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Apple CEO Jobs takes leave

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced he is taking a medical leave until the end of June.

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A major announcement from a man who can influence the market with a single syllable¹, Apple founder² Steve Jobs says he's going on medical leave. Senior correspondent, medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is in Atlanta this morning, looking into this one. So, Elizabeth, /originally he described the weight loss, the marked weight loss that you could really see is a hormone³ imbalance. Now he says that actually there could be more to it than that. What else is going on with him?

Well, he still uses that term "hormone imbalance". What he's saying now is that it's gotten bad enough that he is taking a medical leave. He said he wants people to focus on Apple's products not on his health. We ran this by several experts care. We said what could cause a hormone imbalance. And really, there are many different things. Let's take a look at three of them. Cancer can cause a hormone imbalance, as can diabetes⁴, as can liver problems, and can problems with the gastrointestinal system. What we do know is that Steve Jobs has become thinner over the years. Take a look at these two photos. One of them is from 2005 and the other is from 2008. The 2005 one is to the right, the 2008 one is to the left. And you can see in his face that he has lost weight. And let me read a little excerpt⁵ from an e-mail that he sent to Apple employees. He wrote "my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought", and he said that's why he is taking a leave of absence till the end of June, Kiran.

He also had pancreatic cancer a few years ago, right? And pancreatic cancer can be deadly, I mean, for many people. Is this a reoccurrence or complication based on that?

You know, he's not said that the pancreatic cancer has come back. He had pancreatic cancer in 2003, but there is no question that pancreatic cancer, like other cancers, can throw your hormones⁶ off balance.

And the survival rate, the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is 20 percent. That’s, that’s doesn’t look, That doesn't sound like very good odds⁷.

It is particularly low, I mean, he, it is a very, it is a tough cancer. There is no question, but he has survived. He had it in 2003, we’re now in 2009. So he has, he has done better than most people, there is no question.

All right. Elizabeth Cohen, thanks so much.

Thanks.

1 syllable   

n.音节；vt.分音节

参考例句：

• You put too much emphasis on the last syllable.你把最后一个音节读得太重。
• The stress on the last syllable is light.最后一个音节是轻音节。

2 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

3 hormone   

n.荷尔蒙，激素，内分泌

参考例句：

• Hormone implants are used as growth boosters.激素植入物被用作生长辅助剂。
• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body.这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。

4 diabetes   

n.糖尿病

参考例句：

• In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
• Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。

5 excerpt   

n.摘录，选录，节录

参考例句：

• This is an excerpt from a novel.这是一部小说的摘录。
• Can you excerpt something from the newspaper? 你能从报纸上选录些东西吗？

6 hormones   

n. 荷尔蒙，激素 名词hormone的复数形式

参考例句：

• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body. 这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
• The adrenals produce a large per cent of a man's sex hormones. 肾上腺分泌人体的大部分性激素。

7 odds   

n.让步，机率，可能性，比率；胜败优劣之别

参考例句：

• The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
• Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？