时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之就医和人际交往


英语课

 


Taking Prescription 1 Drugs 


Paula: Okay, I’m off to bed. 


Marcus: Wait a second. Where are you going with all of those pill bottles? 


Paula: My doctor prescribed a couple of medications to help me sleep. 


Marcus: Let me see those. You have four different medications here. This is a painkiller 2, this is a sedative 3, this is a tranquilizer, and this is a stimulant 4


Paula: I don’t take that last one when I go to bed. 


Marcus: You mean you take the first three every night? 


Paula: Not every night. 


Marcus: I can’t believe that your doctor would prescribe all three of these medications just to help you sleep. This seems like overkill. 


Paula: I saw more than one doctor. They each gave me a different prescription. 


Marcus: How do you know they won’t interact and produce side effects? 


Paula: A doctor prescribed each one. I’m sure they’re safe. 


Marcus: Yes, but does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? I’m confiscating 5 these until you can talk to a doctor or pharmacist to make sure you won’t overdose by taking all three of these at one time. 


Paula: But how will I fall asleep until then? 


Marcus: You’re always telling me how boring I am. I’ll just regale 6 you with stories of my youth. Let’s start at the beginning. My earliest memory is... 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 prescription
n.处方,开药;指示,规定
  • The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
  • The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
2 painkiller
n.止痛药
  • I shall persuade him to take the painkiller.我将说服他把药吃下去。
  • The painkiller only provides him a short respite from his pain.止痛药仅仅让他在疼痛中有短暂的疏解。
3 sedative
adj.使安静的,使镇静的;n. 镇静剂,能使安静的东西
  • After taking a sedative she was able to get to sleep.服用了镇静剂后,她能够入睡了。
  • Amber bath oil has a sedative effect.琥珀沐浴油有镇静安神效用。
4 stimulant
n.刺激物,兴奋剂
  • It is used in medicine for its stimulant quality.由于它有兴奋剂的特性而被应用于医学。
  • Musk is used for perfume and stimulant.麝香可以用作香料和兴奋剂。
5 confiscating
没收(confiscate的现在分词形式)
  • There was Mame by my side confiscating my intellects and attention. 有玛米坐在我身边,害得我心不在焉。
  • Intimidate book sellers by confiscating books deemed unfavourable to the Barisan government. 充公被视为对国阵不利的书籍,威胁书商。
6 regale
v.取悦,款待
  • He was constantly regaled with tales of woe.别人老是给他讲些倒霉事儿来逗他开心。
  • He loved to regale his friends with tales about the many memorable characters he had known as a newspaperman.他喜欢讲些他当记者时认识的许多名人的故事给朋友们消遣。
学英语单词
agriculture environmental protection
ampulla of deferent duct
analog translator
Anaya de Alba
Andre-Venner accumulator
anemophobes
antiexperimentalism
apaxifylline
archostegnosis
assubtiliate
ballclubs
Bay Saint Louis
bengalenses
black wrack
bristolians
calculation of PN db
caprioling
carbohydrate isomerase
cherry-poppers
cold working steel
colpo-ureterotomy
compressive rigidity
cook food
counter-proposal
cronulla
crossconnected
cut-and-fill
cutis leukemia
de facto adoption
derrick pendant
disseminated values
Drolshagen
enabling environment
epimerite
essentialized
ex-urbanites
fall-blooming hydrangeas
ferrioxalate
field houses
fur(fur)aldehyde
giltwoods
glacial outwash
Gran Escorial
gratulance
grunsels
Guadalupe Hidalgo
gumbo limbos
hand calculator
harbour fireboat
hseq
hyperfluid
hypoleukemia
hypothalamic hypophysiotropic releasing factor
interfilar mass
isolit
Kittsee
linear addressing architecture
Macrocomidium
major-minor sorting
mechanomorphosis
methanococci
muricatin
NCCF
northern hawk owls
nucleolar fibrous core
oesophageal notch
Oshuko
oven-fry
p-Hydroxyphenylethanolamine
pars anterior hypophyseos
passive sonar detection
patella
patrolatry
Percent difference
planula
pole cap
poultry producer
precision fractional distillation
presentation service command processor
roll station
scalp sb for a jay
serial shared resource
silver hydrogen ferrite
smooth-running
sneak
solvophobic interaction
Sonobe
sort by type
spring-loadeds
staggered piling
stagonospora cryptomeriae sawada
statement heading
tentler
timberyard
to tell the time
tomtates
tribochet
turbine shaft axial displacement protection
Turquino, Pico
waterproof paper
weens
world-man