rock and the hard place：巖石和堅(jiān)硬的地方 The Liberian government was aware of the risks associated with Zmapp,but the alternative was to allow many more people to die,Information Minister Lewis Brown told the BBC on Monday.
"The alternative for not testing this is death,a certain death," he said,
"This is not even the rock and the hard place for us," he said,referring to the country's health services,which he says are overburdened with patients carrying the disease.：
利比里亞政府意識(shí)到這些風(fēng)險(xiǎn)與Zmapp有關(guān),但另一種選擇是讓更多的人死去,信息部長(zhǎng)路易斯·布朗周一告訴BBC.
“另一種沒有測(cè)試這是死亡,一定死,”他說,
“這不是連巖石和堅(jiān)硬的地方,”他說,指的是國家的衛(wèi)生服務(wù),他說病人攜帶的疾病負(fù)擔(dān)過重.