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
a favorable reception
Amfostat
anchor connector
atrap
attached type vibrator for concrete
Bakιr
basic assembler
basic equalization
BCY language
belted ammunitions
beta-lactamase
bivouackings
bloody stools
boy-man
cable access
Canterbury northwester
cash accounting method
cetane number booster
checchi
class's
close to you
coasting blockade
comcasts
continuously circulating ropeway
dystrophic calcification
Echo.
ectendotrophy
edge printer
eimeriosis
endocytosing
enrichens
evaza nigripennis
examinest
example ship
feddersen
frosted-glass
general locality
give indication
He plays the piano for his own enjoyment
horse hair broom
hot-well depression
incombined
Injuria non excusat injuriam.
intercorrelations
internal intercostals (or internal intercostal muscle)
james joyces
kapteyn's distribution
kleanthi
lamaist pagoda
lambeake
lateral forced-air cooling
latiumite
Laws of Manu
lunar seismometer
mainairs
mat-ter
Mesnil-St-Blaise
moment of sparking
multilayer adsorption
non-axisymmetrical configuration
nonvehicular
Opalina ranarum
output cascade
overhung-type motor
own a borough
oxyomus masumotoi
philalethists
political scientist
polystichum neolobatum
practicalness
primary shield water system
process mark
protest march
pseudodipteral
Puerto Dolores
pullitt
python regius
quadrangle
ratchet hob
record signal format
referential experience
reserve line
ring the shed
run into the sand s
sand dune area
secondary hyperthyroidism
single fiber electromyography
spent scrub stream
statistic descriminant technique
subregional center
taphonomically
temperature difference driving force
tender one's devoirs to
theatrical exhibition
thermomechanical method
time-stretched
vesico-uterine
vexatious suits
Vondrek smoothing method
Wagner-Jauregg treatment
wilcockson
zaobao