时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:商业报道2006年


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Rachel Lee: Genentech has halted / test of a peanut-allergy treatment after two kids suffered serious reactions. CNN's Susan Lisovicz has details from New York.

Susan Lisovicz: According to the Wall Street Journal, the problem is not with the drug itself but with the test used to gauge 1 the severity of a patient's allergies 2. 2 children out of 150 people that trialed had severe reactions to the test. Because of the setback 3, Genentech may go straight to a larger scale trial but that would be a much longer process and it means an improved treatment for peanut-allergy reactions remains 4 years away.

Rachel Lee: A drug Xolair is already on the market but to treat allergic 5 asthma 6.

The Bush administration has told health insurers that are a part of a new Medicare drug plan that they have to give beneficiaries a thirty-day supply of any drug they were taking before. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt says the progame's still being rolled out.

Michael Leavitt: We know that each time a person goes the first time , there's a chance we'll have to work through some wrinkles but the vast majority of those who go are getting their drugs, and we don't want anyone /not to have their drugs.

Rachel Lee: Several states have declared public health emergencies and many have announced they'll pay for prescriptions 7 that should've been covered.

Microsoft has sold 600,000 Xbox 360 video game/ consoles in the U.S. since their late November debut 8 according to NPD Group. A market research company also says 2005 was a record for total video game sales, 10.5 billion. Andy Serwer with Fortune Magazine.

Andy Serwer: Video games sell more than the domestic movie box office. Movie box office's only supposed to be about 9 billion dollars last year. So, every year , it's starting to get a little bit of distance there.
The overall sales of video game/ consoles, hand-held devices , games and accessories were up 6% last year. According to NPD , console dollar sales fell 3%.

Rachel Lee: U.S. Markets were closed for the King holiday but oil prices move higher overseas on concerns about Nigeria and Iran.

With CNN Radio Marketplace I'm Rachel Lee.

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1 gauge
v.精确计量;估计;n.标准度量;计量器
  • Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗?
  • It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。
2 allergies
n.[医]过敏症;[口]厌恶,反感;(对食物、花粉、虫咬等的)过敏症( allergy的名词复数 );变态反应,变应性
  • Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms. 食物过敏会引发很多不同的症状。 来自辞典例句
  • Let us, however, examine one of the most common allergies; hayfever. 现在让我们来看看最常见的变态反应的一种--枯草热。 来自辞典例句
3 setback
n.退步,挫折,挫败
  • Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
  • She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
4 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
5 allergic
adj.过敏的,变态的
  • Alice is allergic to the fur of cats.艾丽斯对猫的皮毛过敏。
  • Many people are allergic to airborne pollutants such as pollen.许多人对空气传播的污染物过敏,比如花粉。
6 asthma
n.气喘病,哮喘病
  • I think he's having an asthma attack.我想他现在是哮喘病发作了。
  • Its presence in allergic asthma is well known.它在过敏性气喘中的存在是大家很熟悉的。
7 prescriptions
药( prescription的名词复数 ); 处方; 开处方; 计划
  • The hospital of traditional Chinese medicine installed a computer to fill prescriptions. 中医医院装上了电子计算机来抓药。
  • Her main job was filling the doctor's prescriptions. 她的主要工作就是给大夫开的药方配药。
8 debut
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
9 bucks
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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-ariums
a wig
ad hoc mode
agoroth
airplane leveling
amphoalbumose
anti-hepatitis
appetises
ascendancy
astrocytoma
atriplex
automatonlike
bell's disease/palsy
blairmontite
block spanning
bore and stroke
brake beam compression channel
branchial fistulae
captain of the head
catface
changing prices accounting
chinazoline
chipped surface
class-b insulating material
cluster (point) process
Codaesti
colony-forming unit-culture
comspec
conperseyner
cover meters
cronstadts
deka ampere balance
destinarian
drough
dry back boiler
emitter coupled transistor logic circuit
Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
expressive montage
fantasy lives
Fil-Am
firefoxes
fossae hyaloidea
francis drakes
fuzzy convex hull
god-knows-where
half-wittedness
hex socket head
Hiuchi-yama
huachuca city
hydraulic double-action jack
interplight
inverse Q filter
ionic acidity
ionic partition diagram
japan ballet association (jba)
killy
laserpitin
left-behind
ligg. intercostalia interna
long term fix area
maidas
MEQ/L
Metheramine
misfeeds
montfleury
morwennas
nearer_to
nonoccupant
nonupgradeable
not yet returned
odylic
online privacy
over the top action
paederoside
panpsychist
persute
PHIGS(abbreviation)
rayge
Rosmerta
run oneself into the ground
rusholme
rutala
serely
short-circuited circuit
sloped footing
smitty stevenss
snub nose
sound-making
sphagnous
sprucing
sternutatio
switch box support
teleradiographs
trip margin
ued
Vandling
vibrating conveyor
village life
wear one's age well
wet band
woodland pasture
Yelasy