时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(九月)


英语课

By Heda Bayron
Hong Kong
21 September 2009


The head of the World Health Organization urged Asian health chiefs to continue health-care reforms despite the global economic downturn. Margaret Chan says the WHO is working to give poorer nations access vaccines 2 to fight the H1N1 flu pandemic.
 
Health chiefs from 35 countries in the Asia-Pacific region opened their annual meeting in Hong Kong, their first major gathering 3 since the H1N1 pandemic was declared in June.


High on the agenda for the delegates is how their countries can afford sufficient supplies of H1N1 vaccines to protect citizens, as the virus is expected to spread rapidly during the cooler season in the next few months.
 
The WHO is concerned about poorer nations' access to the vaccine 1 and has pledged to provide limited supply. The Philippines is expected to receive an initial 100,000 doses, in a nation of 80 million people. China is relying on local vaccine manufacturers to meet demand. Singapore says it is buying one million doses from the manufacturer Glaxo Smithkline.
 
 
Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization speaks with AFP in Hong Kong, 21 Sep 2009
World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan says early clinical trials show a single dose is sufficient to inoculate 4 people from the virus.
 
"If confirmed, this finding will literally 5 double the amount of vaccine available," she said. "Here is the big question: will this result in more equitable 6 distribution of vaccines? Let me assure you: I am pursuing this opportunity from several angles."
 
Three billion doses of the vaccine are expected to be produced annually 7. The United States, Britain, France, Australia and five other nations pledged to make 10 percent of their vaccine supply available to other countries in need.
 
H1N1 has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide since being identified earlier this year.


Chan urged the ministers to continue health care reforms despite the global economic downturn. She says the H1N1 pandemic underscores the need for greater access to public health systems, especially in poorer nations.
 
"Countries in this region are under strong pressure to reduce health budgets and extend user fees and co-payments," added Chan. "You are painfully aware of what this means: a further deterioration 8 in access, equity 9, quality and utilization 10 of health services."
 
She said governments need to focus on making their health care systems more efficient and on providing basic care to all.



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。
疫苗,痘苗( vaccine的名词复数 )
  • His team are at the forefront of scientific research into vaccines. 他的小组处于疫苗科研的最前沿。
  • The vaccines were kept cool in refrigerators. 疫苗放在冰箱中冷藏。
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
v.给...接种,给...注射疫苗
  • A corps of doctors arrived to inoculate the recruits.一队医生来给新兵打防疫针。
  • I was just meant to come out here and inoculate some wee babies.我是过来这边给小孩子们接种疫苗的。
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
adj.公平的;公正的
  • This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。
  • Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。
adv.一年一次,每年
  • Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
  • They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
n.退化;恶化;变坏
  • Mental and physical deterioration both occur naturally with age. 随着年龄的增长,心智和体力自然衰退。
  • The car's bodywork was already showing signs of deterioration. 这辆车的车身已经显示出了劣化迹象。
n.公正,公平,(无固定利息的)股票
  • They shared the work of the house with equity.他们公平地分担家务。
  • To capture his equity,Murphy must either sell or refinance.要获得资产净值,墨菲必须出售或者重新融资。
n.利用,效用
  • Computer has found an increasingly wide utilization in all fields.电子计算机已越来越广泛地在各个领域得到应用。
  • Modern forms of agricultural utilization,have completely refuted this assumption.现代农业利用形式,完全驳倒了这种想象。
学英语单词
0710
abdominal filaments
age to absorption
amplitude internal friction peak
anderson br-ldge
astrantias
axis out of line
barfly
barnwells
Bleiswijk
bracteal leaf
carbonylh(a)emoglobin
cation exclusion
chastity rings
chelid
chromorhinorrhea
citrus anthracnose
classical adjoint
column headers
comes back to
conduct a business
constrictions
continuousamplitude filter
cotaneous ureterostomy
counterplotters
dance-club
debt crisis
Diazinamide
direct drive wtgs
double pointed
electrical noise
energy absorbing roadside crash barrier
eri silk
Erysimum cheiri
euboia
exclusive patronage contract
f-inger
fit quantity
foot line
frequency doubler
grate-fired boiler
Gunn arteriovenous phenomenon
gurgitator
heaving bottom
hysterophyte
ignitron control
indpendent
interdental space
Kaes-Bechterew's layer
keep top side up
knuckle thread
lard stock
locus function
mandatory extension mechanism
manganotremolite
Marseille-en-Beauvaisis
mine disposals
minimovies
mislead
mydricamide
Māchī Kheyl
net apartment unit area
news-driven
non-acceptation
non-seismic regions
nonprocedural reference
Not to be-tipped
np completeness
Nycoff
oil pressure gage
omniscope
peasant family
periodontal principle fibers
permeamete
physically handing
pick up ears of wheat
pneumatic filling
potential conflict
poulsen arc generator
regrindability
renewal of track
rhabdoweisia laevidens broth
Rodellar
screechin'
sell us
sessility
spelling-bee
superposes
swing from
swing-out
throttled
top roller
topology of uniformity
tractor performance
under God
vacuum suspended power brake
viverrine
watered-down
Whitgiftian
year-to-date used