时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2013年(一月)


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Clinton Recovering From Blood Clot 1 In Her Head



Charles Eyler knows all about blood clots 2. He’s had two. “They’re painful, I mean really painful. Really bad pain,” Eyler said.


And now, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has her second blood clot. 


The first, in her leg, occurred during travel as First Lady fourteen years ago. Then Sunday, the diagnosis 3 of a new clot -- this one in her head.


Most blood clots occur in the leg. They can be fatal if the clot dislodges and moves to the lung, where it blocks blood flow and strains the heart.


But Clinton’s doctors say her blood clot was found in a vein 4 “between the brain and the skull 5, behind her right ear.” 


“Blood pools and it doesn’t flow. Blood that doesn’t flow clots. That’s a good thing when it’s outside the blood vessels 6. Not a good thing when it’s inside the blood vessels,” said Dr. Ben Wedro, who works in a Wisconsin trauma 7 center.


Clinton was admitted to a New York Hospital Sunday. She’s on blood thinners to dissolve the clot so it does not cause a stroke or neurological damage.


Eyler's doctor, John Ricotta, chairs vascular 8 surgery at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. He says Clinton's extended hospital stay is not unusual.


“They want to be sure they don’t overshoot or undershoot, and they want to be sure that she is not going to suffer a bleeding complication while they are adjusting the dose,” Ricotta said.


Clinton is known as the most-traveled secretary of state in US history, flying more than 1 1/2 million kilometers to 112 different countries. But her December was difficult. 


Secretary Clinton was last seen in public in Belfast on December 7. She returned to the U.S. battling a severe stomach virus. A few days later, dehydrated, she fainted and suffered a concussion 9.


Clinton is winding 10 down as Secretary of State and deciding what her next political move might be. Whispers of a presidential run in 2016 could be temporarily silenced now, as doctors further assess her health. 




1 clot
n.凝块;v.使凝成块
  • Platelets are one of the components required to make blood clot.血小板是血液凝固的必须成分之一。
  • The patient's blood refused to clot.病人的血液无法凝结。
2 clots
n.凝块( clot的名词复数 );血块;蠢人;傻瓜v.凝固( clot的第三人称单数 )
  • When you cut yourself, blood clots and forms a scab. 你割破了,血会凝固、结痂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Milk clots when it turns sour. 奶变酸就凝块。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3 diagnosis
n.诊断,诊断结果,调查分析,判断
  • His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。
4 vein
n.血管,静脉;叶脉,纹理;情绪;vt.使成脉络
  • The girl is not in the vein for singing today.那女孩今天没有心情唱歌。
  • The doctor injects glucose into the patient's vein.医生把葡萄糖注射入病人的静脉。
5 skull
n.头骨;颅骨
  • The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
  • He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去,跌裂了颅骨。
6 vessels
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人
  • The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
7 trauma
n.外伤,精神创伤
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
8 vascular
adj.血管的,脉管的
  • The mechanism of this anomalous vascular response is unknown.此种不规则的血管反应的机制尚不清楚。
  • The vascular changes interfere with diffusion of nutrients from plasma into adjacent perivascular tissue and cells.这些血管变化干扰了营养物质从血浆中向血管周围邻接的组织和细胞扩散。
9 concussion
n.脑震荡;震动
  • He was carried off the field with slight concussion.他因轻微脑震荡给抬离了现场。
  • She suffers from brain concussion.她得了脑震荡。
10 winding
n.绕,缠,绕组,线圈
  • A winding lane led down towards the river.一条弯弯曲曲的小路通向河边。
  • The winding trail caused us to lose our orientation.迂回曲折的小道使我们迷失了方向。
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