equilibrium involving medical insurances, medical innovations, equilibrium/ patient concerns, and physician-directed decision making,an n.平衡 equilibrium that will deliver what is medically necessary, not what is merely profitable. I am hopeful, but not certain, that profitable what is in the best interest of0 the patient will begin to prevai有利可图的 /vi.获胜 over4 what is in the best interest of the health care company占上风 investors. This attitude must support medical research as well as medical care. The issues of managed care, patient rights, I n.职 physician professionalism, med ical research, and health care in业道德 America need to be lifted from the bottom line to our highest aspiration n.志向,理想 aspirations Source: SCIENCE, Vol. 281, 25 September 1998 notes 1. C. Everett Koop Mclnerny Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School, and Senior School at the C. everett Koop Institute, also at Dartmouth. From 1981 to 1989 he served as the United States Surgeon General and continues to educate the public about health issues through his writings. Dr. Koop has authored some 230 articles and books, and holds 37 honorary doctorates 2. to have early memories of动词短语,用于回忆往事的习惯表达形式,意为: 还记得当时过去……,eg. I still have early memories of teasing my grand pa 3. by cutting pictures out of magazines using both my right and left hands ain use用于分词时,与其它动词(如:cut)不一样,无需用介词by引导,整个 分词短语往往放置在句后,并且也无需用逗号将其分开 4. chemistry set化学实验装置 5. conducting what may have been some rather sophisticated experiments for a 12year-old句法结构 may have+过去分词用于对过去发生的事情所做出 的一种判断或猜测,意为:做了一些对一个十二岁孩子来说可能是较为复杂 的实验 6. stray cats流浪猫(比较: homeless people流浪街头/无家可归的人) 7. Brooklyn地名,美国纽约市由五个区 borough组成,布鲁克林区是其中的 个 8. to lose a patient动词lose在临床上表示“未能成功救活病人” 9. at age86简略表达,= at the f86 10. a high school senior中学第四年或最后一年学生 11. conclud ing paragraph文章的结尾段,相对文章的开头第一段 opening 12. nothing would give me a bigger thrill and would please me more than to operate on a human being这是由名词或动词否定形式、助动词 would或 could和 比较级形式构成一种特定的肯定语法结构,eg. Your timing could not be better. I couldn i agree with you mon 13. a handful of =a small number of, a group of 14. corrected surgically在医学上译为:通过外科手术矫正equilibrium involving medical insurances, medical innovations, patient concerns, and physician-directed decision making, an equilibrium that will deliver what is medically necessary, not what is merely profitable. I am hopeful, but not certain, that what is in the best interest of40 the patient will begin to prevail over41 what is in the best interest of the health care company investors. This attitude must support medical research as well as medical care. The issues of managed care, patient rights, physician professionalism, medical research, and health care in America need to be lifted from the bottom line to our highest aspirations. equilibrium / / n. 平衡 profitable / / a. 有利可图的 prevail / / vi. 获胜， 占上风 professionalism / / n. 职 业道德 aspiration / / n. 志向，理想 Source: SCIENCE, Vol. 281, 25 September 1998 Notes: 1. C. Everett Koop Mclnerny Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School, and Senior School at the C. Everett Koop Institute, also at Dartmouth. From 1981 to 1989 he served as the United States Surgeon General and continues to educate the public about health issues through his writings. Dr. Koop has authored some 230 articles and books, and holds 37 honorary doctorates. 2. to have early memories of 动词短语，用于回忆往事的习惯表达形式，意为： 还记得当时/过去……，e.g. I still have early memories of teasing my grandpa. 3. by cutting pictures out of magazines using both my right and left hands 当动词 use 用于分词时，与其它动词（如：cut）不一样，无需用介词 by 引导，整个 分词短语往往放置在句后，并且也无需用逗号将其分开 4. chemistry set 化学实验装置 5. conducting what may have been some rather sophisticated experiments for a 12-year-old 句法结构 may have + 过去分词用于对过去发生的事情所做出 的一种判断或猜测，意为：做了一些对一个十二岁孩子来说可能是较为复杂 的实验 6. stray cats 流浪猫（比较：homeless people 流浪街头/无家可归的人） 7. Brooklyn 地名，美国纽约市由五个区 borough 组成，布鲁克林区是其中的 一个区 8. to lose a patient 动词 lose 在临床上表示“未能成功救活病人” 9. at age 86 简略表达，= at the age of 86 10. a high school senior 中学第四年或最后一年学生 11. concluding paragraph 文章的结尾段，相对文章的开头第一段 opening paragraph 12. nothing would give me a bigger thrill and would please me more than to operate on a human being 这是由名词或动词否定形式、助动词 would 或 could 和 比较级形式构成一种特定的肯定语法结构， e.g. Your timing could not be better. I couldn’t agree with you more. 13. a handful of = a small number of, a group of 14. corrected surgically 在医学上译为：通过外科手术矫正