时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2007年


英语课

Peter and Britt Poole have been happily married for a little over a year, despite Peter's snoring that so bad, he couldn't sleep at night and was tired all day.


You come home from work, you sleep, you get back to work. You know, that's not life, (Yeah) you know, for, for any of us.


Turns out, Peter, like maybe four percent of all middle-aged 1 men, according to sleep experts, suffers from obstructive sleep apnea. That's a narrowing of the airway 2 so tight as a sleep study video shows that you snore, eventually you stop breathing, and then your body shakes itself to reopen the airways 3.


I just thought I was supposed to be constantly tired. You know that's just nature, that's part of being an adult.


Three months ago, Peter's doctor gave him this high-tech 4 mask. It forces pressurized air through the mouth and nose, Peter says, greatly reducing his apnea.


......so I mean, it looks a bit Hannibal Lector, but it's actually really quite comfy…


Comfortable but not cheap. Peter's mask costs about 800 dollars and Britain's state-run health care system paid for it. Now the country's health watchdog says it may recommend that the national health care service foot the bill for these masks for the thousands of British snorers who need them.


That may generate flack from those who say the health service, constantly criticized for inefficiency 5, could better spend its public money. One of the country's top sleep experts disagrees.


You can have a hip 6 replacement 7 that's paid for by the NHS. This is a disease like any other. It can transform people's lives.


Peter and Britt Poole joke that the mask has transformed their life and saved their marriage. When Britt wants to make an apple pie now, Peter is awake enough to help in the kitchen instead of snoring on the couch. Alphonso Van Marsh CNN, London



1 middle-aged
adj.中年的
  • I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
  • The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。
2 airway
n.空中航线,通风口
  • Lay them on their side and ensure the airway is unobstructed.让他们侧躺着,并确保呼吸道畅通。
  • There is a purple airway in London Airport.伦敦机场里有一条皇家专用飞机跑道。
3 AIRWAYS
航空公司
  • The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
  • At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。
4 high-tech
adj.高科技的
  • The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展,这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
  • The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。
5 inefficiency
n.无效率,无能;无效率事例
  • Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace. 资方与工人之间的冲突使得工厂生产效率很低。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This type of inefficiency arises because workers and management are ill-equipped. 出现此种低效率是因为工人与管理层都能力不足。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 hip
n.臀部,髋;屋脊
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
7 replacement
n.取代,替换,交换;替代品,代用品
  • We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
  • They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。
学英语单词
a cross beam
abounder
all-daier
almost bounded function
astrapia
austenize
ball collar thrust bearing
band stop filter
bill free from claims or defences
bisno
bolometer amplifier
boned
capital repairs
catalogue of articles for sale
chaff jamming
channel scanner
Chediba
chemophobics
chronicle.com
Colocasia fallax
color distinction
compensatory polycythemia
conractual guarantee
constant boiling solution
CSP
definition of irrevocable control strategy
Dolj
drotaverine
ebullience
economic cooperation zone
ethnic-racial
exchange customs
extension screw
feed change gearbox
filling effect rib weave
fond memory
forward transadmittance
full speed turbine stages
gin slings
give cards and spades
graunt
gulps back
hair of head
hba
Hydrocotyle pseudoconferta
hydrological model
impregnative
Induan Stage
internal pin wheel
introduction of
iron-smeltings
isolationistic
isopropylmalonic acid
kagools
lay-
lockstepping
lord of war
lower sample
markup language
mean suns
motorized wheelchairs
negamiles
nucleole
optic-fiber links
os hyoideums
pad weld
parathelphusa sinensis
pentalenolactone
peripheral clearance angle
petchary
pipeline gauge
piroheptine
plant molecular biology
potassium-argons
power drive system
predestining
prenatal care
pyaemia septica
Ranzo
regulating port
Research Libraries Information Network
retroperitoneal pregnancy
roll-on roll-off ship
route of infection
screen sb out
sinical
snap (systems for nuclear auxilary power)
soapsuds
stibium sulfuratum aurantiacum
supercharge
synchronous changes
Torrinha
ultra-soft ray
untangle
vacuum spin-freezing
vatching
virtual waiting time
wainscoting, wainscotting
walk up to the trough, fodder or no fodder
wand exercise
weatherworthiness
Zudan