VOA常速英语:Study: Millions of Newborns Die Needlessly

短语讲解：

1. This is a huge number of deaths.

a huge number of大量的
例句：His knowledge is culled from a huge number of sources 
他的知识是从广征博采中积累而得的。 

2. Newborn deaths make up over 40 percent of child deaths worldwide.

make up组成, 构成
例句：The audience was made up of very young children.
观众由小孩子们组成。

3. India, along with Nigeria, Pakistan, China and the Democratic Republic of Congo, accounts for more than half of the 3.3 million deaths.

account for占有，占...百分比
例句：APEC members account for more than half of the world's economic output.
亚太经合组织成员的经济总量在世界占一半以上。

4. “So lack of care at the time of birth, having a midwife, having access to safe care at birth would save the baby and the mother,” said Lawn.

lack of 缺乏
例句：He can not buy it because of his lack of money.
他因缺钱买不起这个。

5. And she nearly died and I would have died if people hadn’t made a difference

make a difference有关系；有影响；有意义; 区别对待
例句：What you have told me may make a difference to my own position. 
你告诉我的一切，可能影响我自己的看法。 

6. The report says even the United States is not immune from the problem.

be immune from不受…的影响; 免除
例句：Being the only son in the family, the young man was immune from military service.
由于是独子, 那个年轻人被免于服兵役。