2017年英语专八听力原文

sectionB interview

　　M: Good evening, everybody. Despite new promise of aid, international leaders provided disheartening assessments of the current battle against Ebola. The head of the World Bank said the international community—community had "failed miserably" in its initial response. The director of the Center for disease control said the situation reminded him of the early days of the AIDS epidemic. We get our own assessment from one of the few nongovernmental groups treating patients in West Africa. International Medical Corps has built a treatment clinic in Liberia and is constructing other facilities in both Liberia and Sierra Leone. Its president and CEO, Mary Johnson, joins me now. Thank you for joining us.

　　男：虽然一直有国家做出援助承诺，许多国际领导者还是对当前抗击埃博拉的努力做出负面评价。世界银行行长说，国际社会在最初反应方面“惨败”。疾病控制中心的主任说，这种情况让他想起了抗击艾滋病的最初阶段。有几个非政府组织在西非治疗病人，我们从它们那里得到了评估。国际医疗队在利比里亚建立了一个治疗诊所，目前正在利比里亚和塞拉利昂建设其他机构。我身旁这位是国际医疗队总裁兼首席执行官玛丽·约翰逊。谢谢你参加我们的节目。

　　W: Thank you, Jack.

　　女：谢谢你,杰克。

　　M: How many beds, how many facilities, how many people would you say that you're engaged in treating now?

　　男：当前的治疗中，你们投入了多少床位、机构以及医护人员?

　　W: OK, So, in Liberia, International Medical Corps opened up a 70-bed hospital—or actually we call it a treatment unit. We opened that up in mid-September. We are scaling up and we will be opening up another treatment unit in Sierra Leone. In Liberia, we have about 200 people working in this treatment unit, trying to contain it, as well as treating people who have Ebola, With the hopes that they will recover, and they are recovering when they receive treatment.

　　女：好吧，国际医疗队在利比里亚开了一家70个床位的医院，实际上我们称之为诊疗中心。是在9月中旬开的。我们正在扩大规模，将在塞拉利昂再开一家诊疗中心。在利比里亚，我们有大约200人在这个诊疗中心工作，试图控制埃博拉病毒，同时为病人提供治疗，希望他们能康复，其实开始治疗后他们就在康复了。

　　M: Do you have any sense that the progress of this disease is being—is slowing?

　　男：你觉得这种疾病的发展速度有没有放缓?

　　W: Well, let me say that it's clear that efforts, like ours' and other organization's, are working. When there are treatment efforts, when there are health care workers to treat patients as they come in—I mean, our first patients that arrived to our treatment unit, they died at the doorstep. But now we see that patients are recovering, and they are returning back to their families. So any efforts around treatment and containment are working. The problem and the challenge is that there are just not enough operational efforts on the ground. That's the challenge.

　　女：嗯，让我说的话，很明显，我们这些组织的努力初见成效。我们努力提供医疗服务，病人来就诊时，能马上得到医护人员的救治。我们的第一批病人刚刚来到我们的诊疗中心，就不幸去世了。但现在我们可以看到病人正在康复，陆续出院。因此，治疗和遏制方面的努力都在发挥作用。问题和挑战在于，当地没有足够的运转力量。这是一个挑战。

　　M: Is that because a lack of international action or nongovernmental action, or is it because the infrastructure in these communities is so difficult that even if you sent them 10 pop-up hospitals, they couldn't build them?

　　男：是因为国际行动或非政府行动不足，还是因为这些社区的基础设施非常落后，即使你给他们送去10家临时医院，他们也无法经营?

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