BBC 英语学习 News Review 阿尔茨海默病药物的希望

Could Alzheimer soon be treated as easily as asthma?

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I'm Neil, and

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new drugs could completely change the way alzheimer's is treated.

The medication slows down memory loss and confusion.

According to recent scientific trials, this means people with the disease could still do everyday tasks like shopping, cooking and cleaning.

Scientists hope that alzheimer's will be managed as easily as asthma and diabetes.

You ve been looking at the headlines, beth, what's the vocabulary?

We have turning points, beginning of the end.

And to remember, this is news review from BBC, learning English.

Let's have a look at our 1st headline.

This is from The Guardian. Experts urge health regulators to approve turning point dementia drugs.

So this headline describes these drugs as a turning point.

Turning point is the expression that we're looking at.

And if you literally turn, it's because you have made a decision.

So, e.g. you're walking down the road, you decide that you need to go into a shop to buy something.

You turn literally. Yes, that's literally.

And it helps with understanding the metaphorical meaning, because turning point, or a turning point, is a big change.

So it's going from one idea to another, or maybe something positive to something negative, or something negative to something positive.

Yes. So this headline is describing these drugs as a turning point.

It could mean a really big change for people with alzheimer's.

That's right. And this expression is very often used when we're talking about a change for the positive, just like in this headline.

Another example could be when you have children.

It's a turning point in your life.

Yes, that's a really big change for people.

Also, if you get a new job, we could call that a turning point.

Let's look at that again. Let's look at our next headline.

This is from Sky News. New alzheimer's drugs could spell beginning of the end for disease.

Yes. So these drugs could be the beginning of the end.

That means the start of events that lead to something finishing.

It sounds a little bit confusing.

Can you explain more better? Yes.

So the beginning of the end is used in the headline, because these drugs are now being tested and they might become available soon.

So that means we're at the start of the disease becoming easier to manage, which could then kind of be the end for alzheimer's as we know it today.

Yes? So this expression is usually used for quite big things, like a cure for a disease.

So, e.g. when the covid vaccines became available, it was the beginning of the end of the pandemic.

That's right. And it's much more common nowadays to type on a phone or a computer.

So what you think, neil, could it be the beginning of the end for the pen and pencil?

Could be yes. Let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This is from The Times.

The Times View on alzheimer's drug treatments Breakthrough to Remember.

So this headline calls these drugs a breakthrough to remember.

A breakthrough is an important discovery or development we're looking at to remember.

Now, remember, we all know that we do, but this is to remember.

So we use it after a noun, and we mean that something is so important that it will be remembered by a lot of people, maybe even far into the future.

Yes. So the headline is saying that this breakthrough, these drugs are very important to the world of science.

It's a memorable event. And they use to remember to mean that exactly.

We can also use this with personal situations.

Maybe you have a birthday party with all your family and friends, and you say, wow, it was a night to remember.

You're not gonna forget it because it was so

great. Maybe your wedding day was a day to remember, yeah.

Now, it's important to point out that this is a clever headline.

It's got a double meaning, as

we often see in headlines. It uses to remember this expression.

And of course, one of the main symptoms of alzheimer's is not being able to remember things.

Let's look at that again.

We had turning point, a big change, usually for the better, beginning of the end, the start of something bad, stopping and to remember unforgettable.

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