最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit14-Part3

[00:00.00]Critical illnesses could be
[00:02.40]diagnosed earlier and we
[00:04.26]could be confident that
[00:05.90]even the diagnosis¹ of
[00:07.54]a complex disease could be
[00:09.51]clarified and the disease could
[00:11.81]be treated before it becomes fatal.
[00:14.66]Supposing a life threatening virus
[00:17.61]could be controlled, by inference 
[00:19.57]viruses would no longer
[00:21.44]constitute a threat to our wellbeing.
[00:23.85]The concept or idea of people
[00:26.58]living to an extremely old age
[00:28.44]has been suggested. Will
[00:31.39]the consequence of that possibility
[00:33.47]be that people could also
[00:35.33]maintain their intellect as they age?
[00:37.52]Will people be able to
[00:40.14]make arrangements to have
[00:41.57]their body or its parts
[00:43.32]used after they die?
[00:45.28]The donation would help others
[00:47.47]to have some of
[00:49.12]their body parts replaced.
[00:50.65]Will people still have
[00:53.17]funerals and be buried
[00:54.59]in a grave as
[00:55.79]is the current custom
[00:57.21]or will cremation² be
[00:58.75]the common practice?
[01:00.39]If we wear corrective lenses
[01:03.23]now, perhaps our vision
[01:04.98]could be improved or restored
[01:06.84]through laser surgery. We would
[01:09.25]no longer need to wear glasses.
[01:11.00]The tragedy of a stroke
[01:15.05]and the resulting mental disability
[01:17.34]could be prevented if a monitor
[01:19.64]could analyze³ the person’s
[01:21.50]condition and recommend changes
[01:23.47]in lifestyle or treatment
[01:24.78]that could avert⁴ a stroke
[01:27.51]or a heart attack.
[01:28.83]An ambulance equipped with
[01:31.78]sophisticated portable medical diagnostic equipment
[01:34.96]could have the ability to
[01:36.71]assess multiple injuries of
[01:38.35]the victim of an accident.
[01:40.75]Recovery would be assisted
[01:43.60]by the provision of prompt treatment.
[01:46.22]The prospect⁵ of a joint⁶
[01:49.40]that swells⁷, being treated
[01:51.48]by a restraint that causes
[01:53.23]lack of motion, is not
[01:55.09]a new idea, but will a synthetic⁸
[01:57.49]joint be used to replace
[01:59.68]the jointinstead of being treated
[02:01.44]in the current familiar way?
[02:05.16]Will replacement⁹ of a hip¹⁰ joint
[02:06.90]become more commonplace?
[02:08.22]Could a doctor operate on
[02:10.84]one of our organs
[02:12.38]without having to invade our bodies?
[02:14.67]Could surgery be performed with
[02:17.29]the aid of a small camera?
[02:19.04]Will the diameter of
[02:21.45]the lens of the camera
[02:22.88]be so small that
[02:24.63]it would be measured in millimeters?
[02:26.48]The opening required to
[02:28.35]insert the camera into
[02:29.66]our body would be tiny.
[02:32.07]Could a microscope be used
[02:35.13]in the study of biology to
[02:36.55]watch the development of
[02:38.08]a specimen¹¹ of synthetic bacteria
[02:40.16]and then the specimen be used
[02:42.46]to create a treatment
[02:43.99]for the disease being studied

1 diagnosis   

n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断

参考例句：

• His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。

2 cremation   

n.火葬，火化

参考例句：

• Cremation is more common than burial in some countries. 在一些国家，火葬比土葬普遍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Garbage cremation can greatly reduce the occupancy of land. 垃圾焚烧可以大大减少占用土地。 来自互联网

3 analyze   

vt.分析，解析 (=analyse)

参考例句：

• We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
• The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。

4 avert   

v.防止，避免；转移(目光、注意力等)

参考例句：

• He managed to avert suspicion.他设法避嫌。
• I would do what I could to avert it.我会尽力去避免发生这种情况。

5 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

6 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

7 swells   

增强( swell的第三人称单数 )； 肿胀； （使）凸出； 充满（激情）

参考例句：

• The waters were heaving up in great swells. 河水正在急剧上升。
• A barrel swells in the middle. 水桶中部隆起。

8 synthetic   

adj.合成的，人工的；综合的；n.人工制品

参考例句：

• We felt the salesman's synthetic friendliness.我们感觉到那位销售员的虚情假意。
• It's a synthetic diamond.这是人造钻石。

9 replacement   

n.取代，替换，交换；替代品，代用品

参考例句：

• We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
• They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。

10 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。

11 specimen   

n.样本，标本

参考例句：

• You'll need tweezers to hold up the specimen.你要用镊子来夹这标本。
• This specimen is richly variegated in colour.这件标本上有很多颜色。