新世纪医学英语教程(社会医学)第二第三单元课文翻译.pdfVIP

学习必备 欢迎下载 Unit2 A America is experiencing a major epidemic 现今美国正在经历一场重要的流行病。 today. Unlike epidemicsof the past, it is not a 不同于过去的流行病， 它不是由细菌或病毒 disease transmitted by bacteria or viruses. 传染的疾病。 This epidemicis an increase in diseases and 这个流行病的增加是与压力有关的疾病和 problems related to stress, and it touches all of 问题引起的，它涉及我们生活的方方面面。 our lives. In 1900 the average life expectancy in this 1900 年，这个国家的平均预期寿命为 47 岁， country was 47, and the major killer diseases 其主要致命疾病包括肺结核肺炎， 流行性感 included tuberculosis pneumonia,influenza, 冒，霍乱，伤寒，天花 -这些传染性疾病袭 cholera, typhoid, and smallpox — — 击了所有年龄层的人， 不管他们的生活方式 infectious diseases which struck people of all 怎样。 ages, regardless of their lifestyle. Today, on the other hand, life expectancy has been extended to 74, thanks in large part 如今，在另一方面，预期寿命已延长至 74 to the conquest of the acute infectious disease 岁，这在很大程度上是由于对于急性传染病 through improved sanitation, better 的征服， 通过改善卫生条件， 更好地分配和 distribution and storage of foods, and the 储存食物，以及引进免疫方法和抗生素。 introduction of immunization and antibiotics. Peopletoday are dying of different diseases than they did at the turn of the 20th century, 当今人们死于的疾病与 20 世纪初不同，现 and the principal causes of death today are 在死亡的主要原因是心脏病，中风，癌症， heart disease, stroke, cancer, cirrhosis of the 肝硬化，糖尿病等。 liver, and diabetes. These noninfectious, chronic diseases 这些非传染性， 慢性疾病已被证明是与我们 have been shown to be directly related to the 的生活方式有直接联系的， 使其发展的主要 way we live, and one of the dominant factors 因素之一是压力——这一现代生活元素， 正 in their development is stress—— an element 对我们的身体和精神健康造成越来越严重 of modern life which is taking an increa