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Message de moonlit-sunset posté le 05-06-2011 à 21:07:07 (S | E | F)
Hello everybody !
Could you please help me with the coloured expressions below ?
I did a transcription of a video
Lien Internet
but I have problems with some words / expressions. Of course, there may be mistakes elsewhere in the text !
Thank you in advance.
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These pills are the difference between life and death. INGENIO internation reasearch suggests they almost completely prevent the HIV virus being passed on. Some 6 million people with HIV in poorer countries benefit from their protection but 9 million who could benefit don't. The UN's aid organization says it can reach everyone if governments pledge more money. But that seems unlikely in the current economic climate.
"We are scared. If we don't have the resources, even the 6.6 million people who are on treatment will start to stop it and we know that today we'll stop them dying and that's why, I think, this global solidarity needs to continue, to be active. If not, we will have a major problem."
The hard part is getting the drugs plus the health information and then monitoring and testing capacity to the poorest countries in the world. The cost will be 6 billion dollars a year, on top of the 16 already being spent. But campaigners say it's worth spending the money now to get a grip on the epidemic and reduce the cost of treatment in the future.
"If we don't invest now, it's an infectious disease, it keeps on going, so we really have a turning point : will we say "do it, take the path, we'll invest a bit more now, and what that gets us is break the back of the epidemic and if we do that, then we will succeed.
Next week, the UN general assembly will hold a special session on HIV and aids. Governments can look back on a decade of major progress, but they'll also have to answer big questions about how much they are prepared to pay to change the future course of the epidemic.
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Modifié par lucile83 le 05-06-2011 21:10
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Modifié par moonlit-sunset le 06-06-2011 09:36
Message de moonlit-sunset posté le 05-06-2011 à 21:07:07 (S | E | F)
Hello everybody !
Could you please help me with the coloured expressions below ?
I did a transcription of a video
Lien Internet
but I have problems with some words / expressions. Of course, there may be mistakes elsewhere in the text !
Thank you in advance.
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These pills are the difference between life and death. INGENIO internation reasearch suggests they almost completely prevent the HIV virus being passed on. Some 6 million people with HIV in poorer countries benefit from their protection but 9 million who could benefit don't. The UN's aid organization says it can reach everyone if governments pledge more money. But that seems unlikely in the current economic climate.
"We are scared. If we don't have the resources, even the 6.6 million people who are on treatment will start to stop it and we know that today we'll stop them dying and that's why, I think, this global solidarity needs to continue, to be active. If not, we will have a major problem."
The hard part is getting the drugs plus the health information and then monitoring and testing capacity to the poorest countries in the world. The cost will be 6 billion dollars a year, on top of the 16 already being spent. But campaigners say it's worth spending the money now to get a grip on the epidemic and reduce the cost of treatment in the future.
"If we don't invest now, it's an infectious disease, it keeps on going, so we really have a turning point : will we say "do it, take the path, we'll invest a bit more now, and what that gets us is break the back of the epidemic and if we do that, then we will succeed.
Next week, the UN general assembly will hold a special session on HIV and aids. Governments can look back on a decade of major progress, but they'll also have to answer big questions about how much they are prepared to pay to change the future course of the epidemic.
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Modifié par lucile83 le 05-06-2011 21:10
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Modifié par moonlit-sunset le 06-06-2011 09:36
Réponse: BBC/HIV aids de notrepere, postée le 05-06-2011 à 21:41:34 (S | E)
HelloThese pills are the difference between life and death.
"We are scared. If we don't have the resources, even the 6.6 million people who are on treatment will start to stop it and we know that today we'll stop them dying and that's why, I think, this global solidarity needs to continue, to be active. If not, we will have a major problem."
The hard part is getting the drugs plus the health information and then monitoring and testing capacity to the poorest countries in the world. The cost will be 6 billion dollars a year, on top of the 16 already being spent. But campaigners say it's worth spending the money now to get a grip on the epidemic and reduce the cost of treatment in the future.
"If we don't invest now, it's an infectious disease, it keeps on going, so
Next week, the UN general assembly will hold a special session on HIV and aids. Governments can look back on a decade of major progress, but they'll also have to answer big questions about how much they are prepared to pay to change the future course of the epidemic.
Réponse: BBC/HIV aids de moonlit-sunset, postée le 05-06-2011 à 22:11:43 (S | E)
Thank you notrepere, very helpful as usual ! I hope you're not bored with me
Could you please explain me the part "and what that gets us is it breaks the back of the epidemic ", I understand neither the meaning, nor the sentence structure.
Many thanks
Moonlit-Sunset
Réponse: BBC/HIV aids de gerondif, postée le 05-06-2011 à 22:40:04 (S | E)
Hello,
you have to understand the sentence from the beginning:
"Do we take the path where we invest a bit more now, and what that gets us is it breaks the back of the epidemic and if we do that, then we will succeed.
I won't translate it but give you a sentence with an equivalent meaning:
Do we decide to invest a little more money, which would as a result destroy the epidemic and if we did that, then we would succeed.
I agree that the original structure is awkward:
what that gets us = what it gives us= what it entails = the result will be
it breaks the back of the epidemic: it is a simple image: to break the back(back being a part of the body): to kill, to destroy, in French an equivalent would be "tordre le cou", the result being the same as regards the spine !
Réponse: BBC/HIV aids de notrepere, postée le 06-06-2011 à 08:40:14 (S | E)
HelloWell if gérondif won't try to translate it, then I won't either.
The back is our "support". It is what "holds us up(right)". When the back is broken, that breaks the support or the thing that is holding us (or in this case "it - the disease") up. Breaking the back takes out the support and makes it collapse. I hope this helps.Réponse: BBC/HIV aids de moonlit-sunset, postée le 06-06-2011 à 12:44:40 (S | E)
Thank you for your answers. Actually my problem was more with "what that gets us is", it was the first time I had seen this expression. But I understand it now, thanks to your explanations.
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