时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(二)月


英语课

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?


"There have been tremendous declines in fertility. The key has been the prevention of unwanted births, really around the globe."


John Casterline directs the Initiative in Population Research at Ohio State. He spoke 1 at the AAAS meeting in Washington on February 20th.


"This is a really remarkable 2 public health success story that I think doesn't get featured with all the other kinds of success we've had in eliminating some diseases and so forth 3. But the story is not complete yet. There's still a considerable amount of unintended fertility, especially in some parts of Asia and Africa."


"What are the prospects 4 now looking forward that we can address that level of unwanted fertility? Well, on a hopeful side we know that there are very high levels of unmet need for family planning. So if we were to satisfy that unmet need, various analyses show we would go a long way towards achieving the reduction in birth rates that are required to achieve global population stabilization 5."


"On the less hopeful side, we've been successively underinvesting in family planning internationally. As the number, actually, of women in need has grown, the investment has declined."



1 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
2 remarkable
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
  • She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
  • These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
3 forth
adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
4 prospects
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
5 Stabilization
稳定化
  • The position of barycentre on plane directly impacts the stabilization and manipulation of plane. 飞机重心位置直接影响飞机的稳定和操纵特性。
  • With the higher olefins, stabilization of the energetic intermediates occurs more easily. 在较高的烯烃情况下,高能的中间物稳定作用更易出现。
标签: sss 托福素材
学英语单词
Afr.
alber's projection
allobiocenose
Ammotragus lervia
assets leased to others
attachment effect
automatic program segmentation
backchecking
bacterial symbiont
Bacterium dispar
blunt trailing edge
Bombycilla
carbopol
carriage type doffer
china-burma-india
colonoileoscope
compound shoreline
constant dollar income
constructor operation
contact breaker arm
conventional navigation chart
convolvuloides
crooked alignment
crystal engineering
cut up wire shot
d.j.f.
delivery point
doctrine of necessity
duckert
durn tooting
egg coal
embalming room
estuance
figured-fabric loom
finite thin sheet
fire ordeal
flat rectangular element
flexing
fluorocitric acid
freight compartment
gengler
ginns
grain moths
haplogroups
histological chemistry
Ialibu, Mt.
ideal integer
image-sketch-relation conversion
impermeable foundation
indexed sequential file
infrared phosphor
initial task index
Inspection-district
interrupter switch
investment bond
kuchta
Laclede County
lateral stabilizer
longitudinal magnetoresistance
malleatory chorea
meromorphic curve
methyl linoleate
milli-grams
Murray, Gilbert
n-perfluoroheptane
nannoliths
nephesh
open phase protection
Oposim
overspraying
oxytocin(OXT)
pay into sth
permutational isomer
Perroncito's phenomenon, Perroncito's spirals
production planning subsystem
reciprocal space
reilluminates
relaxed oscillation
remote sensing film
rid oneself of
river rats
salvage cruiser
self-check function
simagre
snow plow train
take someone through something
takle
tallitot
team-taught
Text cursor
thirteeners
train dispatchers
us regal
Vampyromorpha
varietal yield test
velociment
white backed planthopper
wolfram ore
xerostomic
zaranthan
zonality