和谐英语

VOA常速英语:Doctor Fights Cervical Cancer in Developing Countries

2011-09-21来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Eight hundred women die of cervical cancer every day, nearly 300,000 each year worldwide.

die of死于
例句:People are dying of cancer more and more often.
死于癌症的人越来越多了。

2. Six years ago, Taylor gave up a successful medical practice in the San Francisco Bay Area to start the non-profit organization Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer. PINCC, pronounced “pink,” operates out of Taylor’s house in Oakland, California.

give up放弃
例句:The girl gave up halfway.
这女孩中途放弃。

3. The bedrooms have been converted to office space and her living room is overflowing with medical supplies and equipment.

overflow with充满…
例句:The stands were overflowing with farm and sideline products.
集市上农副产品非常丰富。

4. We go back every six months until the groups are well trained, confident and competent.

go back回去
例句:Let's go back home now.
咱们现在回家吧。

5. Nurse practitioner Cheryl Brown is getting final instructions from PINCC staff before leaving for Uganda with Taylor.

leave for出发去(某地)
例句:She left London for New York last year.
她去年离开伦敦去了纽约。

6. Taylor and her teams have set up 30 medical sites which screen and treat thousands of women annually.

set up建立, 创立, 竖立
例句:Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。

7. But every time I go, it stimulates me to want to keep going and come back and open new programs because I see these women whose lives are saved.

come back回来
例句:I'm going away and I may never come back.
我要走了, 可能永远不再回来。

8. And she has another goal where the disease is concerned; she hopes she'll be around to see cervical cancer wiped out for good.

wipe out消灭;彻底摧毁
例句:They have wiped out the enemy's major military targets.
他们已彻底摧毁了敌人的主要军事目标。