VOA常速英语:Billion People Suffer from Neglected Tropical Diseases

短语讲解：

1. A billion people around the world suffer from neglected tropical diseases, and the global health community is working to develop new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics.

suffer from因(疾病)而痛或不舒服;因...而更糟;受...之苦
例句：She often suffers from headaches.
她常常头痛。

2. The international collaboration, committed to developing and delivering new drugs and therapies, has launched a four-year program for diagnosis and treatment of kala azar in India and Bangladesh.

commit to对…作出承诺, 承担义务, 担负责任; 使(自己)致力于…
例句：He has committed himself to the cause of education.
他已决心献身教育事业。

3. But scientists working there say that people in the region do not benefit from new therapies because their governments lack standardized guidelines for testing new drugs.

benefit from通过…获益
例句：He thought he would benefit from going to school.
他认为上学对他有好处。

4. A new report from the Center for Global Development - a public policy research institute - says that scores of medicines for deadly infections are caught in a "regulatory labyrinth" [complex bureaucracy] that slows progress.

catch in卡住，夹住；缠住; 遇上雨, 被雨淋; 当场抓住
例句：He was caught in the rain and got wet through last night.
昨夜他碰上下雨, 全身都湿透了。

5. “Very large number of really important and promising products that are in the clinical development pipeline nearing stage three clinical trials which is the last stage, yet the process to get through the clinical trials is very involved, very costly, very inefficient," said Glassman.

get through (使)通过考试；(使)达到标准
例句：John has got through the examination.
约翰已经通过考试了。

6. There are 90 potentially life-saving drugs in the pipeline waiting to be tested.

in the pipeline在考虑(或规划、准备) 中； 在酿中
例句：Important changes are already in the pipeline.
重大的变革已在酝酿之中。

7. “If they can agree on rules of the game and they can empower a regional institution to make sure that the rules of the game are met then they are gonna get better quality of information," said Glassman.

agree on对某事〔物〕有同样看法, 商定〔同意〕某事, 商定做某事
例句：We agree on the question.
我们在这个问题上意见一致。