Stay of Execution 推迟销毁天花病毒标本
[color=#333333][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=13px][audio]http://language.chinadaily.com.cn/bbc/media_english/assets_10886258/me_139_smallpox_110527_me_139_smallpox_audio_au_bb.mp3[/audio][/size][/font][/color][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][p=30, 2, left]Smallpox [b]was eradicated [/b]in 1979 - but two stocks of live smallpox virus remain.[/p][p=30, 2, left]For years the debate over what to do with them [b]has raged[/b] - in Geneva developing countries argued it was [b]high time[/b] to destroy all known [b]samples[/b] of a virus which in the past claimed millions of lives.[/p][p=30, 2, left]But the United States and Russia, the two countries which hold the virus samples - wanted to keep them for at least another five years - saying that if smallpox ever [b]re-emerged[/b] - either by accident or even [b]deliberately[/b] - the samples could be needed to create a vaccine.[/p][p=30, 2, left]That argument seemed finally, after days of division, [b]to sway[/b]member states, and they approved [b]a compromise[/b] - [b]postponing[/b] a decision on destroying the virus samples for another three years.[/p][p=30, 2, left]And so [b]the fate of [/b]one of the world's deadliest viruses is still not decided - and the debate over whether the world is safer with it, or without it, will continue.[/p][/font] rage v 猛烈地继续下去
sway v 影响、改变…的观点
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