Jan. 5, 2020
1-take over 接手,接管
2-fertility 生育能力,繁殖力
Hungarian government takes over fertility clinics to boost birth rate.
3-in a bid to 为了
Hungary's government has taken over six privately owned fertility clinics and boosted funding to make treaments accessible to many more couples in a bid to reverse population decline.
4-make a priority to ……作为头等大事,优先考虑项
5-incentive 激励,刺激
6-anathema to 对……是讨厌的事
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made it a priority to boost the population and reverse a labor shortage with incentives to raise the birth rate rather than increase immigration, anathema to the nationalist leader.
7-a string of 一系列的
8-subsidize 津贴,补助
His government has already introduced a string of measures, including tax benefits, subsidized loans and other programs to favor families.
9-ruling 政令
10-gazette (尤指政府的)公报
11-in-vitro fertilization 人工受孕
12-designate 指定,指派
13-exempt from 免除,豁免
In a ruling published in the official gazette late on Thursday, the government said it had brought six clinics specialized in in-vitro fertilization under state ownership and control, designating the move an issue of "national strategic importance", and exempting it from competition rules.
14-abolition 废除
He has urged an abolition of limitations on state financing IVF treatments.
15-as of/from 自……起
The government also said the drugs used in fertility treaments would be free of charge as of Jan. 1.
16-scheme 计划,策划
The government scheme to promote marriage and childbirth with subsidized loans has already helped produce a boom weddings, though it is still too eraly to say whether more babies will follow.
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