2024考研英语：《经济学人》中英读译Day71

英语阅读能力依靠什么？必然是词汇的积累，但，仅仅是词汇的积累是不够了，更应该了解英语句式，不同句型所表达意义。如何培养自己的阅读语感呢？那么就跟着聚创考研网小编每天学一点英语，一起为考研筑起坚实的地基。阅读是需要积累的，就像我们需要经常和人沟通才会促进我们的表达能力一样~小伙伴跟着小编一起，每天坚持打卡，培养英语阅读能力及语感，了解文章一些经典词汇的用法。

经济学人:改变肺癌轨迹(上)

Any cancer diagnosis is devastating, but patients with lung cancer face an especially daunting journey.Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the world.It’s difficult to detect in its early stages and hard to treat once it's finally discovered.But there’s hope on the horizon.Dr. Avrum Spira is leading a multidisciplinary team that’s taking a convergent approach to target the root cause of the disease and detect lung cancer before it develops to help improve.It’s all part of his efforts as Global Head of the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson.Scientific American Custom Media recently sat down with Dr. Spira to learn more about his work and the future of lung cancer treatment.Avi Spira learned about the devastating effects of lung cancer early in his career.I was a medical resident at that time, and all of a sudden, I got a call one weekend.It was about his aunt.

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确诊任何癌症都是毁灭性的，但肺癌患者会面临一段特别令人生畏的旅程。肺癌是世界上癌症死亡的主要原因。肺癌在早期阶段很难发现，一旦发现肺癌也很难治疗了。不过有望治好癌症。阿维鲁姆·斯皮拉博士正在领导一个多学科团队，该团队正在采取一种融合的方法来找出这种疾病的根本原因，并在进展成肺癌之前检测出该疾病，以帮助改善患者的预后。这是他作为强生肺癌倡议全球负责人所做的努力的一部分。《科学美国人定制媒体》最近采访了斯皮拉博士，了解他的工作以及肺癌治疗的未来。阿维·斯皮拉在他职业生涯的早期就知道了肺癌的破坏性影响。当时我是一名住院医生，突然，一个周末我接到了一个电话。这是关于他阿姨的故事。

She was full of life.Always, since I've known her from a young age.And she had lived a very healthy life, never smoked, exercised, ate well.But, she had fluid around her lungs.And it turned out within a few days, they diagnosed her as having stage four lung cancer.And her prognosis was, she would only live a few months.While she fought valiantly against the disease, she died within a year of her diagnosis.Watching her take her last breath was incredibly traumatic.But also, I realized at that point in my career that I wanted to do something to change the trajectory of this disease.Avi’s aunt was a case of a non-smoker getting lung cancer.Lung cancer is the most lethal cancer because it's almost always diagnosed at an advanced stage.It’s easy to not know you have lung cancer, because of the way it develops.It starts insidiously as a little, small group of cells deep within your lung tissue, doesn't impair your breathing, you don't have chest pain, you're not coughing up blood, and it grows silently over months, and potentially years.

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她充满了活力。一直都是，因为我很小的时候就认识她了。她过着非常健康的生活，从不吸烟，锻炼，吃得很好。但是，她的肺部周围有积液。结果在几天内，他们诊断她患有肺癌，进展到了四期。她的预后是只能活几个月。她勇敢地与疾病作斗争，但她在确诊后一年去世了。看着她咽下最后一口气让我非常痛苦。但同时，在我职业生涯的那个时刻，我意识到我想做点什么来改变这种疾病的发展轨迹。阿维的阿姨是一名不吸烟的肺癌患者。肺癌是最致命的癌症，因为这种疾病几乎总是到晚期才能被诊断出来。由于肺癌的进展方式，人们不容易知道自己患有肺癌。这种疾病始于肺组织深处的一小群细胞，不会损害呼吸，不会胸痛，不会咳嗽出血，它会悄悄地生长数月，甚至数年。

And by the time you start feeling it, it's too late.As Avi moved forward with his career he did so with a focus on the early detection of lung cancer.As an academic, I spent 15 years making some amazing discoveries in the lung cancer space about diagnosing lung cancer earlier, but it was so hard to translate those discoveries into patient benefit, very hard to do as an academic.Avi wasn’t satisfied with those discoveries.He wanted to see them used in the real world to help patients — right away.I became a serial entrepreneur.And I started three companies, one of which took one of my early detection tests for lung cancer, and successfully commercialized it.It took us over a decade to go from the discovery in 2007 to seeing it actually in the clinic helping patients.That’s why, while he was working as a consultant for Johnson & Johnson, he saw an incredible opportunity.The company was looking for a way to use the full breadth and depth of its resources to transform the way we prevent, detect, and treat a specific disease.

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当开始感觉到肺癌的时候，已经太晚了。随着阿维事业的发展，他专注于肺癌的早期检测。作为一名学者，我花了15年时间在肺癌领域找出了一些关于早期诊断肺癌的惊人发现，但使这些发现受益于患者是非常困难的，作为一个学者很难做到。阿维对这些发现并不满意。他希望看到这些发现能在现实世界中被用来立刻帮助病人。我成了一名创业者。我开了三家公司，其中一家采用了我的一项肺癌早期检测测试，并成功地将其商业化。我们花了十多年的时间才把2007年的发现运用到诊所里帮助病人。这就是为什么当他在强生公司担任顾问时，他看到了一个令人难以置信的机会。该公司正在寻找一种方法，以充分利用其资源的广度和深度，改变我们预防、检测和治疗特定疾病的方式。