美国有线新闻 CNN 芬太尼加剧美国毒品危机
时间：2018-12-20 作者：英语课 分类：CNN美国有线新闻2017年4月
Getting started this Monday, it's considered one of the most dangerous drugs in the world. It factors in heavily to the heroin 1 epidemic 2 we've reported on in the U.S. But it's also blamed for deaths in Europe, Africa, and Australia.
Fentanyl is a manmade painkiller 3. The United Nations recently put restrictions 4 on some of the chemicals used to make it. It says fentanyl is the strongest painkiller in existence for medical use, but then it's also highly addictive 5 and especially dangerous when abused because it's so powerful, many times stronger than even heroin itself.
Fentanyl used to be found only in pharmacies 6. Now, it's showing up in counterfeit 7 pills, much of what's being sold on the black market contains fentanyl. It's much more potent 8 than prescription 9 medications and it's killing 10 people who take it.
One challenge for U.S. officials who are trying to stop its spread, the actual machines used to make the pills. They're arriving on American shores in record numbers and they're contributing to overdoses in every corner of the country.
- Customs have made their biggest ever seizure of heroin.海关查获了有史以来最大的一批海洛因。
- Heroin has been smuggled out by sea.海洛因已从海上偷运出境。
- 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。
- I shall persuade him to take the painkiller.我将说服他把药吃下去。
- The painkiller only provides him a short respite from his pain.止痛药仅仅让他在疼痛中有短暂的疏解。
- I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
- a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
- The problem with video game is that they're addictive.电子游戏机的问题在于它们会使人上瘾。
- Cigarettes are highly addictive.香烟很容易使人上瘾。
- Still, 32 percent of the pharmacies filled the prescriptions. 但仍然有32%的药剂师配发了这两张药方。 来自互联网
- Chinese herbal pharmacies, and traditional massage therapists in the Vancouver telephone book. 中药店，和传统的按摩师在温哥华的电话簿里。 来自互联网
- It is a crime to counterfeit money.伪造货币是犯罪行为。
- The painting looked old but was a recent counterfeit.这幅画看上去年代久远，实际是最近的一幅赝品。
- The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.这药物对你的病疗效很大。
- We must account of his potent influence.我们必须考虑他的强有力的影响。
- The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
- The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。