时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2014年(七月)


英语课

 


AIDS Conference Wraps Up with Focus on Research, Progress 艾滋病大会聚焦研究与成果


MELBOURNE —


In 20 years, the International AIDS Conference has ballooned from a gathering 1 of some 2,000 scientists at the inaugural 2 1985 meeting in Atlanta, to this year’s multi-disciplinary gathering of 12,000 scientists, activists 3 and people living with the virus. The latest conference in Melbourne, Australia covered a seemingly endless array of topics, from the hard science to social issues.


At the 2014 AIDS conference, condoms are as common as toothbrushes, sex and safety are brought up in the same breath, and AIDS is no longer a death sentence, but a plausible 4 theme for a dance party.


But this conference was not all about glitz and glam.


Improved testing, treatment


At this year’s event in Melbourne, scientists and researchers also hit hard against the disease with powerful research.


Medical advances include improvements in testing and treatment -- and, this year, a pill that may help prevent HIV transmission.


Dr. James Rooney of Gilead Sciences explains how a prevention protocol 5, called “PrEP,” works.


“So PrEP is actually a new strategy for preventing HIV infection," he said. "It’s a strategy that uses HIV drugs that are oftentimes used for treatment, but in this case, the drugs are actually given to individuals who are at high risk for becoming infected.”


But the event was not without its own tragedy.


Just days before the conference began, six top figures in the fight against AIDS were killed when their plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine. The tragedy prompted outpourings of grief, which began with a minute of silence, led by International AIDS Society President Francoise Barre-Sinoussi.


“I would love to be telling you that we were opening this conference in happier times," she said. "The extent of the loss of our colleagues and friends is still hard for me to express. We grieve alongside all of those throughout the world who have lost family and friends in this senseless tragedy."


Celebrating progress


The week-long event also brought in some big names.


“We are here on the 20th anniversary of the conference to celebrate so much of the progress that has been made because the world made the right decision to fight AIDS and now, to create a generation free of it. We dare not walk away. And all of us should lead the way,” former U.S. president Bill Clinton said.


In a way, this tragic 6 epidemic 7, which has killed an estimated 39 million people since the early 1980s, has blown open previously 8 taboo 9 subjects. AIDS has forced the world to talk about long-simmering issues like sex, gender 10 issues, inequality, violence and education.


It’s a huge price to pay, but one that AIDS activists say has paved the path for a more understanding and a more interesting and colorful world.



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。
adj.就职的;n.就职典礼
  • We listened to the President's inaugural speech on the radio yesterday.昨天我们通过无线电听了总统的就职演说。
  • Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.皮尔逊教授在新的阶梯讲堂发表了启用演说。
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.似真实的,似乎有理的,似乎可信的
  • His story sounded plausible.他说的那番话似乎是真实的。
  • Her story sounded perfectly plausible.她的说辞听起来言之有理。
n.议定书,草约,会谈记录,外交礼节
  • We must observe the correct protocol.我们必须遵守应有的礼仪。
  • The statesmen signed a protocol.那些政治家签了议定书。
adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
  • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
  • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
n.禁忌,禁止接近,禁止使用;adj.禁忌的;v.禁忌,禁制,禁止
  • The rude words are taboo in ordinary conversation.这些粗野的字眼在日常谈话中是禁忌的。
  • Is there a taboo against sex before marriage in your society?在你们的社会里,婚前的性行为犯禁吗?
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
学英语单词
abeqithymia
Abies firma
access system
alternate host parasites
analysis of agricultural data
azo dyeing
backup-archive client
barnette
Burgaly
center-work
chickenarian
churn of wave
cleaner strainer
cleanhandedly
come pat to
coolant-gas-carrying auxiliary system
copy order
crackerbreads
crossapol b.
cut and fill balance
Daddy Warbucks
Dakshina Kannada
Dettingen an der Erms
Didelphidae
dual liquid applicator
dyestuffs
eleutherol
epineural canal
ERL-080
evictors
fasting pen
Fery cell
flocculent suspension
flow audit procedure
four hand
frances elizabeth caroline willards
friendish
graphic user world
greenthumb
Greetland
Grodzisk
hemachates
hermann ludwig ferdinand von helmholtzs
impanating
import and export merchant
inductance type displacement transducer
lamp socket antenna
Leptinotarsa
line of trend
livid brown
lounsbery
Mantoux reversion
maximum cruising rating
mean engine operating time between failures
mokopuna
monthly settlement report
ninety-day wonders
non-basic activity
noncorrect
None so deaf as those who won't hear.
odo(u)r specialist cell
Ooststellingwerf
optical fiber phase conductor
otto robert frisches
palm-presser
paraffin oil
pig liver
pissing contest
plumeries
polychloroprene foam
progressive rotation
quinochrome
R.F.T. typing
recent amnesia
reinforcing girder
retinal epilepsy
S tectonite
Saxifraga tigrina
selling process
serial analysis
shifting executory interest
sock something away
socked
sogier
Sophora brachygyna
squirrel cage mill
stangl
statistical invariance
steel tube armour
superstimuli
survey boat
three-shear ram
time-varying gradient
traquair
tricyclohexyltin hydroxide
Turkifies
vertigo
vesperae
Wagner's operation
waterproofing plaster coat
WVV