时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之就医和人际交往


英语课

 


Taking Prescription 1 Drugs 


Paula: Okay, I’m off to bed. 


Marcus: Wait a second. Where are you going with all of those pill bottles? 


Paula: My doctor prescribed a couple of medications to help me sleep. 


Marcus: Let me see those. You have four different medications here. This is a painkiller 2, this is a sedative 3, this is a tranquilizer, and this is a stimulant 4


Paula: I don’t take that last one when I go to bed. 


Marcus: You mean you take the first three every night? 


Paula: Not every night. 


Marcus: I can’t believe that your doctor would prescribe all three of these medications just to help you sleep. This seems like overkill. 


Paula: I saw more than one doctor. They each gave me a different prescription. 


Marcus: How do you know they won’t interact and produce side effects? 


Paula: A doctor prescribed each one. I’m sure they’re safe. 


Marcus: Yes, but does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? I’m confiscating 5 these until you can talk to a doctor or pharmacist to make sure you won’t overdose by taking all three of these at one time. 


Paula: But how will I fall asleep until then? 


Marcus: You’re always telling me how boring I am. I’ll just regale 6 you with stories of my youth. Let’s start at the beginning. My earliest memory is... 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 prescription
n.处方,开药;指示,规定
  • The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
  • The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
2 painkiller
n.止痛药
  • I shall persuade him to take the painkiller.我将说服他把药吃下去。
  • The painkiller only provides him a short respite from his pain.止痛药仅仅让他在疼痛中有短暂的疏解。
3 sedative
adj.使安静的,使镇静的;n. 镇静剂,能使安静的东西
  • After taking a sedative she was able to get to sleep.服用了镇静剂后,她能够入睡了。
  • Amber bath oil has a sedative effect.琥珀沐浴油有镇静安神效用。
4 stimulant
n.刺激物,兴奋剂
  • It is used in medicine for its stimulant quality.由于它有兴奋剂的特性而被应用于医学。
  • Musk is used for perfume and stimulant.麝香可以用作香料和兴奋剂。
5 confiscating
没收(confiscate的现在分词形式)
  • There was Mame by my side confiscating my intellects and attention. 有玛米坐在我身边,害得我心不在焉。
  • Intimidate book sellers by confiscating books deemed unfavourable to the Barisan government. 充公被视为对国阵不利的书籍,威胁书商。
6 regale
v.取悦,款待
  • He was constantly regaled with tales of woe.别人老是给他讲些倒霉事儿来逗他开心。
  • He loved to regale his friends with tales about the many memorable characters he had known as a newspaperman.他喜欢讲些他当记者时认识的许多名人的故事给朋友们消遣。
学英语单词
a long memory
adventure-based
alpha2 globulin
argionite
average random access time
Banhā
barn dance
bayanihan (philippines)
big-three
blending feeder
building hull upside down
cable jettison
carmel-by-the-sea (carmel)
chloromatous leukemia
chromophobe cells
clomocycline
comancheite
commercial explosives
convertible engine
corporatist
court-leet
cross-section method for location of line
cyllene rubrolineata
dark time
Delbastaille's method
deoxy-arabinose
depreotide
dilute magnetic semiconductor
dodemorph
double shear rivet
drill speeder
Duffstown
eastwells
electrickery
elias canettis
endows
enforcement of foreign arbitral awards
equorums
flexible transport
folie raisonnante
goldar
heavenless
Homalin
hoodhood
individual banker
inferior longitudinal fasciculus
interferometer radar
Intermedine
ischelite (polyhalite)
isotonics
jungle law
Land of Enchantment
leasing fund
magnetic matrix switch
majest
make a profit on
Marshallville
mother abscess
multiple-action controller
mustage
myn
nakri
nonmucous
notes discounted account
paraphrasia vesana
pay to self
Pegli
pekin man
penetrate to
performance rights
phlegmatizer
Planck blackbody formula
plicae interdigitalis
polysystemicity
poster children
pseudo pressure
PTMR
quadratic utility function
radiation poison
re-active
re-channelled
repeating interval
root of
sa man chiao
San Cipriano, R.
silver suboxide
Sinocalycanthus chinensis
south sea timber
specific brightness
spur gear speed reducer
squeeze packing
starting curve
sugargliders
talk to a brick wall
tmg
triathalons
unit trial operation
uppercutting
veniremen
Vilcanota, Cord.de
welsh poppies
yours truly