原版英语对话：Blood Pressure(2)
时间：2019-01-15 作者：英语课 分类：英语情景对话-健康
英语课
A: How have you been feeling lately?
B: I’ve been feeling a little light-headed lately.
A: Has your blood pressure been high before?
B: If I have high blood pressure, it is news to me.
A: Usually people with high blood pressure have no symptoms, so we call it the silent killer 1.
B: What do you use to check for high blood pressure?
A: I am going to put a cuff 2 on you to get a reading.
B: What does the reading tell you?
A: I get an idea of the pressure in your arteries 3 when your heart is pumping blood versus 4 at rest.
B: I hope that the test results show me to be really healthy.
n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
n.袖口；手铐；护腕；vt.用手铐铐；上袖口
- She hoped they wouldn't cuff her hands behind her back.她希望他们不要把她反铐起来。
- Would you please draw together the snag in my cuff?请你把我袖口上的裂口缝上好吗？
n.动脉( artery的名词复数 )；干线，要道
- Even grafting new blood vessels in place of the diseased coronary arteries has been tried. 甚至移植新血管代替不健康的冠状动脉的方法都已经试过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- This is the place where the three main arteries of West London traffic met. 这就是伦敦西部三条主要交通干线的交汇处。 来自《简明英汉词典》