GRE閱讀長(zhǎng)難句練習(xí)及譯文十二

　　1. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death."

　　2. On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted—suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.

　　3. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end--of--life care.

　　4. In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing new.

　　5. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education, and class.

　　1.[參考譯文]Nancy Dubler，Montehore醫(yī)療中心的主任，認(rèn)為這一原則將會(huì)保護(hù)這樣一些醫(yī)生，他們到目前為止還強(qiáng)烈堅(jiān)持他們不能夠給病人足量的鎮(zhèn)痛劑來控制他們的疼痛，如果這么做會(huì)加速他們的死亡的話。

　　2.[參考譯文]在另一個(gè)層面上，很多醫(yī)療界的人承認(rèn)，關(guān)于醫(yī)生幫助下的自殺的討論部分是因?yàn)椴∪说慕^望情緒，對(duì)他們來說，現(xiàn)代醫(yī)學(xué)已經(jīng)延長(zhǎng)了死亡的身體痛苦。

　　3.[參考譯文]它把對(duì)疼痛的治療不足和盲目積極使用"有可能延長(zhǎng)死亡時(shí)間甚至讓死亡過程蒙羞的無效并且強(qiáng)迫性的醫(yī)療手段"視為生命臨終醫(yī)護(hù)的兩個(gè)問題。

　　4.[參考譯文]換句話說，在媒介機(jī)構(gòu)的新聞采編室文化中存在著--套約定俗成的寫作模式，為新聞報(bào)道提供了主干框架以及可直接套用的敘述結(jié)構(gòu)。若沒有這些，新聞內(nèi)容就會(huì)一團(tuán)混亂，讓人摸不著頭腦。

　　5.[參考譯文]如果新聞界真的注意到了問題的關(guān)鍵，它就應(yīng)該進(jìn)一步開放其多樣化項(xiàng)目，這個(gè)項(xiàng)目現(xiàn)在還只單純考慮招收不同種族和性別的員工，而進(jìn)一步尋找那些世界觀、價(jià)值觀、教育水平和社會(huì)階層大相徑庭的各種記者。