英语讲义2-animal research.docVIP

Unit 6 Animal Research Is Vital to Medicine Language points Paragraph 1 seek to do sth = try/attempt to do sth; ailment: n. minor illness e.g. He’s prone to minor ailment. alleviate: vt. make pain, problems, etc., less severe This medicine can only alleviate the symptoms of your problem, but not cure it. The government is doing its best to alleviate the poverty in the mountainous areas. Their generous aid has helped to alleviate our financial problems. …research with animals is but one of several complementary approaches. …doing animal research is only one of the several supporting methods used at the same time. Complementary approaches means methods that can supply what is lacking in the other. complementary adj. making sb or sth better by stressing its good qualities or having qualities that other person or thing lacks. Irish farming and British industry are complementary. Each provides what the other needs. allot to assign as ones share, make a distribution of. Can we finish the work within the time allotted to us? owe sth to sb/sth = be indebted to as the source of. He owes his success to good luck more than to ability. Paragraph 2 debilitate vt. to make weak, to weaken (the body); debilitating is used as an adjective. e.g. a debilitating climate. debilitating diseases: diseases that make a person very weak She has been debilitated by dysentery. Huge debts are debilitating their economy. derange vt. to make insane, to throw into confusion, to cause to go out of order. John is mentally deranged. (He is insane/mad.) derive from = to have as a source or origin, to get: Thousands of English words are derived from Latin. She has derived little benefit from the medicine. originate with/from sb, originate from/in sth = to have as a cause or beginning: The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two groups. With whom did the proposal originate? Paragraphs 3 fresh batches: newly-produced cultures of microorganisms batch n.(面包等)一炉, 一批