2017考博英语阅读题源经济学人文章每日精析（八十三）

　　ring-fenced ['riŋfens] :adj.严格保证(资金的专门用途)

　　plug gaps [plʌg] [gæp] :填补空白

　　Those pressures have become even more evident in recent days. On January 7th the Red Cross claimed there was a “humanitarian crisis” in Britain’s hospitals. The NHS’s medical director for acute care denied this but admitted that staff were under “a level of pressure we haven’t seen before”. According to leaked documents seen by the BBC, nearly a quarter of patients waited longer than four hours in accident and emergency (A&E) rooms in the first week of this year. One in five patients admitted for further treatment endured a long wait on a trolley or in a hospital corridor—twice the rate normally seen. With not enough mental-health care provided in the community, recent research has found that the number of people with mental illness coming to A&E doubled between 2011-12 and 2015-16.

　　那些压力在最近尤为明显。在1月7号，红十字会称在英国的医院里面有一种人道主义危机。NHS的急救药物主管否认此事但是承认了员工正承受着“前所未有”的压力。根据BBC目睹的泄露文件，将近四分之一的病人今年第一周在紧急意外室等候超过4小时。5个病人中就有一个接受进一步治疗的需要在医院的手推车或走廊上忍受一段很长时间的等待，而这是平常的速度的两倍。由于在社区没有提供足够的心理治疗，最近的调查显示有心理疾病来急诊的数量比2011-2012年和2015-2016年翻了一倍。

　　humanitarian crisis [hjʊ,mænɪ'teərɪən] ['kraɪsɪs]人道主义危机

　　leaked documents [li:kt] ['dɒkjumənts]泄露的文件

　　trolley ['trɒlɪ] :n.手推车

　　The fact that the prime minister herself has chosen to highlight the issue marks an important step, says Graham Thornicroft of King’s College London. Talking about mental health used to be seen as a vote loser. Now, he says, not only are more celebrities unafraid to talk openly about their mental illness, but it appears to have entered the mainstream as a political issue. “We now need to see if this policy priority is backed up by substantial extra resources to make sure these aspirations become reality,” he adds.

　　首相自己选择强调这一问题是向前迈出了重要的一步，伦敦皇家学院的格兰汉史鲁尼科洛福特说到。谈到心理疾病在过去被视为竞选失败者。而现在，他说，不仅越来越多的名人不再害怕公开谈论自己的心里疾病，而且这也成了主要的政治问题之一。成为。“我们现在需要确保这种政治优势是否有足够的额外资源的支撑来保证这些愿望成为现实。”他补充到。

　　mainstream ['meɪnstriːm] :n.主流

　　On that front, Mrs May is implementing a pledge made last year by her predecessor, David Cameron, to spend £1bn on adult mental health and £1.4bn on youth mental health during this parliament. That money is being spent on both acute mental health care, such as specialists at every A&E unit, and on community care. New rules limit how long a patient with acute mental illness should wait, just like the four-hour limits for physical maladies in A&E. But this week’s announcements added up to additional funding of only £15m for community care, and £67m for digital services like online therapy—small beer considering the scale of the problems and of the prime minister’savowed ambitions.

　　这些钱正被用在心理急救门诊，例如每个意外急救门诊的专家以及社区医疗上面。新的规定限制每个心理疾病患者急诊需要等待的时长，正如在意外急诊部门的外伤4小时限制。但是这周的通告增加了1500万欧元社区医疗的额外资金以及6700万的电子服务例如在线治疗—考虑到问题的规模以及首相公开宣布的目标。

　　Implement a pledge

　　['ɪmplɪm(ə)nt] [pledʒ]:实现誓言

　　malady ['mælədɪ] :n.弊病，疾病，腐败

　　avowed [ə'vaʊd] :adj.公开宣布的

　　Demand is growing. The NHS found that the proportion of people with anxiety and depression receiving treatment increased from 24% in 2007 to 37% in 2014. This may show that people are feeling confident enough to seek help as the stigma of mental illness decreases, says Mr Thornicroft. But the NHS also found that the proportion of the population reporting self-harm trebled between 2000 and 2014, to 6%, including one in five 16- to 24-year-old women. With such a tide, money to match the great promises for mental health cannot come soon enough.

　　需求正在增长。NHS发现从2007年到2014年间，接受治疗的焦虑症以及抑郁症患者的比例由24%增至37%。史鲁尼科洛福特先生说这表明了随着对心理疾病的羞耻感不断减少人们越来越有自信去寻找帮助。但是NHS同时发现从2000年到2014年间自残的比例翻了三倍至6%，其中的五分之一是16-24岁女性。按照这样的趋势，应对这样巨大的承诺所要的资金很难马上到位。

　　treble ['treb(ə)l] :adj.三倍的

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