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今天的划线翻译句虽然短，但是翻译起来可能会比较拗口，建议大家都动笔/打字翻出来试试，没有什么很好的办法，翻译出来之后根据中文的用语习惯调整下语序，适当合并表意重复的单词，最后检查下是否有单词漏译即可。
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上期划线句答案
Mr. Trump went on to use TikTok with great success during the campaign, and has said that it was a key vehicle for reaching young people this year.
特朗普在竞选期间使用抖音海外版取得了巨大成功，并表示这是今年接触年轻人的一个重要工具。
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本期内容
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双语阅读
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Lead is toxic to every system in the human body. This week marks 60 years since a crucial study by Mitsunobu Tatsumoto and Clair Patterson in Nature found that the world’s oceans were awash with lead (M. Tatsumoto and C. Patterson Nature 199, 350–352; 1963). Contamination from petrol, paint and industrial sources had leaked planet-wide — it was a public-health crisis. Since then, the fight against lead poisoning has seen great success: in 2021, leaded fuels were completely phased out. Yet much remains to be done.
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Around the world, 815 million children — 1 in 3 — have dangerous levels of lead in their bloodstream, enough to cause irreversible brain damage, intellectual disability, lower educational attainment, behavioural disorders, reduced lifetime earnings, anaemia, kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. The health effects in children and adults lead to nearly one million deaths annually and widespread disability. Lead’s impacts on cognitive development are estimated to cause nearly US$1 trillion of income loss in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) each year.
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The shocking lack of attention to such an enormous and solvable problem is probably because 94% of the disease burden from lead exposure happens in LMICs. Each year, only about $10 million of international funding is spent on addressing global lead poisoning. This is orders of magnitude less than the $8.2 billion that governments donated last year for HIV/AIDS, which similarly kills nearly one million people a year.
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Laws banning lead paint are highly effective at preventing lead exposure— but there are more than 70 countries without lead-paint laws, and others where such laws are not well enforced. Strong laws and enforcement are the main things we call for at the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP), at which I am a programme manager and team leader.
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LEEP supports governments to ban the manufacture and sale of lead paints, working collaboratively with industry and non-governmental organizations. Over the past three years, 6 of our 12 governmental partners — Malawi, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Pakistan and Ghana — have committed to regulating lead paint, and industries in four of these countries are already switching to non-lead paint.
本文节选自：Nature（自然）
发布时间：2023.7.25
作者：Nafisatou Cissé
原文标题：Saving tens of millions of children a year from the effects of lead poisoning is a surprisingly solvable problem
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写作句总结
原句：Strong laws and enforcement are the main things we call for at the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP), at which I am a programme manager and team leader.
结构：X and Y are the main things we call for at Z, at which I am A and B.
例句：Regular exercise and a balanced diet are the main things we emphasize in the Wellness Program, at which I am a coordinator and health advisor.
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阅读理解题
Which of the following best describes the main reason why the issue of lead poisoning receives so little international funding, according to the article?
A. The problem is not solvable.
B. Lead poisoning only affects a small number of people worldwide.
C. The majority of lead poisoning cases occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
D. There is no reliable data on the health effects of lead poisoning.
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全文概括
Lead poisoning remains a significant global health crisis, affecting millions of children and causing substantial economic losses, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Despite the success of phasing out leaded fuels, inadequate international funding and the lack of effective lead paint regulations in many nations hinder progress in eliminating this preventable problem. The Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) actively works with governments and industries to implement and enforce lead paint bans, showing promising results in several countries. The long-term health consequences of lead exposure are severe and widespread, impacting cognitive development, and resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality.
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