时间:2019-01-09 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2009年(四)月


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This is the VOA Special English Health Report.


Male circumcision is the cutting off of a small amount of skin from the tip of the penis. In many parts of the world it is done when a baby is a few days old. However, in other parts of the world it is unacceptable.


Studies have shown that male circumcision can reduce a man's risk of getting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Now, a new study shows that it can also reduce a man's risk of getting human papillomavirus, or HPV. The research also shows circumcision reduces the risk for another common sexually transmitted infection, genital herpes. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
 
A man waits for a circumcision in Mbabane, Swaziland


The study was led by scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and Makerere University in Uganda. It involved about three thousand four hundred uncircumcised Ugandan men between the ages of fifteen and forty-nine. None had HIV, genital herpes or HPV at the start of the study. The men were split into two groups. One group got immediate 2 circumcisions. The others had it done two years later.


All the men were tested for sexually passed diseases four times in the next two years. The researchers found that those who had been circumcised were twenty-eight percent less likely to get genital herpes than uncircumcised men. They were thirty-three percent less likely to get HPV.


Ronald Gray of Johns Hopkins was a lead investigator 3. He says the team will now study whether female partners of the men in the study experienced any reduction of risk of the diseases. This is especially important in the case of human papillomavirus.


HPV causes cervical cancer. That disease kills almost three hundred thousand women around the world every year. It is the number one cancer killer 4 of women in poor countries.


There is a vaccine 5 against the human papillomavirus. American medical officials have advised that the treatment, called Gardasil, be given to girls around age eleven. But, like circumcision, it is an issue of public debate. Some American parents argue that the vaccine will make their girls more likely to have sex early. Others question the vaccine's safety and effectiveness.


Now, Gardasil's maker 1, Merck, has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve the drug for boys beginning at age nine. The complete treatment costs several hundred dollars.


And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver 6. I'm Bob Doughty 7.



n.制造者,制造商
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
n.研究者,调查者,审查者
  • He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。
  • The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
n.牛痘苗,疫苗;adj.牛痘的,疫苗的
  • The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
  • She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。
n.织布工;编织者
  • She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快,而且布的质量很好。
  • The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。
adj.勇猛的,坚强的
  • Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.绝大多数成功人士都有共同的特质:脾气倔强,性格刚强。
  • The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.坚强的老人用巨大毅力与疾病作斗争。
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A-axis
abayoni
achronychous
all-or-nothing check
allowed direction
Almelund
American red squirrel
announcement effect
annumerated
at this present writing
attack politics
belted down
benevolent dictators
bgm
binderless birquetting
blade-section profile
boot topping (bt)
boxer
butt crack
cargo on deck
carrier (wave) telegraphy
christian dance
constant torque asynchronous motor
croton seed
debit voucher
delia
doublet pulse
draught-proofings
edwin
elastic weight
felin
fiftie
file manipulation architecture
give the push
gonadorelin 6-D-trp acetate
graded index lens
hanazumo
headreach
heavy duty roughing tool
helicopting
idiopathic myocarditis
isoosmotic pressure
j-shapeds
kept
kinskis
Kpedze
kucinich
low-producing
luminor
m-chlorobenzylamine
magnetisations
maholm
mountain unit
movable transcendental singularity
multi plate
naderi
negative-sum
Nekenstatut
nucleus of raphe
Oum Hadjer, Ouadi
pancreatrophic
passenger car tyres
paulopost
payroll per capita
peak-flow
philanthropism
pious fiction
play it low on
Polylite
Psittacidae
reaction, chain
receive send keyboard set
remote signalling plant
richa
sackungs
self noise
sole tile
spread velocity
staffable
steam-mixer
substantia gelatinosa of Rolando
Sulat, Gili
synchronization monitor
systematic description
tautogs
tele-politics
tilia tuan szyszyl
to ... credit
Topolobampo
tractus nervosi commissurales
tricholoma acerbum
Turner Corner
uniform and/or modulation doping
untruths
vaccinees
visual-light cloud picture
wall thickness after reinforcement
western wood pewees
witches' broom
without perjudice
wormseed oil
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