英语PK台 第264期:停不下来的冲动焦虑
英语课
Dialogue 1
Jingjing: Hey! Quit biting your nails! That's a bad habit!
京晶:嘿,别啃你的手指甲啦,这是个坏习惯。
Xiao Gao: It's a bad habit, I've done it since I was a kid.
小高:我知道这是个坏习惯,但是我从小就这么干了。
Jingjing: Sounds like you got OCD, do you do it a lot?
京晶:听起来你有强迫症啊?你经常会这样吗?
Xiao Gao: Yeah, pretty often. Do you ever tweak out about things like that?
小高:是,挺经常的,你有没有一些类似的事情让你焦虑的?
Jingjing: Sometimes when I'm about to put my earbuds in to listen to music, I always have to make sure that the R and L are in the correct ear.
京晶:有时当我要带塞入式耳机听音乐的时候,我总是得确定左边和右边没带反。
Xiao Gao: Ohh, you know what else drives me nuts? After I set the alarm at night to wake me up in the morning, I gotta check again like 5 minutes later to make sure I actually set it.
小高:哦,你知道还有事什么让我抓狂吗?当我在睡觉前设定好第二天早上的闹钟之后,五分钟后我肯定要再次确认一下我到底有没有上好。
Jingjing: Yeah, sometimes I have to make sure over and over that I locked the door at night before I sleep.
京晶:是,有时在睡觉之前,我要反复确认门有没有锁好。
Xiao Gao: I can't stand it when someone doesn't completely clean the blackboard in school. I'll feel really weird 1 in class and keep looking at.
小高:我还不能忍受学校的黑板没有被完全擦干净,这样的话上课的时候我会觉得很奇怪,并且要一直盯着黑板看。
Jingjing: I remember when I was going to school and our test grades would be out for us to look at, I would never go and see my score.
京晶:我记得我在上学的时候,学校会把考试成绩公布出来。我从不会过去看我的分数。
Xiao Gao: Sounds like we're both a little OCD. Hey, what does OCD stand for anyway?
小高:听起来我们都有一点儿强迫症,到底强迫症代表什么呀?
Jingjing: You tell me! Why don't you go home and do some research about it?
京晶:这得等你告诉我呀,不如你回家查查吧。
Xiao Gao: Geez, is being bossy 2 one of your OCD habits too?
小高:天哪,难道发号施令也是你的强迫症症状之一吗?
习语短语
1. OCD = 强迫症
2. tweak out = (口语)为某事焦急,着急
3. earbuds = 塞入式耳机
4. (something) drives me nuts = 某事让我抓狂
5. like = (口语) 这里指大概;例如:
I'll be there in like 5minutes.我大概5分钟后到。
6. can't stand (something) = 不能忍受某事
7. score = 成绩
8. bossy = (形容词)喜欢发号施令的,爱命令人的
Dialogue 2
Jingjing: So? What did you find out about OCD?
京晶:你查到什么有关强迫症的信息啦?
Xiao Gao: Well, it stands for Obsessive 3 Compulsive Disorder 4. Basically it's when you have a lot of anxiety and you do a lot of repetitive behaviors to make the anxiety go away.
小高:嗯,强迫症的全称是强迫性神经官能症。大致就是说你有很多的焦虑,并且必须通过重复某种行为才让这种焦虑消失。
Jingjing: What kinds of behaviors are you talking about? Did you find out about anything new?
京晶:你指的是什么样的行为?你还找到什么新的信息了吗?
Xiao Gao: Yeah I did. Do you know what hoarders are?
小高:嗯,你知道什么是囤积控吗?
Jingjing: I think so.Aren't they the people who have to round up a bunch of sheep?
京晶:知道呀,不就是那些养了很多羊的人吗?
Xiao Gao: No, those are called herders, I'm talking about hoarders! H-O-A-R-D-E-R-S. Hoarders! Hoarding 6 is when you keep a lot of things and don't throw them away, even if they are worthless or meaningless.
小高:不, 那些是牧羊人herders,我说的是囤积控hoarders, H-O-A-R-D-E-R-S。囤积控就是,尽管有些东西已经没有用处了,你还是要保留着不把它们扔掉。
Jingjing: I don't know,Xiao Gao… Your room is pretty messy. Do you think you might —
京晶:哎呀,小高,我觉得你的房间就挺杂乱的呢,你说你会不会是……
Xiao Gao: Hey! My room is messy but it's not that bad!
小高:嘿,我的房间是有点儿乱,但是也没有那么糟糕啊。
Jingjing: Anyways, do a lot of people suffer from this disorder?
京晶:哈哈,很多人都有强迫症吗?
Xiao Gao: It's fairly common. Actually, it's the fourth-most diagnosed mental disorder. One in fifty people have been diagnosed with it in the United States.
小高:嗯,这病还挺常见的,确切地说,这种病的发病率在心理疾病里排名第四,在美国,每50个人里就有一个人被确诊为有强迫症。
Jingjing: Uh oh! We're doomed 7! We probably have it too!
京晶:哦,不会吧,我们死定了!我们很可能也有这种病!
Xiao Gao: Don't worry! I think we're okay. I also learned that just because you might have some obsessive behaviors, doesn't mean that you have OCD.
小高:别担心,我觉得我们没问题,而且我还了解到,就算你有一些强迫性的行为,也不一定说明你就是强迫症。
Jingjing: Is it treatable?
京晶:这个病能治吗?
Xiao Gao: Yes. The good news is that this mental disorder is treatable with therapy and medication!
小高:是的,好消息就是这种心理疾病可以用药物和特殊疗法治愈。
Jingjing: Thanks for the info.
京晶:谢谢你告诉我这么多。
Xiao Gao: My pleasure.
小高:不客气。
习语短语
1. hoarder 5 = 囤积控,指那些执意保留一些没有用的物件儿,而不把它们们扔掉的人
2. round up (something) = 收集,聚集
3. fairly = 相当地;例如:
I was fairly sure that she was innocent.
我相当肯定她是无辜的。
4. We're doomed. 我们玩儿完了。
5. The good news is… = 好消息就是……(通常用于说了一个坏消息之后)
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
- From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
- His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
adj.爱发号施令的,作威作福的
- She turned me off with her bossy manner.她态度专橫很讨我嫌。
- She moved out because her mother-in-law is too bossy.她的婆婆爱指使人,所以她搬出去住了。
adj. 着迷的, 强迫性的, 分神的
- Some people are obsessive about cleanliness.有些人有洁癖。
- He's becoming more and more obsessive about punctuality.他对守时要求越来越过分了。
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
- When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
- It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
n.贮藏;积蓄;临时围墙;囤积v.积蓄并储藏(某物)( hoard的现在分词 )
- After the war, they were shot for hoarding. 战后他们因囤积而被枪决。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Actually he had two unused ones which he was hoarding up. 其实他还藏了两片没有用呢。 来自英汉文学
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