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JOHN SNOW DEFEATS① “KING CHOLERA②”
Cholera used to be one of the most feared diseases in the world, until a British doctor,John Snow, showed how it could be overcome.This illness causes severe③ diarrhoea, dehydration, and even death.In the early
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19th century, when an outbreak④ of cholera hit Europe, millions of people died from the disease.As a young doctor, John Snow became frustrated⑤ because no one knew how to prevent or treat cholera. In time⑥, he rose⑦ to become a famous doctor,and even attended to⑧ Queen Victoria when she gave birth⑨.However, he never lost his desire to destroy cholera once and for all⑩.
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①defeat vt.击败,战胜(=beat);使失败;阻挠;挫败 n. 失败;战败
a narrow/heavy defeat惜败/惨败
②cholera/'kɒlərə/ n. 霍乱
③severe/sI'vIə(r)/ adj.极为恶劣的;十分严重的;严厉的
④outbreak n. 暴发,突然发生
⑤frustrated/frʌ'streItId/adj.懊恼的;沮丧的;失意的
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⑥in time经过一段时间之后,迟早;及时
⑦rise vi. 变得更加成功(或重要、强大等)
⑧attend to照顾,护理
⑨give birth生孩子
⑩once and for all最终地;彻底地
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[句式评析]
这是一个复合句,because引导原因状语从句,在这个从句中 how to prevent or treat cholera为“疑问词+动词不定式”结构作know的宾语。
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In general⑪, doctors in those days had two contradictory⑫ theories to explain how cholera spread.One theory was that bad air caused the disease. The other was that cholera was caused by an infection⑬ from germs⑭ in food or water.Snow subscribed to the second theory.It was correct,but he still needed proof⑮.Consequently⑯, when an outbreak of cholera hit London in 1854,Snow began to investigate.He discovered that in two particular streets the cholera outbreak was so severe that more than 500 people died in ten days. He was determined to find out why.
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