纪录片《药物依赖》 第17期：药物的伦理性

But sometimes drug companies

不过有时候 制药公司

are not the first people to see that.

并不是最先意识到这一点的人

In the UK, one third of all women

在英国 三分之一的育年龄妇女

of reproductive age take the contraceptive pill.

都会服用避孕药物

Worldwide, a hundred million rely on it,

全世界 约有一亿人依赖这种药物

but it almost never reached the market.

但最初 它差一点未能进入市场

In the 1950s, research into contraception was illegal

在20世纪50年代 研发避孕药

in many parts of the world and where it was legal,

在许多国家是非法的 即便在合法国家

pharmaceutical¹ firms feared a moral backlash.

制药公司也害怕遭遇道德问题

Despite this, independent researchers did discover

除此之外 独立研究人员也发现了

how to synthetically² create female hormones³.

合成制造女性荷尔蒙的方法

They realised giving these to women as a pill

他们意识到 给女性服用药物

would change their fundamental biology

可以改变她们的生理状态

and stop them ovulating,

使其停止排卵

preventing them from getting pregnant.

从而避免怀孕

Pharmaceutical companies were reluctant

制药公司当时对于这一项目的支持

to back the project,

并不情愿

so when one did get behind it,

所以当一个制药公司着手支持该项目时

the pill was brought to the market

这种药物只是作为

as a drug for heavy periods,

治疗月经过多的药剂进入市场

but women soon cottoned on to its real potential.

不过女人们很快发现了它的真实作用

1 pharmaceutical   

adj.药学的，药物的；药用的，药剂师的

参考例句：

• She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室。
• We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。

2 synthetically   

adv. 综合地，合成地

参考例句：

• The time sequence model synthetically reflects trends of groundwater level. 总体来说，季节性时序模型的模拟和预测精度较高。
• You can't do It'synthetically, by just flying around and dropping in. 你不能仅靠坐着飞机到处蜻蜓点水地看看就得出一个综合印象。

3 hormones   

n. 荷尔蒙，激素 名词hormone的复数形式

参考例句：

• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body. 这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
• The adrenals produce a large per cent of a man's sex hormones. 肾上腺分泌人体的大部分性激素。