时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:美国英语听力80篇


英语课

[00:04.88]Five of the world's largest drug companies

[00:03.88]have agreed to reduce the price of drugs designed to control the disease 1 AIDS for people in developing countries.

[00:12.37]The agreement was reached after talks between United Nations health officials and drug companies earlier this month.

[00:21.83]Experts say the agreement is an important step in efforts to help millions of people in poor countries get costly 2 antiAIDS drugs.

[00:34.03]UN officials have been urging the drug industry to cut drug prices for poor countries.

[00:41.76]But they say there was limited action from them until now.

[00:47.30]The drug companies are Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gtaxo Wellcome, Boehringer- Ingelheim and Hoffman-La Roche.

[00:57.41]They will work with five international agencies 3.

[01:02.22]Several of the companies are promising 4 to sell their drugs for only a little more than the cost of manufacturing 5 them.

[01:11.62]Some reports suggest the drug prices may decrease by as much as 80% below the prices of the drugs in the United States.

[01:22.72]The drugs AZT and 3TC are two of the powerful drugs found to help slow the progress of AIDS.

[01:33.41]The treatment often requires the use of another drug called a protease inhibitor.

[01:41.09]These drugs have been used in the United States and Europe for several years.

[01:48.35]The agreement may make it possible for tens of thousands of people to get the drugs in Africa,

[01:56.16]where the disease is spreading fastest.

[01:59.27]More than 20,000,000 people in southern African nations are believed to be infected with HIV,

[02:08.15]the virus that causes AIDS.

[02:10.87]About 80% of the people in the world with the AIDS virus are in southern Africa.

[02:18.94]Even with the new prices, however, anti-AIDS drugs wilI still cost too much for most Africans.

[02:28.26]The combination 6 of three or more drugs may cost up to 200 dollars a month.

[02:35.79]In addition, experts say the plan must be combined with efforts to teach people how to use the drugs.

[02:45.22]And there must be trained medical people to supervise 7 the complex drug treatment.

[02:52.84]The disease could worsen or develop into drug-resistant viruses if the drugs are not taken correctly.

[03:01.86]UN health officials called for stronger efforts for AIDS prevention and helth care by governments in affected 8 countries.



1 disease
n.疾病,弊端
  • The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
  • He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。
2 costly
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
3 agencies
n.代理( agency的名词复数 );服务机构;(政府的)专门机构;代理(或经销)业务(或关系)
  • There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations. 联合国有许多专门机构。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The project is funded by the World Bank and other multilateral agencies. 这项计划由世界银行和其他多国机构资助。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 promising
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
5 manufacturing
n.制造业,工业adj.制造业的,制造的v.(大规模)制造( manufacture的现在分词 );捏造;加工;粗制滥造(文学作品)
  • The entire manufacturing process has been automated. 整个生产过程已自动化。
  • Manufacturing processes may be affected by the functionality of the product. 生产过程可能要受到产品设计目的的影响。
6 combination
n.组合,合并,联合;
  • He carried on the business in combination with his friends.他与朋友们合伙做生意。
  • The materials can be used singly or in combination.这些材料可以单独使用也可以混合用。
7 supervise
v.监督,管理,指导
  • We must supervise and speed up the fulfilment of assigned tasks.已经布置了的工作,应当认真督促检查。
  • Tomorrow he will supervise all the pupils taking the English examination.明天全体学生考英语,他将担任监考。
8 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
学英语单词
activized
adapter bearing
adaptive distributed minimal spanning tree algorithm
akoka
alimentary lipemia
amnioss
anilidic
anxiety-ridden
associationism
austrian airlines
back labors
Bad Schallerbach
beginner
biomethanation
blanket gas analysis
borrowest
bulgren
cat (children's apperception test)
clk.
cock-and-pie
comprime
crash out
cross-country flight
crystal clathrate
derivative rights
dirty poll
Do as you're bidden and you'll never bear blame.
down-draft manifold
dressed to the nines
El Salado, R.
elastic limit in shear
Elatostema subcuspidatum
elbe (labe)
electrical anemometer
equitative
feedthrough capacitor
fertilizer-distributor
field ampere-turn
fight to a finish
flauntily
flexibility matrix
floating thumb
fogden
fourth stage
Gornovodnoye
harping
hiked up
hitch roll
hypertypic
inamoratos
Indigofera rigioclada
industrial-instrument
intestine loop
iris scan
Kaliningradskaya Oblast'
left dorso-posterior position
loss due to anchorage temperature difference
ludent
marine centrifugal type refrigerating compressor unit
metallibure
milch goat
neisseria gonorrhoeaes
nonhierarchically
Nymphula
objective cap
office speaker
oozier
other multimode fiber optic cable
pajamas
panama, gulf of
personal allowances
podheads
Port Noarlunga
quod erat faciendum
radiator thermometer
rallentando
re-furbish
rhinoneurosis
river inversion
rotary expansion engine
sagaciate
sand pike
Saxifraga triaristulata
smooth-bore
Solana
soloman r.
spalike
spiking maul
stationary-welding machine
strongbark
swirl defect
teleprinter receiver
thiamins
Third Lateran Council
time interval analyser
ultrarunner
unrecorded income
unwashable
vapour transport
variable structure computer
waggonwright
yellow paper test