2006年VOA标准英语-More Than a Third of U.S. Soldiers Returni

By Carol Pearson
Washington, DC
02 March 2006
 
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A new U.S. military study finds that more than a third of U.S. veterans of the war in Iraq access mental health services in the year after returning from war. 

Studies show that, for many soldiers, fighting a war results in increased risk of depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and of post-traumatic stress disorder², an anxiety disorder that is triggered by enduring a life-threatening event.
 
 
Maj. Geoffrey Grammer, M.D. 
  
When he was in Iraq helping³ U.S. troops cope with the stress of combat, U.S. Army psychiatrist⁴ Major Geoffrey Grammer was a target of mortar⁵ fire. "It was one of those times where you sit there and you say, 'I can't believe this is happening to me.  I don't have any other choice, but sort of wall this off and move on and tend to the mission at hand.'"

But the trauma¹, physical and emotional, is something soldiers eventually have to face.

The U.S. Army conducted a study of American military personnel who returned home from Iraq, Afghanistan and other deployment⁶ locations between 2003 and 2004.  

Col. Charles Hoge, M.D.  
  
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.  Dr. Charles Hoge, at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, comments on the study. "The study shows that soldiers who are returning from Iraq, that a higher percentage of those soldiers report mental health concerns and use mental health services when they get home from Iraq compared to soldiers who are returning from deployment to Afghanistan or other locations."

Dr. Hoge says that is because American troops in Iraq see frequent and intense combat and witness people being wounded or killed. "The most important finding of the study, though, is that most of the services that soldiers are receiving, mental health services, (is that) they are coming in to get care early, within the first two months, particularly, of returning home.  And this is very encouraging."

Dr. Hoge says early treatment of mental health problems is the best way to prevent the long-term consequences that have been seen in past wars.

1 trauma   

n.外伤，精神创伤

参考例句：

• Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
• The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。

2 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

3 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

4 psychiatrist   

n.精神病专家；精神病医师

参考例句：

• He went to a psychiatrist about his compulsive gambling.他去看精神科医生治疗不能自拔的赌瘾。
• The psychiatrist corrected him gently.精神病医师彬彬有礼地纠正他。

5 mortar   

n.灰浆，灰泥；迫击炮；v.把…用灰浆涂接合

参考例句：

• The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
• The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。

6 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。