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 lot Much water has gone beneath the bridge since.
acarbathogenin
age at sexual maturity
amphibious vehicle launching areas
artuose
arvc
backsies
backup programmer
bacteriostat
baloglu
Beaufort Marine Corps Air Station
bindabler
binh dinh
bipolarize
blade angle shift
blow-overs
Cheremnoye
cognitive measurement
compressed video
containment steel liner
contract labor system
control sensor
Dannemora
deck hand uncertificated
deep common ligament of wrist joint
descriptive chemical oceanography
dibels
economic model construction
egg-feed ratio
emancipatory knowledge
excited field voltmeter
fixed-frequency transmitter
flexible coupling
food toxicology
four stroke oil engine
genus Ouranopithecus
geoffreys
get off easy
ghost pieces
glycol dimyristate
goddesships
Gotterdammerung
gray-brown podzolic soil
gun turrets
half-dry
holmium
holy-water sprinkle
ignorantisms
IQI (image quality indicator)
item no
jr.
lauran
leave someone alone
lections
ligularia fischeri turcz.
load module
loess concretion
Malempré
Mediterranean fruitfly
Milleville Beach
mobile cecum
molecular-biology
momentum of cyclic motion
most of water utilised in animal's body
non-alignments
ordinary budget
osbournes
osseo
Pharaoh's mouse
phenologies
photoluminescence powder
pitted thickened cell wall
pointered
practicer
procyanidin
pugniard
removal of adsorbed impurities
rempel
rollerblader
ruckersville
Sebin
seigniors
sellerar
side float type
smsisdsdslses-s
statutory ceiling
synagogues
ta ha
Tabasarans
tangent bender
teach the cat the way to the kirn
The devil takes the hindmost
thirty minutes
thrombosis of splenic vein
triple-silo complex
ullmannite
ultrashort-period binary
veratrum shueshanarum
Vinyl Alkyd
word analysis
workgangs
zero-profit equilibrium