(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
The battle against polio provides a good illustration of the task we face. The disease is caused by a virus that mostly affects children, and can lead to irreversible paralysis and sometimes death. The eradication effort has been a huge success, with cases dropping from 350,000 a year in 1988, to just 33 in 2018.
与小儿麻痹症的斗争很好地说明了我们面临的任务
The virus that causes polio was endemic in 125 countries in 1988, but today remains so in just two, Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, the virus is highly infectious. A single infected child could lead to hundreds of thousands of new cases a year around the world. So it must be completely stamped out, just as smallpox was eradicated in 1980. We could incentivise the push to eradication by increasing the funding, safety and resources for staff working in these incredibly challenging areas. In northern Nigeria, dozens of healthcare staff working to vaccinate and eradicate polio have been killed by gunmen thought to be members of Boko Haram. We will also need to improve the understanding of the safety of the polio vaccine to increase uptake. In Afghanistan, for example, we will need to counter the spread of anti-vaccine propaganda. In all countries, we will improve disease surveillance and data collection to better monitor the progress of eradication, and work to address people's basic needs – fresh water, food supply – in remote areas where the virus clings on.
1988年,引起小儿麻痹症的病毒在125个国家中传播,而今天只存在于阿富汗和巴基斯坦这两个国家
The effort to eliminate the polio virus has prevented 1.5 million deaths, and 18 million cases of paralysis.
消除小儿麻痹症病毒的努力防止了150万人死亡和1800万人瘫痪
In 2019, the WHO made a list of things it considered major health threats, including the problem of what it diplomatically calls "vaccine hesitancy" – which is at least as big a problem in rich countries such as the US, the UK and Japan as it is in poorer countries. The drop in the numbers of people willing to be vaccinated was a major concern even before coronavirus; it's that much greater now, in the Covid era.
2019年,世界卫生组织针对大的健康威胁列了一个清单,其中包括外交上所谓的“疫苗犹豫”问题——至少在发达国家(如美国,英国和日本)和在较贫困国家都是大的问题
词语解释
1.lead to 导致
A poor diet will ultimately lead to illness.
糟糕的饮食终将导致疾病
2.surveillance 监控
Perched on top of the fencing is a network of 900 surveillance cameras to detect intrusions.
围栏顶部是一个由900个监控摄像头组成的网络,用来探测入侵
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