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。
学英语单词
A batteries
accessory factor
acetylthiocholine
additive action
amidino-
anterior scrotal nerve
anther
beer pong
bicomponent yarn
bountied
bran duster
buchners
chain lift rod
challenge someone at his own weapon s
chrysso trimaculata
contract of charter agreement
copper-mine
counter-rolls
deiss
delusion of loss
disk hardness-gauge
do execution
DXF file
engine-room auxiliary machine
epoxy bushing
Eréké
Ethazanone
eurya japonica thunb. var. microphylla bl.
excess limitation on tax credit
exciters
extemporizers
ferrous metals industry
fore and afters
four flanged shutter
genus Meles
gesture-baseds
hanging rack
high temperature resistant gasket
human defensive tissue
humulith
ICI-180
ileus verminosus
inclusion-forming substance
industrial application
jeanies
Kibangula
knock against
Leochares
longshoreman's gang
lubrication fittings
luxuriousnesses
Many a pickle makes a mickle.
marcasine
mercurous citrate
methyl acrylic acid
mightyship
molle carcinoma
mollets
monbulk
multiple application
neomagma
non optional
non-biodegradable materials
orang
Oudh
Pangasinan
paper-chromatography
plane-table photogrammetry
plasma thromboplastin antecedents
possum oak
postheat temperature
presbyteress
probonal
proggers
prototropic rearrangement
quick anvil change equipment
restricted anchorage
reversing airway
Riegelsberg
rotor face recess
rumberger
running tapes
salk vaccines
Schiller-Christian disease
slugging average
snorest
solar probe spacecraft
strenuously
TADIL
teacher-trainers
to call
transversal curve
turret steamers
twangiest
twist setting
uniform label
unreasonable rules and regulation
waggon drill
water pump bushing packing
wind truss
yette
zero defect casting