vindicate v. 证明正确
twang v. 拨动弦声
难句突破:
On the face of things, a fall in the number of people infected with HIV from 39.5m to 33.2m over the course of a single year, as reported in this years AIDS epidemic update from the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS, should be cause for rejoicing.
[主体句式]A fall should be cause for rejoicing.
[结构分析] 这是一个简单句。On the face of things是句子的状语,而as 引导的定语从句是用来修饰前面的a fall in the number。
[句子译文] 世界卫生组织和UNAIDS报告的本年度艾滋病最新数据表明,在短短一年的时间内感染HIV的人数从3950万人减少到3320万人,表面上来看这确实令人欣喜。
But they are also a reflection of the hard graft of public-health workers in many countries, who have persuaded millions of people to modify or abandon risky behaviour, such as having unprotected sex, as they have also created the medical infrastructure needed to distribute anti-retroviral drugs that can keep symptoms at bay in those who do become infected.
[主体句式] But they are also a reflection of
[结构分析] 这是一个复合句, 表语的定语结构比较复杂;在该定语中,who引导的定语从句修饰前面的workers,后面such as结构用来修饰risky behaviour; such as后面是两个并列的成分, 一个为动名词短语,一个是句子;在这个并列成分的句子中,有一个以that引导的定语从句用来修饰drugs。
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