SSS 2011-01-05
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(一)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
January often gets people thinking about what they've accomplished 1 over the past 12 months. This year, it got the editors of the medical journal the Lancet to ponder how far health care has come over the past century, and where it continues to fall short.
A hundred years ago, Squire 2 Sprigge, then editor of the Lancet, penned a piece entitled The Promise of 1911. The current editors thought they'd review this clinical score card to see how far we've come.
Sadly, a lot of the problems Sprigge outlined still plague us today. The old editorial frets 3 about the "demon 4 of tuberculosis 5" and diarrheal diseases in Africa, conditions we have yet to exorcise. It also argues for legislation against "charlatans 6 and quacks," an issue that apparently 7 arose long before the advent 8 of infomercials.
The need to improve medical education, the role of the press in reporting science news, and the danger of medical tourism—they were all discussed in this century-old article that today's editors could have run as-is after modernizing 9 the font. Instead they simply conclude that, "Between 1911 and 2011 there is much for medicine to be proud of—and also to be humble 10 about."
Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin.
- Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
- Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。
- I told him the squire was the most liberal of men.我告诉他乡绅是世界上最宽宏大量的人。
- The squire was hard at work at Bristol.乡绅在布里斯托尔热衷于他的工作。
- The river frets away the rocks along its banks. 河水侵蚀了两岸的岩石。
- She frets at even the slightest delays. 稍有延误她就不满。
- The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福。
- He has been possessed by the demon of disease for years.他多年来病魔缠身。
- People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
- Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
- There are lots of phonies and charlatans in the financial newsletter business. 干金融通讯这一行的人中间不乏骗子和吹牛大王。 来自辞典例句
- But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived. 但是恶人和行诈术的人却越来越坏，他们迷惑人，也必受人迷惑。 来自互联网
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- Swallows come by groups at the advent of spring. 春天来临时燕子成群飞来。
- The advent of the Euro will redefine Europe.欧元的出现将重新定义欧洲。
- Modernizing a business to increase its profitability and competitiveness is a complicated affair. 使企业现代化，从而达到增加利润，增强竞争力的目的，是一件复杂的事情。
- The young engineer had a large share in modernizing the factory. 这位年轻工程师在工厂现代化的过程中尽了很大的“力”。