VOA常速英语:As Global Deaths Decline, AIDS Research Funding Slips

短语讲解：

1. A new United Nations report says the number of people worldwide becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has dropped by 21 percent since the global epidemic peaked in 1997.

infect with把…传染给…
例句：The man has been infected with cholera.
这人已染上了霍乱。

2. The more people you get on therapy, the earlier you diagnose it, the less deaths you will see, that’s good news.

get on进行
例句：I asked how he was getting on at school.
我问他在学校情况怎样。

3. The U.N. data show that in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, more than a million people are still dying of the disease every year.

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. But Dr. Fauci says pairing this treatment with proven prevention strategies is key to getting the epidemic under control.

under control处于控制之下; 被控制住
例句：The police kept the mob under control.
警察将暴徒制服。

5. The fact that you put people on treatment, get their viral load to a level that’s low enough, then it is extremely unlikely that those people will transmit the infection to their uninfected sexual partner.

put on穿上, 戴上; 把…放在…上
例句：The trees have put on their new coats of green.
树木披上了新绿。

6. “I think this report is telling us that it's just not time to pull out.  It is time to invest in AIDS because the results are there," Sidibe said.

pull out (从疾病、不愉快的心境等中)恢复
例句：She's been very depressed recently, but I'm sure she'll soon pull out of it.
她近来一直很抑郁, 但我相信不久她就会振作起来的。