英語口譯三級精講第22講講義

Part II
艾滋病簡介

下面你將聽到一段有關艾滋病知識的講話

This is a terrible disease for which we do not yet have a cure. Nor do we have a vaccine. Meanwhile, the mortality rate for AIDS is 100 percent.

AIDS means that the immune system of a person has gone wrong. The immune system is the biological system in your body which fights off diseases. This system is composed mostly of what are commonly termed “white blood cells”.

These cells are the hunters in the body. When a virus, such as the common cold, invades the body, the white blood cells rush to the invader and kill it.

While these blood cells are busy killing an invader, the body’s immune system is said to “be under attack”. If another virus or bacteria enters the body at the same time as the white blood cells are busy fighting off an invader, the second attacker has a better chance of injuring the rest of the body’s system.

Scientists found the virus that causes AIDS and named it HIV.The HIV virus attacks the white blood cells and kills them, thus preventing these white cells from carrying on their important work of killing the other invading viruses.

We cannot tell if a person had an HIV infection just by looking at him. And here lies part of the problem about the spread of HIV infection among people. For at least the first few years after a person had contracted the HIV virus, there are no indications that the person had the HIV virus in his/her bloodstream.

However, during this time the person carrying the virus can pass it onto other people through intimate sexual relations or sharing blood with them.

Then how do we know if we have HIV or not? The answer is simple. Have an HIV blood test. This simple, painless AIDS test will take only a few minutes of your time, and if you are at all in doubt about whether you might have contracted the HIV virus, it is a life-saving endeavor.


詞匯、句型口譯

詞匯口譯

vaccine 疫苗
be composed of 由 組成
mortality rate 死亡率
immune system 免疫系統
white blood cell 白細胞
infection 傳染
contracted 感染
pass onto 傳給
life-saving endeavor 挽救生命的努力

參考譯文

Part II
這是一種可怕的疾病。對于這種病我們至今還沒有找到治療方法，也沒有預防的疫苗。與此同時，目前艾滋病的死亡率幾乎為100%。得了艾滋病意味著一個人的免疫系統出了毛病。免疫系統是人體內與疾病抗爭的生物系統。這一系統主要是由 我們通常所稱的“白血球”構成的。

這些白血球是體內的獵人。如果一種病毒，如普通感冒病毒，侵入人體內，白血球就會奮 起迎擊，殺死他們。

當白血球忙于與這些入侵者作戰時，體內的免疫系統便處于“收到攻擊”狀態。這時，如果另 一種病毒或細菌也侵入體內，這第二位入侵者會更容易使身體的其他系統受到損害。

科學家已發現了引起艾滋病的病毒，叫做HIV。這種病毒攻擊并殺死白血球，使他們無法執 行低于入侵病毒的重要使命。

僅僅憑肉眼觀察，我們并不能分辨出一個人是否感染上了HIV。這也就是HIV能在兩個人或更多 的人中得以傳播的部分原因。因為一個健康的人感染上HIV病毒以后，至少在最初的幾年里沒有任何跡象表明 他/她的血液里有HIV病毒。

然而在這一時期，這個帶有病毒的人卻能通過性行為或輸血把病毒傳染給他人。

那么，我們怎樣才能知道自己是否受到了HIV的感染呢？答案很簡單：去做一個HIV血液檢驗。 這種簡單的檢驗只需花你幾分鐘的時間。如果你對自己是否感染了HIV病毒心存疑慮，去做一個血液乃是救生 之舉。