时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2003(下)-环境与健康


英语课


By Nancy Steinbach


Broadcast: November 12, 2003


This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report.
Researchers who found a possible link between aspirin 1 and the risk of cancer of the 1)pancreas say more studies are needed to confirm the finding. The pancreas is an organ near the stomach that is involved in the 2)digestion 2 of food.
Study leader Eva Schernhammer teaches at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Doctor Schernhammer says the finding does not mean that women should no longer use 3)aspirin. She says the drug still has important effects. Many people take it to help prevent colorectal cancer, heart attack and stroke.
The finding came from more than eighty-eight-thousand women in a health study of nurses. The study lasted eighteen years. During this time, one-hundred-sixty-one of the nurses developed pancreatic cancer.
Here is what the study found: Women who took fourteen or more aspirin a week had an eighty-six percent greater chance of pancreatic cancer than those who took none. Women who took between six and thirteen pills a week had a forty-one percent higher risk. And women who took one to three aspirin a week had an eleven percent greater chance of pancreatic cancer.
The World Health Organization says seventeen-million people a year die of heart disease. By 4)comparison, two-hundred-sixteen-thousand people develop pancreatic cancer. However, it is one of the most deadly of all cancers. Most patients die within a year.
The researchers reported their findings at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
A separate study found a possible danger for people with heart disease who stop taking aspirin. Researchers from University Hospital Pasteur in Paris reported about that study at a meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians.
They studied people who entered the hospital after a heart attack or other serious heart problem. All had taken aspirin every day for at least three months to help control heart disease. Aspirin thins the blood and can reduce the chance of a 5)blockage 3 in the flow to the heart.
The French researchers studied more than one-thousand-two-hundred patients. They found that fifty-one of them had a serious heart problem less than one week after they stopped the aspirin.
This VOA Special English Health Report was written by Nancy Steinbach. This is Phoebe Zimmermann.


注释:
1) pancreas [5pAnkriEs] n.胰腺
2) digestion [di5dVestFEn] n.消化力
3) aspirin [5AspErin] n.阿斯匹林(解热镇痛药)
4) comparison [kEm5pArisn] n.比较, 对照
5) blockage [5blCkidV] n. 阻塞,堵塞



1 aspirin
n.阿司匹林
  • The aspirin seems to quiet the headache.阿司匹林似乎使头痛减轻了。
  • She went into a chemist's and bought some aspirin.她进了一家药店,买了些阿司匹林。
2 digestion
n.消化,吸收
  • This kind of tea acts as an aid to digestion.这种茶可助消化。
  • This food is easy of digestion.这食物容易消化。
3 blockage
n.障碍物;封锁
  • The logical treatment is to remove this blockage.合理的治疗方法就是清除堵塞物。
  • If the blockage worked,they could retreat with dignity.如果封锁发生作用,他们可以体面地撤退。
学英语单词
2'-phosphodiesterase
a cutie pie
abnormal focal length
aggregation of individual preferences
air inlet valve of dredger's deliving pipeline
air-guns
alcala de la selva
archeri
Ariquemes
assinie
Auberger blood group system
Banbayan Pt.
bar rack
be food for worms
between-class correlation
Brachypodium sylvaticum
calex
capon test
carbon steel
catch copy
Central I.
chantha
chromophobic
couchful
day disk
deformational stress
detonation point
deutscheland
drive out of
duramatral
echymose
Elephanta Island
expected yield
fadged
fermentation inhibitor
floating point unit
folded and grooved seam
go hard or go home
half titles
harker lines
hideosities
Higher bid
imperialls
insinuate
iris detachment
Jeans viscosity equation
lactocidin
lbgs
lead metasilicate
left atrium failure
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
lock cylinder
loi-cadre
M.H.R.
macromitrium ferriei
marie dolores eliza rosanna gilberts
membranogenesis
mesh side cutter
Minskian
nodes
nonitemized
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observantially
order parameter
pachometers
papular pruritic gloves and socks syndrome
paroxysmal coliky pain
patent licence-agreement
Phulsāri
pioneering work
plain ashlar
plant ledger card
pork fillet
preconising
PSD (power spectral density)
ragtop
relish
residual valency
Santa Maria, I.
satish
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search and seizure
Seawater Quality Standards
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side-by-side
Simonart band
Sleepwell
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storage cathode ray tube
sweetkin
tabby-cats
teamkillers
tetracontagons
tip clearance area
Tossåsen
uppermost part
us sea
water ejection tube
you're a star