【英音模仿秀】登山无论体格，造福重症患者

模仿文本：How can understanding what it takes to climb Mount Everest help to save lives on intensive care wards²? Hugh Montgomery is a professor of intensive care medicine at University College Hospital in London. His breakthrough discovery was finding the first gene³ for fitness. And he studies the effects of fitness or lack of it under duress⁴, met after high altitude up a mountain or in a hospital ward¹, both situations where the body is being put under great pressure to cope. 

译文：明白攀登珠峰所需的条件，这对在重症监护病房挽救生命有何帮助？休·蒙哥马利是伦敦大学学院医院重症护理医疗方面的教授。他发现了首个健康基因，这项发现具有突破性意义。他研究在压力环境下健康或缺乏健康造成的影响，不论是在高山之巅还是在医院病房——两种环境下人体都要对抗巨大的压力。 

 

 

1 ward   

n.守卫，监护，病房，行政区，由监护人或法院保护的人（尤指儿童）；vt.守护，躲开

参考例句：

• The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
• During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时，我要点根火把，抵挡蚊虫。

2 wards   

区( ward的名词复数 )； 病房； 受监护的未成年者； 被人照顾或控制的状态

参考例句：

• This hospital has 20 medical [surgical] wards. 这所医院有 20 个内科[外科]病房。
• It was a big constituency divided into three wards. 这是一个大选区，下设三个分区。

3 gene   

n.遗传因子，基因

参考例句：

• A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
• The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。

4 duress   

n.胁迫

参考例句：

• He claimed that he signed the confession under duress.他说他是被迫在认罪书上签字的。
• These unequal treaties were made under duress.这些不平等条约是在强迫下签订的。