最新药学英语课文翻译-课后翻译节选-中英双语对照-第四版.docx

可编辑 可编辑 本篇包括人卫第四版 Unit 3B ，Unit4A ，5A，8A，10A，12AB， 13A 等七篇课文 Unit 3 Text B The Other Side of Antibiotics 抗生素的另一面 Antibiotics have eliminated or controlled so many infectious diseases that virtually everyone has benefited from their use at one time or another. Even without such personal experience, however, one would have to be isolated indeed to be unaware of the virtues, real and speculative, of these “ miracle ”drugs 1. The American press, radio, and television have done a good job of reporting the truly remarkable story of successes in the chemical war on germs. What s more, any shortcomings on their part have been more than made up for by the aggressive public relations activity of the pharmaceutical companies which manufacture and sell antibiotics. 抗生素可以消除或控制很多种感染疾病，以致几乎每人生病时都习惯于使用它而受益， 但是如果一个人没有这样的亲身经历， 他必定是离群索居才会不知道这些 “特效药物”或真 实或推测的优点。美国的出版物、电台或电视台用大量的篇幅报道了有关对细菌的化学战中 获得的这些显著功绩。而它的缺点却被生产和销售抗生素的制药公司通过公关活动掩藏了。 In comparison, the inadequacies and potential dangers of these remarkable drugs are much less widely known. And the lack of such knowledge can be bad, especially if it leads patients to pressure their doctors into prescribing antibiotics when such medication isn t really needed, or leads them to switch doctors until they find one who is, so to speak, antibiotics-minded 2. 相比而言， 使用这些药物的危险性并不广为人知。 对这种知识的缺乏将更糟糕， 特别是 当患者要求医生开处方用抗生素而事实并不需要， 或患者频繁地更换医生直至找到一个同意 开抗生素处方的医生。 Because the good side of the antibiotics story is so very well-known, there seems more point here to a review of some of the immediate and long-range problems that can come from today s casual use of these drugs. It should be made clear in advance that calamities from the use of antibiotics are rare in relation to the enormous amounts of the drugs administered. But the potential hazards, so little touched on generally, do need a clear statement. 因为抗生素的好的一面已广为人知， 今天抗生素的滥用导致短期或长期问题。 我们预先 应该知道与抗生素的巨大的使用量相比 ,它产生危害的例子是少见的。 但是，尽管十分少见， 需要对这种潜在的危险作一个清楚的说明。 The antibiotics are not, strictly speaking, ex