VOA常速英语:New Alzheimer's Research Raise Hope for Treatment, Cure

depend on依赖, 依靠
例句：You can't depend on your parents forever.
你不能永远依赖你的双亲。

2. Within our brain, one cell can transfer this tau protein to another cell and then that next cell will become diseased and transfer the tau protein to the next cell down the line.

transfer to移动到
例句：The company has transferred to an eastern location.
这家公司已搬到东部某地。

3. Eakin says not every research effort leads to a breakthrough, but the accumulated findings from many previous studies of Alzheimer's, using both animal and human subjects, have drawn a much clearer picture of how the disease devastates the brain.

lead to导致
例句：Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
抽烟可能导致肺癌。

4. Dr. Brian Appleby did not take part in that study, but treats dementia patients at Cleveland Clinic.

take part in参加…, 参与…活动
例句：Joe took an active part in the struggle.
乔积极参加斗争。

5. Scientists are hoping that at least a few of these drugs will help to slow or stop the disease in its tracks, so that a diagnosis of Alzheimer's is no longer a death sentence.

no longer不再, 已不, 不复, 再也不
例句：The city's water supply is no longer adequate for its need.
这个城市的供水已不敷需求。