听新闻,学英语 - 摇钱救命药,不如学生高

听新闻,学英语 - 摇钱救命药,不如学生高

2016-12-01    09'58''

主播: 粗只的大叶

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Australian boys recreated life-saving drugs The man who sparked outrage last year by hiking the price of a life-saving drug may have met his match in some Australian schoolboys. outrage /'aʊtreɪdʒ/ n. 愤怒,愤慨 hike /haɪk/ v. 抬高价格 US executive Martin Shkreli became a symbol of greed when he raised the price of a tablet of Daraprim from $13.50 to $750. Now, Sydney school students have recreated the drug's key ingredient for just $20. Daraprim is an anti-parasitic drug used by malaria and Aids patients. tablet /'tæblɪt/ n. 药片 ingredient /ɪn'griːdɪənt/ n. 成分 parasitic /pærə’sɪtɪk/ n. 成分 "It wasn't terribly hard but that's really the point, I think, because we're high school students," one boy, Charles Jameson, told the BBC.