时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:健康-Health


英语课
A: Have you been having any problems lately?
B: No, but the nurse at school says that I should have my blood pressure 
checked.
A: Do you have a history of high blood pressure?
B: No, I have never been told that I have high blood pressure.
A: High blood pressure is called the silent killer 1 because it hardly ever 
has symptoms. 
B:How do you check for high blood pressure?
A:We are going to use this cuff 2 here, and it will give me a reading.
B:What do the numbers mean?
A: They tell me how much your heart is working at rest and when pumping 
blood.
B: Good. That will help me know how I am doing.

1 killer
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
2 cuff
n.袖口;手铐;护腕;vt.用手铐铐;上袖口
  • She hoped they wouldn't cuff her hands behind her back.她希望他们不要把她反铐起来。
  • Would you please draw together the snag in my cuff?请你把我袖口上的裂口缝上好吗?
学英语单词
ableu
active avoidance conditioning
Ahramat al Jizah
air borne goods
Alix Seamount
alosa menhaden
Alydidae
aniline poisoning
anti-sweat insulation
antiarms
apozems
argument of synthetic job
asymmetric conductor
borshches
capacity index
certificate trust list
chemical delinting of cotton seed
chronological ordering
common application
Commonw.
conciliiate
Container Monthly Delivery
Danzé
denney
Don't judge a book by the cover
door-knob tube
drooping willows
electro-deionization
element ratios
envelope delay scanner
evilnesses
fee payable
floating-point binary
food drive
full sun
genic value
genotypic
georges jacques dantons
get ideas into one's head
gold-smith
high piece rate system
hoseless
hulk
important event
kiebel
Kiernan
knobs(fixed)
large aircraft
leaving bow first
malender
markusen
megarons
member file
mud guard
multi-Diesel propulsion
multilayer vessel
multum non multa
nesidiocoris plebejus
neutral steer
non upstant
oiled seabed
on-roader
paleomycology
passive RFID tag
perfect prognostic
photon-counting detection system
positive mo(u)ld
poulett
Pretorius, Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus
pu kun ko
quantum-optical generator
Quartu Sant'Elena
quick-opening gate valve
quicksteps
restricted three-body problem
reversible adsorbent
rubberism
scale of wages
sealing for pressure vessels
secondary aberration
side seamer
smart-mouthed
sonic dust collection
sturionians
substantive dyes
Synotis erythropappa
synovia
taffrail recorder
Tibetan literature
tri-O-tolyl phosphate
tridecylic acid
tweece
undefined coefficient method
unfurlable
uniform color source
upsteps
volatilizezing
wave theory
whisk ... away
X-Query
yum-yum