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
acerate leaves
adding network
address precise interruption
African National Congress
Aggeneys
air expeditionary force
akker
antarctic region
Antônia, Pico da
arrcs
arteria lienaliss
assault crossing
auratus
auto starter
biotical
brush-contact loss
Buchingham
capacitance oscillator
checkoway
chelid
Clapham Junction
compact edema
complementay transistors
component superconducting magnetometer
condry
convertible engine
cost of idle time
Cross City
Davidson's reflex
dermolipoma of conjunctiva
differencial phase shift keying
drift space
Echinodiscus
end of number
euclimacia badia
evaporative cooling
external oblique reflex
fire-proofed
Fluorodexamethasone
glicks
gonorrheal vulvovaginitis
grossoes
heat treat crack
herbert kitcheners
hidden refresh logic
in contrast
insert exhaust valve
integral planter
isolated danger
kars
leading-in
light-off
low-frequency spectrum
madville
maggotiness
manual signal box
market station
matagalpa
microassociative
Natron, L.
neurosemantics
nortrachelogenin
nuttall oaks
overabsorption
plate mechanics
Port-d'Envaux
pre-jazz
reaser
receive-dialler
remove seedling from one bed to another
rheobasic
Rhinosporidium seeberi
right-handed polarized light
saintlike
scfg
schistosome cercarial dermatitis
shipping lock
short primary LEM
showing
Shuqualak
shutting off
signing ap
slagger
stat-
steam electric power plant
stern hook
stream nucleus
substantia cinerea
switch cylinder
tin soldiers
tool management
trans-sexual
tuchun
Tutcheria pingpienensis
vividness
vulvar canal
Wash.
waste-disposal system
well timed
wet-
yen wu
zero-year-old