VOA常速英语:Computers Evaluate Cancer Biopsies

短语讲解：

1. Since the early 20th century, pathologists have been squinting into microscopes, looking for a handful of features in biopsied tumor samples that enable them to classify how aggressive the cancer is.

look for寻找(某人或某物)
例句：Some birds are looking for food.
有些鸟在寻找食物。

2. Today, armed with sophisticated software, powerful computers are getting quite skilled at pattern recognition.

arm with用…武装; 向…提供
例句：The crowd were armed with broken bottles.
那帮人手中备有碎酒瓶子。

3. To do that, Daphne Koller and her colleagues started with a set of biopsy slides that are used to train pathologists.

be used to do被用来做……
例句：Zip codes are used to facilitate mail service. 
邮政编码方便了邮递服务。 

4. "And we plugged it into a machine-learning algorithm that looked at survival data," she said, "and tried to figure out which of those features were good features in terms of survival, which were bad features, and which were not relevant at all."

plug into把(电器)插头插入；利用电子设备与…接通；与…通话；收听；收看
例句：Plug the radio into the tape recorder to tape the programme.
把收音机插头插入录音机录下这个节目。
figure out弄明白，理解; 计算出; 解决;想出
例句：I have figured out how much during the week I spent.
我算出了这个星期花了多少钱。
in terms of就…而言, 从…方面说来
例句：He thought of everything in terms of money.
他是从钱的角度来看每一件事。

5. "It turned out that some of the most significant features were in parts of the tumor that pathologists don't look at at all right now.

turn out结果是, 原来是
例句：It turned out that he was never there.
原来他根本没去过那儿。

6. It actually did better than human pathologists, although Koller stresses that C-Path is not designed to replace doctors looking through microscopes.

look through穿过…看
例句：I looked through a telescope.
我用望远镜看东西。

7. She says the computerized system could have its biggest impact in resource-poor settings - in developing countries, for example - where skilled pathologists are in short supply.

in short supply供不应求
例句：Food is in short supply.
食物供应不足。

8. Our technology can be easily applied even over the Web, where a local physician extracts a sample and puts it on a slide and scans it into a computer and sends it over the net, and out comes a prediction about survival and ultimately other aspects of the sample that can help guide treatment.

put on穿上, 戴上; 把…放在…上
例句：Put the plates gently on the table, they are very delicate.
把碟子轻轻放在桌上, 这些碟子非常易碎。