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
account payable to superior
anaerobic cultivation
analog streamer
angustatus
Anna mollifolia
antipodeal
Antweiler
awkwardnessful
bandar-e charak
biquartz wedge plate
bite in
black musics
bodycon
chromatographic packing
Clintonia andrewsiana
coded-decimal representation
cold water algae
construction policy
cultural and educational area
Cultural Revolution
cylindrical closed ended crucible
cyrto-
debatable
decahydronaphthalenes
definite intent
depth of overburden
descendences
doctrine of consistancy
Doppler laser radar
down coiler
Durannies
ejaculatorium
electoral boundary
environmental impact report
exclusion word dictionary
fat choy
fluid in cell method
foreign-born
glutamyl cystcine
Golodomor
Hadamard's evaluation
half-birthdays
heavily doped crystal
helfand
HEPAT
hinrichsen
improficiency
in the trenches
induced cooling tower
katathermal
kirk-session
Kritzendorf
Kwangmyong
line deletion
link downward
Los Gatos
mackadocious
made something
magnetic grating
magnetic sub-band
Maksatikhinskiy Rayon
menthol valerate
metam-sodium
microcirculation
miter-joint
mussey
Natural gas marketed production
newbould
object complements
occupational name
patent licensing
peristomes
permissible acrobatic
Ptychococcus
pushout
quinaldine blue
Reiter syndrome
Rhodan value
rocker-box
room attendant
sawbones
scintillascope
self-annihilated
shaft sinking machine
shape function
sociotechnical design
splice junction
stethalgia
sulphoximide
sweet course
synctime
thirtytwomos
toys with
tropical disturbance
us labor day
Veiros
villus synovialis
wholesaling
wild bean
with good intent
yard-long bean
zero-sequence component