VOA常速英语:Social Media Tracks Haiti's Cholera Epidemic

at the same time同时; 一起
例句：All speak at the same time.
大家同时说。

2. "So we found that there were similar patterns, like when the number of cases went up, so did the amount of this informal media, and as well when the number of cases was coming down, this pattern continued in the informal media," she says.

go up 上升, 上涨, 提高, 增加, 增高
例句：The temperature is going up; will the snow melt?
气温正逐渐上升, 雪会融化吗?
come down 跌落
例句：The price of coal has come down this week.
本周煤价跌落下来。

3. For their study, Chunara and her colleagues looked at news reports and other online information aggregated on the four-year-old website HealthMap.org, plus Twitter messages that mentioned cholera using the Research.ly search platform.

look at看, 注视
例句：My work hasn't been looked at for a week.
我干了一个星期的工作也没人看一眼。

4. In contrast, news and social media reports can be much quicker, "but it doesn't go through a rigorous evaluation process.

in contrast相比之下
例句：It was cold yesterday, but in contrast it's very hot today.
昨天天气寒冷, 而相比之下今天却很热。
go through遭受, 经受, 经历
例句：When he was a child, he went through one hardship after another.
孩提时代, 他经历了一个又一个的艰难困苦。

5. So it would be a good kind of indicator that something's about to happen or maybe a way to calculate epidemiological patterns in real time to just get an assessment of what's going on and to be able to deploy control measures a lot quicker

go on发生
例句：Tell me what's going on over there!
告诉我那边发生了什么事儿。

6. As social media and other new information sources expand, Chunara says, their usefulness in the field of public health is also likely to grow.

be likely to可能; 倾向于; 很可能
例句：John is likely to be in London this autumn.
今年秋天约翰可能在伦敦。