1. Marshes were drained, and the disease was greatly reduced, or disappeared altogether. 沼泽被排干之后,该疾病大量减少,有的则一起完全消失。
2. Good technique in medicine and surgery means less disease and less deformity. 好的内外科技术能减少疾病和残废。
3. One woman's doctor told her she was not at risk for AIDS because she was married and didn't use drugs. Such misinformation plagues the medical establishment. According to the Centers for Disease Control, women will soon make up 80 percent of those di 一位妇女的医生对她说她不存在染上艾滋病的危险,因为她已经结婚,而且不吸毒。这类错误观念困扰着医疗机构。根据疾病控制中心的预测,女性将占感染艾滋病毒人口的80%。
4. Luckily her disease was discovered in an early phase. 幸运的是, 她的病在早期就被发现了。
5. Later it was found that there was a type of mosquito which acted as the carrier of this disease and passed it on to the rabbits. 后来又发现,有一种蚊子是传播这种疾病的媒介,能把此病传染给兔子。
6. Loneliness may be a sort of national disease here, and it's more embarrassing for us to admit than any other sin. 孤独或许是这里的一种民族弊病,它比起其他任何过错更加令人难以启齿。
7. It is an organic disease. 这是器官性疾病。
8. It effectively spread the disease all over the continent and drastically reduced the rabbit population. 蚊子把这种疾病扩散到整个澳洲大陆,效果甚佳,结果兔子的数目在为减少。
9. It later became apparent that rabbits were developing a degree of resistance to this disease, so that the rabbit population was unlikely to be completely exterminated. 后来,明显看出,兔子对这种疾病已产生了一定程度的免疫力,所以兔子不可能被完全消灭。
10. Ironically, Europe, which had bequeathed the rabbit as a pest to Australia, acquired this man-made disease as a pestilence. 具有讽刺意味的是,欧洲把这种兔子作为有害动物传给澳洲,而欧洲自己却染上了这种人为的瘟疫般的疾病。