(单词翻译:单击)
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Britain’s Office for National Statistics has reported a sharp and alarming rise in the number of people dying from alcohol abuse. Binge drinking has become part of British culture and is now a serious social issue, people are literally drinking themselves to death. The figures are of near epidemic proportions. Alcohol-related fatalities among British adults doubled from 4,144 in 1991 to 8,758 in 2006. The steepest increase was the 132 percent rise in deaths among men in the 35 to 54 age bracket. They are suffering from liver failure and stomach cancers at a younger age than ever before. The figures for women in the same age group also show a dramatic rise of over 100 percent. These disturbing figures seem to be a legacy of people partying and drinking heavily in their twenties and early thirties.
Professor Ian Gilmore, a leading British doctor, said: "Liver disease is often symptom-less until it becomes very serious, and so people often have no warning that they are destroying their liver until it is almost too late.” Frank Soodeen from the group Alcohol Concern called for immediate action. "It is vital that the government finally starts investing more in alcohol treatment to help problem drinkers address these issues before the situation becomes irretrievable," he said. Britain’s public health minister Dawn Primarolo said the government was launching a $20m campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of too much alcohol, and was reviewing alcohol pricing and advertising. However, she warned: "We know we're not going to change people's attitudes to alcohol overnight, it's going to take time.”
中文翻译
英国国家统计局发布报告,酗酒死亡人数呈上升趋势
英国知名医生伊恩·吉尔摩教授认为:“通常情况下,肝病只有在情况危急时才会显现,所以人们经常不会发现自己正在损害肝脏,等到发现时已为时已晚
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重点讲解
1.seem to 似乎
例句:Some people seem to be always lucky.
有些人似乎从来都是幸运的
。2.liver failure 肝功能衰竭
例句:He suffered acute liver failure after a rare reaction to a drug.
在罕见的药物反应之后,他的肝功能严重衰竭
。3.suffer from 遭受
例句:How long have you been suffering from a headache?
你头痛有多久了?
4.social issue 社会问题
例句:I believe bullying is the single most important social issue of today.
我相信,欺负行为是当今一个最为重要的单一社会问题
。