PBS高端访谈:艾滋病专家:缓解HIV是可行的

 　　MEGAN THOMPSON: In the early 1980s, French scientist Fran?oise BarrE-Sinoussi, one of only a few women at the prestigious¹ Pasteur Institute in Paris, began seeing patients infected with a mysterious virus.

　　FRAN?OISE BARRE-SINOUSSI: The feeling that we had is really to rush. It was a lot of pressure you know because of course we had already some evidence that this virus was transmitted by blood, by sexual roots and from mother to child.

　　MEGAN THOMPSON: In 1983, BarrE-Sinoussi and her mentor² discovered HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. She shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 and dedicated³ her career to research and activism, traveling the world to fight the spread of the disease.

　　Today, due to new treatments and drugs, HIV is no longer an automatic death sentence for the estimated 37 million people around the world living with the virus.

　　BarrE-Sinoussi says even though a cure may never be found, she's confident that at some point, patients may no longer need indefinite treatment.

　　FRAN?OISE BARRE-SINOUSSI: I am personally convinced that remission is feasible, is achievable. When? I don't know.

　　MEGAN THOMPSON: BarrE-Sinoussi has closed her lab, but she plans to continue her advocacy work as long as she can.

　　She says her only regret is not finding an HIV vaccine⁴.

　　FRAN?OISE BARRE-SINOUSSI: Of course, I would have loved, you know, to stop and to see that we have a vaccine against HIV and that we have another treatment at least that induces remission, but that's life.

　　I mean, I encourage a new generation of scientists today to continue.

1 prestigious   

adj.有威望的，有声望的，受尊敬的

参考例句：

• The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
• You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。

2 mentor   

n.指导者，良师益友；v.指导

参考例句：

• He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
• He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。

3 dedicated   

adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的

参考例句：

• He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
• His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

4 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。