under current protocol, three specimens are collected on two consecutive days - one "on-the-spot" in the clinic, one the next morning at home, and then a third "spot" sample when the patient returns to the clinic.

return to返回到…
例句：News of the astronauts' safe return to earth was delayed.
宇航员安全返回地球的消息被推迟。

4. And if you use the new scheme, you end up with exactly the same result.

end up with以…而结束
例句：We started with soup, and fruit to end up with.
我们开始时喝汤，最后吃水果。

5. Whether you do it one way or another, you end up with the same number of cases.

whether or是…还是
例句：Whether it rains or not, we are playing football on Saturday.
无论下不下雨，我们星期六一定踢足球。

6. Not only that, the results from examining just the first two specimens identified most TB-positive patients.

not only不但;不仅;不只
例句：He spoke not only one language.
韩佳：他可不止说了一种语言呢。

7. What we see very frequently is that accessing the diagnosis for TB is often a barrier to access treatment for TB. So, facilitating a rapid diagnosis is very key to improve access to treatment.

access to有权使用；到某地的通道
例句：. Students need easy access to books.
学生需要得到借书的便利。

8. There are more high-tech diagnostic tests for tuberculosis, but they are as much as 15 times more expensive than microscopic examination of the sputum, so in resource-poor countries the less costly diagnosis procedure is likely to remain dominant.

be likely to可能; 倾向于; 很可能
例句：Prices are likely to steady.
价格可能会稳定下来。