SSS 2008-07-28
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(七)月
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Psych. I'm Christine Nicholson, got a minute?
Actor Heath Ledger's untimely death on January 22, 2008, shocked us—and we are eerily 1 reminded of it as we watch him twitch 2 and quiver as the fey Joker in the current Batman movie, The Dark Knight 3. Perhaps Ledger's death, due to an accidental prescription 4 overdose, hit the world as tragic 5 because most of us can imagine ourselves falling prey 6 to a similar accident. A study in July 28th issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine examines nearly 200,000 U.S. deaths due to medication errors from 1983 to 2004. The researchers specifically compared medicinal mix-ups at home versus 7 those in a clinical setting. Apparently 8, home deaths due to taking meds with alcohol and/or street drugs shot up more than 3,000 percent in those two decades. Whereas, fatal errors out of home, and unrelated to any additional alcohol, only rose five percent. Accidental errors at home that didn't include any alcohol or street drugs rose pretty substantially too, more than 560 percent. You know, to be sure, people may be taking more prescriptive meds than they did in the 1980s and they are increasingly taken those meds at home. So is this hazard an acceptable by-product 9 of the convenience of modern life? Or is it a problem that may worsen as more meds become available to homebound patients?
Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Psych. I'm Christine Nicholson.
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- It was nearly mid-night and eerily dark all around her. 夜深了，到处是一片黑黝黝的怪影。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
- The vast volcanic slope was eerily reminiscent of a lunar landscape. 开阔的火山坡让人心生怪异地联想起月球的地貌。 来自辞典例句
- The smell made my dog's nose twitch.那股气味使我的狗的鼻子抽动着。
- I felt a twitch at my sleeve.我觉得有人扯了一下我的袖子。
- He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
- A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。
- The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
- The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
- The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
- Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
- Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
- The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
- The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
- The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.自由是经济盈余的副产品。
- The raw material for the tyre is a by-product of petrol refining.制造轮胎的原材料是提炼汽油时产生的一种副产品。
- She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
- He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。