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Death is inevitable, but not disease. Bacteria and viruses are no mean adversaries, nor are they easily defeated. (46)If we fail
Death is inevitable, but not disease. Bacteria and viruses are no mean adversaries, nor are they easily defeated. (46)If we fail
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2014-06-13
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Death is inevitable, but not disease. Bacteria and viruses are no mean adversaries, nor are they easily defeated. (46)
If we fail to be watchful or to protect those most at risk, a public-health catastrophe is inevitable, and yet somewhere within the span of the last thirty years the idea of the common good has disappeared from our national consciousness, giving way to the misconception that we no longer need concern ourselves with the welfare of our fellow citizens.
It is a dangerous conceit, and it leads us toward a future infected with unprecedented and unnecessary disease.
A public-health system is only as strong as its weakest link; an epidemic enforces, in the most rigorous fashion, the American credo that all men are created equal. (47)
If we allow one segment of our society to suffer and perish from preventable diseases, little stands in the way of collective doom.
Yet today, 44 million people in the United States are without health insurance; those who can afford to pay for it generally receive inferior treatment, despite the fact that Americans spend $1.4 trillion annually for their health care. Prevention becomes secondary to simply keeping people alive. (48)
We must not simply concern ourselves with the state of American public health; as distances collapse and human populations grow ever more mobile, so also new and deadly diseases find their way across deserts and oceans.
Ironically, the medical revolutions of the twentieth century have contributed to our over-confident neglect of the public-health infrastructure. (49)
We spend vast sums to lengthen the lives of terminally ill patients by a few days and refuse to make modest investments that would prevent millions of needless illnesses and death.
The Americans we know pay too much for their health care, and compared with other countries we receive a very poor return on our investment. The reason are many, but they are not hard to understand: in essence, we have tended historically to view health care as a commodity like any other. But health is not a product; it is a public good. The evidence is clear even when viewed through the reductive lens of purely economic self-interest, market-based medicine is a failure. Healing people after they fall ill is vastly more expensive than preventing the illness in the first place. (50)
Yet policymakers have consistently preferred the most expensive and least efficient models of health care, proving once again that the supporters of privatization are motivated not by practical economics but by an ideology that is little more than a mask concealing the most irrational self-interest.
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如果我们忽视了或者没能保护好那些最易受疾病侵扰的人群,那么公共卫生灾难将不可避免但是自过去30年中某个时候开始,公共福祉这个概念在我们的民族意识中已经不复存在,取而代之的是一种错误概念—我们不用再为我们国民的福祉操心了。
解析
此题目句子较长,结构复杂,有一个伴随状语,此伴随状语中还有一个同位语从句。参考译文将该句子译成了两个独立的句子。首先,fail to be watchful不能直译为"不警惕",因为"不警惕"不宜跟后面的宾语"人群"搭配。因此,不防反话正说,把"不警惕"按其语义改为"忽视"以与宾语"人群"搭配。另外,译文没有将giving way to译为"(公共福祉这个概念)让位给…",而译为"取而代之的是…",突出了目前错误概念的强势地位,符合整篇文章的内容。译文将同位语从句用破折号引导,简洁明了。考查点:长句子的分拆方法。
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