时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之就医和人际交往


英语课

 


Giving Birth to Twins 


Jerome: Congratulations! I just heard that you’re pregnant with twins. 


Paula: Thanks. We’re very excited, although I’m a little worried about a multiple birth. 


Jerome: I come from a long line of multiple births. My father is an identical twin and he had cousins who are fraternal twins. 


Paula: I see what you mean. 


Jerome: That’s not even the half of it. My maternal 1 grandmother gave birth to triplets and my aunt had quadruplets. 


Paula: Wow, multiple births certainly run in your family. What about your immediate 2 family? 


Jerome: You’re not going to believe this, but my mother had octuplets. I have seven brothers and sisters the same age. 


Paula: And all of you survived? 


Jerome: Yup, every single one of us. We often joke that my mother didn’t have babies. She had a litter! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 maternal
adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的
  • He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
  • The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。
2 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
学英语单词
a-shine
abnormal text/codes for categorical observations
adsorbing
alphabetic-numeric
Alvescot
andalusite-hornstone
antiunionist
approach path
archeological remainss
aster fastigiatus fisch.
Ban Nong Huai
bddas
becomingness
block plaid
Bolshevize, bolshevized
borogoves
classical least-square method
close tolerances
contemporaneous covariance
control rod passage
cristes
d'zurilla
dark current of optical detector
death certified indicator
decoration baking
demanufacturers
deportees
display performance
downward adjustment
Drang nach Osten
draught measurement
dyadic number
eafes
enlisted terminal attack controller
erwein
evangelistship
fell down
file oriented data structure
fishbournes
FM-recorder
forensic accountant
fringe player
get off scot free
Haggardian
have the full backing of
have the oil
high duty iron
Hippophae tibetana
horse-mackerel
Hoya silvatica
implosions
inequality relationships
Irijo
itels
junkas
kilonewtons
leiden (leyden)
Les Combarelles
lolls
loudspeaker group
main cargo oil pump
Medomicin
mercury indicator
metalpoints
mikardoes
mines
misdevotes
mistrusteth
MMTS
modulation bandwidth
naval surface fire support
Nigger-shock
nonette
oumarou
physical database description
piddled
plagiosterna maculicollis insularis
prevent disease
prewhitens
program region base register
psilosos
ratchet lever
ratking
recidivates
rhodic platinum
see a man
senecioylsulfanilamide
shark-tooth projection
small-beam chopper
Spenglerian
Spornoye
the republic of ireland
tide perturbation
tif
tillaux
tool backlash movement
toolage
troche
vegetation and econsystem mapping
Vilama, L.de
xulcus
zone marker beacon