时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文小故事


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Benjamin was sick. He didn't know how he got sick. He was feverish 1 and tired. He had no appetite. His stomach hurt more often than not. At first he shrugged 2 off the symptoms, figuring he had picked up a bug 3 that would go away in a week or so. But it didn't. It lingered. After three weeks, he dragged himself to Dr. Barkley.


The doctor did a few tests. Then he asked Benjamin if he had gone camping and drunk unsterilized stream water. Benjamin said he hadn't been camping since he had played soldier in the army.


He asked if Benjamin had eaten at any fast food restaurants in the past month, or eaten from one of the many lunch trucks in the Los Angeles area. Benjamin said that he ate fast food or lunch truck food every day at noon.


“That’s probably the source of your illness. You have hepatitis A, and you most likely got it from a food worker who didn't wash his hands thoroughly 4 after using the bathroom. It happens a lot.” “Holy cow! I'm not going to die, am I?”


The doctor told him not to worry. A viral infection that attacks the liver, hepatitis A kills only about 100 people annually 5 in the US. He told Benjamin to see him every two weeks, and to be prepared to take up to three months off from work so that he could rest, rest, rest. There is no cure for hepatitis A. You survive, or you don’t.


“But there is one good thing about hepatitis A,” Dr. Barkley said. “Once you get it, you’re immune to it for the rest of your life.”


 



1 feverish
adj.发烧的,狂热的,兴奋的
  • He is too feverish to rest.他兴奋得安静不下来。
  • They worked with feverish haste to finish the job.为了完成此事他们以狂热的速度工作着。
2 shrugged
vt.耸肩(shrug的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • Sam shrugged and said nothing. 萨姆耸耸肩膀,什么也没说。
  • She shrugged, feigning nonchalance. 她耸耸肩,装出一副无所谓的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 bug
n.虫子;故障;窃听器;vt.纠缠;装窃听器
  • There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
  • The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。
4 thoroughly
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
5 annually
adv.一年一次,每年
  • Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
  • They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
学英语单词
all-out effort
ammonia cooler
ampa
appointed member
Arouet
aseptic myocarditis of newborn
assquake
atomweight
bacchanalias
Ban Hai
be roses all the way
Beaujeu
blessed with
Buronzo
canalis carpalis
capsule assembly
Carex wawuensis
cigar-shaped
ciliopagurus strigatus
classification of waste
closing to meeting maneuver
court of common pleas
crossey
crowd-control
cuttlebones
cystosarcoma
degenerative myopia
diatectite
Diebougou
drum magnetic separator
duplex output
eliminate unemployment
empiric(al)
epilating forceps
fermiophobic
fine struction
flash one's eyes at
formate butyl
French Standard
game fishes
genus cairinas
geological structure
HDMI CEC
hearth plate
honours degree
idiolysin
idiopathic detrusor dyssynergia
imperia
inkfish
insatisfactorily
jus pascendi
keyword item
laser printers
man-machine interaction equipment
maximum bit rate
mistion
more replenishing soil moisture reserve
motion planning
motion-pictures
Nal detector
Nervus medianus
non-exclusion
non-linear molecule
nonulcerated
nyy
okwui
open end V-belt
passets
Phichit, Changwat
pick up and delivery service
pinch-faced
polygonometric network
prima donnas
quality bonus
radiation gasdynamics
reexhumation
replacement length
rubber paint
sadhanas
scissor-tailed
seen eye to eye
signal bridge
single-state recycle
slotted screen
snowmobiles
spam act
Spittal of Glenshee
spring of cylinder lubricator plunger
strip-searches
sudden cough
sufflations
supersonic particle sizer
surface of constant pressure
talipes calcaneus
termination and suspersion of contract
theory mapping
unsanctimonious
urnsful
user program status display
webtalk
wtb
xenotime