广播电视英语短句 第 163 课：过早死亡-2

The report appeared last week in the Lancet medical journal. 报告刊登于上周出版的柳叶刀医学杂志。

Worldwide, in the last forty years, death rates have decreased nineteen percent for men. 在过去的40年当中，全球范围内男性的死亡率下降了19%。

But the study found that death rates for women have fallen by thirty-four percent. 而有研究发现，女性的死亡率下降了34%。

Chris Murray from the University of Washington in the Pacific Northwest led the study. 来自太平洋西北区华盛顿大学的Chris Murray主导了这项研究。

He says major progress has been made since nineteen seventy in reducing deaths of mothers and children. 他表示，从20世纪70年代开始，在降低母亲和儿童死亡率方面取得了巨大的进展。