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
2-(4'-morpholinodithio)-benzothiazole
Aberdeen terriers
AHES
all interests
Anthophyllite-asbestos
ashcan
atrolactamide
bats an eye
bioelectrical integrator
caeruleus
carbunule on scapular area
clearwell
coffs
cogradient matrix
counseller
countach
cutting logging
density fluids
destructive plate margin
detect idle time
different in a thousand and one ways
Dingalan B.
dioxygenase
doppler correction
double electric conductor seal
electromagnetic cam group
electroneutrqlity principle
Empire of the West
enanthema
engine synchroscope
Eupheterochlorina
flosser
free piercing
gastro-
graphical integral
Groszowiec
hardness ratio
hemicraniectomy
hot rolled steel
human agancy
index of import volume
inflectional ending
internal phasing
invisible stock
iron lead matte
Kodaira
loadsa
macebearers
map direction
methoxyaspidofractinine
Miss Nancy
monstered
motorjets
mousse
multiday
multiforous
multiple microprocessor system
N-ethylpyrrole
Namkyo
non-ionogenic linkage
non-productive thinning
nonmetallic sheathed cable
nonrecurrent apomixis
nothing to write home about
output file collation control
pagehood
peterbaylissite
place-brick
Polaris
polite behaviour
polymethyl aromatic
porcelain paper
projection screen
reduce weight
reflection efficiency
resmooth
rip one
ruds
sandification
sentence length
separation manoeuver
Siderocalcite
sleeveful
solely
spanner double ends
standard instruction memonic
structural skin panel
surface scratch
testing with Seleroscope
the female sex
thematic overprint
thickness by reflection
trading service product
travelling down tilter
trendoids
Tridin
tubular magnet
uncommon
up convert
variable argument
welken
x-ray diffraction powder camera