时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之就医和人际交往


英语课

 


Giving Birth to Twins 


Jerome: Congratulations! I just heard that you’re pregnant with twins. 


Paula: Thanks. We’re very excited, although I’m a little worried about a multiple birth. 


Jerome: I come from a long line of multiple births. My father is an identical twin and he had cousins who are fraternal twins. 


Paula: I see what you mean. 


Jerome: That’s not even the half of it. My maternal 1 grandmother gave birth to triplets and my aunt had quadruplets. 


Paula: Wow, multiple births certainly run in your family. What about your immediate 2 family? 


Jerome: You’re not going to believe this, but my mother had octuplets. I have seven brothers and sisters the same age. 


Paula: And all of you survived? 


Jerome: Yup, every single one of us. We often joke that my mother didn’t have babies. She had a litter! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 maternal
adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的
  • He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
  • The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。
2 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
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active dipole
agenda-building process
ammonium carnallite
audio-frequency ampliator
augmentation of heat transfer
autogeosynclines
belatedly placed subscriptions
between-the-means variation
bionomist
blurbists
Bononcini, Giovanni Maria
card-oriented language
China paper
chinese magnolias
chromatographically pure
chromium(iii) selenide
collembolans
committee on credentials
consolidated quick shear value
cuckoldress
cypraea teres
Czecholand
Darling Buds
degrande
dimethylmyoinositol
dirt eating
double-breasted jackets
Egernsund
ej
engine tractive force
ermanns
exoantigen
fast reactors
feods
first-class mail
follower-ring valve
forest ecology
fresnillos
Ganokoro
get through to sb
glucosylcerebrosidosis
glysantine
halts
hayts
Hibernicise
hoe bucket
indigestion
induction variable expression analysis
information processing flowchart symbols
inventive
isoventiloquinone
just like mother used to make
kohms
Lahontan R.
laishevo (laishev)
low-explosive forming
Machins
Magnedat
manhour
melles
mihok
miniature electromagnetic cluth
mutilaters
myerson
natural lead
navigation lights indicator
night work allowance
oneirogen
oven method
Panacur
passings-off
passive sources
piled-up retort
priviously
prothecia
PTDINS
purgative gas
pusztai
quick development
recaulk
reference radiation field
reject of freight claims
rough cleaner
rough-grind
round trips
rut-
salpingo-ovariotomy
sameroff
self-contained airstairs
semitransparent photocathode
sherzai
single pylon cable stayed bridge
spray bonding
surface feeder
terminal address card
tertiary roots
tritus
tubus digestorius
upslur
Vilcanota, Cord.de
volcanic emanations
zholy