留美老师带你每日说英文 第929期:常使用医学来延长寿命
时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:留美老师带你每日说英文
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We are actually already trying to prolong life with our current medicine. We're just doing it very inefficiently 2. Trying to stop aging from happening is not less natural than transplanting a heart, treating cancer with chemotherapy, using antibiotics 3 or vaccines 4. Nothing humans do nowadays is purely 5 natural anymore, and we enjoy the highest standard of living ever as a consequence of that.
实际上,我们现在就已经在尝试用目前的医学来延长寿命,只是我们现在的作法非常没有效率罢了。试图阻止老化的发生并不会比移植心脏、用化疗来治疗癌症及使用抗生素或者疫苗来得更天然。现今人类的所作所为已经没什么是纯粹天然的了,然而我们却也因此得以享有史以来最高的生活水平。
学习重点:
1.current 现时的,当前的
current (adj.) 现时的,当前的
currently (adv.) 现在
currency (n.) 通货,货币
2.inefficiently 无效率地
inefficiently (adv.) 无效率地
inefficient 1 (adj.) 无效率的;效能差的
efficient (adj.) 效率高的
3.age 年龄
age (n.) 年龄
ages (adv.) 很长一段时间
aging (v.) 变老,老化
4.transplant 移植;移种
transplant (v.) 移植;移种
transportation (n.) 运输工具
transgender (n.) 变性人
translator (n.) 译者,译员,翻译
transaction (n.) 交易;业务;买卖
transfer (v.) 迁移;转账;转校
transparent 6 (adj.) 透明的;清澈的
5.pure 纯粹的,不搀杂的;地道的
pure (adj.) 纯粹的,不搀杂的;地道的
purely (adv.) 纯粹地;完全,全然
purify (v.) 使纯净,净化;使纯粹
adj.效率低的,无效的
- The inefficient operation cost the firm a lot of money.低效率的运作使该公司损失了许多钱。
- Their communication systems are inefficient in the extreme.他们的通讯系统效率非常差。
adv.无效率地
- The small family farm is steeped in inefficiently and struggles just to survive. 小农场主陷于无效率的境况中,只为生存下去而苦苦挣扎。 来自辞典例句
- You can't afford to run businesses inefficiently in this day and age. 在现今,经营商店无能是不行的。 来自互联网
n.(用作复数)抗生素;(用作单数)抗生物质的研究;抗生素,抗菌素( antibiotic的名词复数 )
- the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现
- The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。
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。
adv.纯粹地,完全地
- I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
- This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
adj.明显的,无疑的;透明的
- The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明,可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
- The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。
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