给…造成伤亡(或损失)

    随着埃博拉病毒的肆虐，非洲西部经济的发展已经严重受到阻碍，人们生活也收到巨大冲击。请看本报昨日的报道：

    The worst-ever outbreak of the Ebola virus is taking a heavy toll on West Africa’s economy as crops rot in the fields, mines are abandoned and goods cannot get to market.

    The epidemic has ravaged the region since it erupted in the forests in the south of Guinea earlier this year, killing 1,427 people and infecting thousands more.

    Health officials said the fever had spread to every corner of Liberia, the worst-hit country in the grip of the epidemic where 624 people have died so far. But beyond the mounting death toll, the disease is also undermining the region’s economic growth and threatening the long-term development of some of the world’s poorest countries.

    报道中的take a heavy toll on 就是“给…造成重大伤亡(或损失)”