时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:15.84]Late Night Emergency
[00:31.55]深夜急诊
[00:41.58]About 25 years ago,
[00:43.53]I worked as an orderly on the overnight shift
[00:47.21]in a South Carolina hospital to put myself through school.
[00:52.41]The building we were in at the time
[00:55.18]was one of those WPA jobs from the Roosevelt era,
[01:00.28]and even though it was small and somewhat outmoded,
[01:04.88]it had been the only place for emergency services
[01:08.80]in our county for more than 40 years.
[01:12.78]But at the time this incident I'm writing about happened,
[01:16.81]a new, state-of-the-art hospital
[01:20.05]had just been finished a few miles down the highway,
[01:24.36]and while we weren't completely out of the picture,
[01:27.57]a lot of our services, including the emergency room,
[01:31.95]had been shifted to that site.
[01:35.25]Like I say, I was working my way through school at the time,
[01:40.25]and my shift generally ran weeknights
[01:44.40]from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
[01:47.14]There wasn't a whole lot to do after midnight,
[01:50.86]so sometimes after the shift supervisor
[01:53.95]had run out of creative ideas for make-work,
[01:57.68]and assuming our remaining patients were quiet
[02:01.56]and settled in for the night,
[02:04.34]she'd let me "relax" with my schoolwork
[02:07.03]in the employee lounge during the quiet of the wee hours.
[02:11.95]The lounge was right next to the second floor nurses' station.
[02:27.13]讲解
[03:54.39]语言点
[03:58.10]orderly  护理员
[04:02.99]overnight
[04:07.18]shift  轮班、工作时间的班次
[04:12.53]overnight shift  夜班
[04:16.52]Put someone through school, college or university.
[04:24.17]She's putting herself through college.
[04:30.28]work one's way through school  勤工俭学
[04:35.49]WPA = Works Progress Administration
[04:40.49]Works Projects Administration  美国公共事业振兴署
[04:47.42]somewhat  有点儿、稍微
[04:53.13]service
[05:01.01]medical services  医疗服务
[05:04.67]emergency services  急救服务
[05:08.70]state of the art  最新型的、最优良的
[05:16.86]down  沿着
[05:20.90]down the highway
[05:24.71]while  虽然、而
[05:31.36]although / though
[05:34.89]He went out, while I stayed at home.
[05:42.91]and while
[05:46.36]while
[05:49.80]out of the picture
[05:56.45]In discussing the question,
[05:58.50]we shouldn't keep this point out of the picture.
[06:06.67]weeknights
[06:22.52]My shift generally ran weeknights
[06:25.21]from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
[06:33.95]a whole lot  许多
[06:37.73]somebody run out of something
[06:43.21]make-work
[06:53.38]settle someone in
[07:00.99]relax with something
[07:06.21]After work she relaxed with a cup of tea and the newspaper.
[07:16.02]lounge  休息室
[07:20.43]employee lounge  员工休息室
[07:24.26]quiet  寂静、静谧
[07:28.53]wee
[07:35.05]a wee drop of wine
[07:39.08]a wee bit tedious
[07:42.64]wee
[07:45.21]the wee hours
[08:03.76]About 25 years ago,
[08:05.64]I worked as an orderly on the overnight shift
[08:09.49]in a South Carolina hospital to put myself through school.
[08:14.37]The building we were in at the time
[08:17.59]was one of those WPA jobs from the Roosevelt era,
[08:22.37]and even though it was small and somewhat outmoded,
[08:27.17]it had been the only place for emergency services
[08:31.01]in our county for more than 40 years.
[08:35.11]But at the time this incident I'm writing about happened,
[08:38.99]a new, state-of-the-art hospital
[08:42.26]had just been finished a few miles down the highway,
[08:46.66]and while we weren't completely out of the picture,
[08:49.84]a lot of our services, including the emergency room,
[08:54.11]had been shifted to that site.
[08:57.60]Like I say, I was working my way through school at the time,
[09:02.55]and my shift generally ran weeknights
[09:06.61]from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
[09:09.63]There wasn't a whole lot to do after midnight,
[09:13.12]so sometimes after the shift supervisor
[09:16.42]had run out of creative ideas for make-work,
[09:20.16]and assuming our remaining patients were quiet
[09:23.99]and settled in for the night,
[09:26.60]she'd let me "relax" with my schoolwork
[09:29.46]in the employee lounge during the quiet of the wee hours.
[09:34.22]The lounge was right next to the second floor nurses' station.
[09:45.38]谢谢收听