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
acoustical reduction coefficient
aircraft accessary
arabic system of notation
astronomic(al) station
atactic
atmospheric argon
attention-grabbings
Atwick
augmenting factor
autonomous robots
back-fence
bamboo forest
Belyuen
bencianol
bioyield stress
brainreserve
capillary active
chronic berylliosis
Chërnyy Lukh
clans
closed-circuit televisions
compressed-iron powder core
constant cyclic code
cyclic access
DCPD
dish developing
double control switch
dougla
downstream section
dystric fluvisols
erosion pavement
first law of system engineering
friendsomeness
fused spray deposit
Gapa
grand pianoes
grow old
HEAC (High Energy Advisory Committee)
high graphics
high-achievers
indicator -regulator
influence peddlers
inhidden
italian vermouths
JLOC
Jnr
ketter
Listera taizanensis
manipulation program
mantini
manual toll switchboard
membrane separation efficiency
ministry of press and propaganda
mithrass
molasses tank
ncr form
near-mesh particle
noematical
noil cloth
noise-air-pollution
nonbridging contact
null fill in
open end investment company
outwash facies
Pachystoma pubescens
papelera
Penicullium viridicatum
pipe standards
polypodocyte
promptbook
propeller slip
quartz doreite
rank test
resolution of identity
retiled
retreated
scalpel
self-actor
sentimentalising
Shāhāna
smoothness index
solid-state martensite
squammer
stafffloat
suntanned
tank cleaning barge
tension plate
thinking more
toeless
trigoneutic
two-factor theory of motivation
unaccursed
unpaired thyroid venous plexus
unpredictability
unreefed
unused heat
vimont
world-old
yarb
zibotentan