VOA常速英语:Experts Stress Use of Vaccines in Controlling Chronic Disease

短语讲解：

1. Health experts at the recent U.N. General Assembly in New York focused attention on new ways to combat the rise of non-communicable diseases, or NCDs, including some caused by infectious diseases that could be prevented with vaccines.

focus on集中于，致力于
例句：He focused his mind on his lessons.
他把心思集中在功课上。

2. That connection adds new urgency to the worldwide drive to immunize.

add to增加, 加强
例句：The office looked exactly the same as before, only some charts were added to the wall.
办公室里还是那个老样子, 只是墙上多了一些图表。

3. Every 20 seconds, a child dies of a vaccine-preventable disease.

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。

4. A number of what we call NCDs turn out to be infectious diseases. 

turn out结果是, 原来是
例句：He said he was a doctor; but later he turned out to be a cheat.
他自称是个医生, 结果证明他是个骗子。

5. We’ve had a lot of success getting rid of hepatitis B, which is the largest cause of liver cancer and we are hoping with the Human Papilloma Virus [HPV vaccine] to be able to get rid of cervical cancer

get rid of除掉, 去掉
例句：He can't get rid of the cold.
他的感冒老是好不了。

6. Berkley also says his organization is rolling out some new vaccines to combat the two most common causes of childhood deaths: pneumonia and diarrhea.

roll out大量生产
例句：Our factory rolls out 8,000 bottles of beer every day.
我们工厂每天生产8 000 瓶啤酒。

7. “The rotavirus vaccine: the largest cause of viral diarrhea in the developing world, the pneumococcal vaccine which works against the bacteria the pneumococcus, which not only causes pneumonia one of the largest killers in the developing world and can also cause meningitis,” Berkley said.

work against 对…产生消极影响；竭力反对；妨碍
例句：Her testimony works against his chance of success as a politician.
她的证词使他作为一个政治家很难有成功的机会。

8. In the U.S., measles were eliminated and turned to the history books in the 60s and 70s.

turn to (使)变成; 翻书到; 转向
例句：Water turns to ice at 0℃.
水在零摄氏度时变成冰。