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华慧考研：题源报刊精读Hope for Meth Addiction (1)
A decade ago I traveled on assignment to a Rocky Mountain rehab facility where the rich and famous go to dry out and confront their drug habits. It offered every imaginable therapy to its well-heeled clientele and claimed strong results. But I will never forget what the director of operations told me about the clinic’s biggest failure: “Our results with meth addicts are dismal,” he admitted.
十年前，我被派往落基山一家康复中心，许多富人和名流在那戒酒。它为富有的客户提供了所有能够想象的疗法，并声称取得了很好的效果。但我永远不会忘记运营总监告诉我的关于该诊所最失败之处：“我们治疗冰毒成瘾的效果不尽如人意。”
Poor results remain all too typical for what is more formally known as methamphetamine use disorder. About one million people in the U.S. are addicted to meth, a powerful stimulant that—smoked, snorted, injected or swallowed—ruins lives and contributed to more than 12,000 overdose deaths in 2018. Fatal overdoses appear to have spiked by nearly 35 percent during the COVID pandemic. Unlike people battling alcoholism or opioid misuse, meth users have no approved medications to help them shake their habit. And most behavioral therapies fail.
而针对学名称之为甲基苯丙胺的滥用这一情况，情况也十分糟糕。在美国，大约有100万人对冰毒上瘾。冰毒是一种强烈的兴奋剂，无论是吸食、注射还是吞食，都会致死，2008年超过12,000人因过量摄入冰毒死亡。COVID大流行期间，摄入过量致死数增长近35%。与戒除酒精依赖和阿片类药物滥用的人不同，冰毒摄入者没有获准药物帮助他们戒掉这一习惯，且大多疗法都失败了。
【积累表达】
dry out 戒酒；变干涸
typical for 典型的
use disorder 滥用
be addicted to 对……上瘾
shake one’s habbit 改变习惯
【重要词汇】
dismal a.阴暗的，忧郁的；（景色等）凄凉的，荒凉的；凄惨的
snort v.从鼻孔吸入（毒品）；喷鼻息（表示不耐烦、厌恶、欢娱等）
snort with rage 愤怒地哼了一声
swallow v.吞，咽；（海浪、群众等）吞噬，使……没入（看不见）；耗尽，用尽；忍受；收回（前言）
n.燕子
spike v.迅速升值；用尖物刺入；~sth.（with sth.）在……中掺入（烈酒、毒药或毒品）；拒绝发表，阻挠
The US dollar spiked to a three-month high.
美元猛然升值到三个月来最高价。
The article was spiked for fear of legal action against the newspaper.
因担心被提起诉讼，报社未发表那篇文章。
【短语迁移】
One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。
spike sb.’s gums 打乱对手的计划
A decade ago I traveled on assignment to a Rocky Mountain rehab facility where the rich and famous go to dry out and confront their drug habits. It offered every imaginable therapy to its well-heeled clientele and claimed strong results. But I will never forget what the director of operations told me about the clinic’s biggest failure: “Our results with meth addicts are dismal,” he admitted.
十年前，我被派往落基山一家康复中心，许多富人和名流在那戒酒。它为富有的客户提供了所有能够想象的疗法，并声称取得了很好的效果。但我永远不会忘记运营总监告诉我的关于该诊所最失败之处：“我们治疗冰毒成瘾的效果不尽如人意。”
Poor results remain all too typical for what is more formally known as methamphetamine use disorder. About one million people in the U.S. are addicted to meth, a powerful stimulant that—smoked, snorted, injected or swallowed—ruins lives and contributed to more than 12,000 overdose deaths in 2018. Fatal overdoses appear to have spiked by nearly 35 percent during the COVID pandemic. Unlike people battling alcoholism or opioid misuse, meth users have no approved medications to help them shake their habit. And most behavioral therapies fail.
而针对学名称之为甲基苯丙胺的滥用这一情况，情况也十分糟糕。在美国，大约有100万人对冰毒上瘾。冰毒是一种强烈的兴奋剂，无论是吸食、注射还是吞食，都会致死，2008年超过12,000人因过量摄入冰毒死亡。COVID大流行期间，摄入过量致死数增长近35%。与戒除酒精依赖和阿片类药物滥用的人不同，冰毒摄入者没有获准药物帮助他们戒掉这一习惯，且大多疗法都失败了。
【积累表达】
dry out 戒酒；变干涸
typical for 典型的
use disorder 滥用
be addicted to 对……上瘾
shake one’s habbit 改变习惯
【重要词汇】
dismal a.阴暗的，忧郁的；（景色等）凄凉的，荒凉的；凄惨的
snort v.从鼻孔吸入（毒品）；喷鼻息（表示不耐烦、厌恶、欢娱等）
snort with rage 愤怒地哼了一声
swallow v.吞，咽；（海浪、群众等）吞噬，使……没入（看不见）；耗尽，用尽；忍受；收回（前言）
n.燕子
spike v.迅速升值；用尖物刺入；~sth.（with sth.）在……中掺入（烈酒、毒药或毒品）；拒绝发表，阻挠
The US dollar spiked to a three-month high.
美元猛然升值到三个月来最高价。
The article was spiked for fear of legal action against the newspaper.
因担心被提起诉讼，报社未发表那篇文章。
【短语迁移】
One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。
spike sb.’s gums 打乱对手的计划
