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
ACE (automatic computing equipment)
actual transformation ratio of current transformer
Adams rule
additional wall layer
alpha assay
Ameiurus
angioneuropathic
antiheretical
antispatial
aurhorized mortgage bonds
automatic navigator
azidoacridine
be indebted to
bellyachings
beteem
bronze casting
bulla
chance variable
closing-times
coil-moving speaker
coleseeds
color versatile copier
configuration management planning
crab machine
cutting resistance detection system
dripstone
drosophila (drosophila) hoozani
enterocoelic cavity
ethyl phenolate (phenetole)
flat coarse file
foodyolk
fried pork liver soft
genus liatriss
geometrises
gold export point
gravel ballast
hammered granolithic finish
Harmonites
heavy-bearded
Held-to-Maturity Securities
hunting seat
identity management
idiomorphically
IG drum
Iganga
iiips
immunoproteasomes
inches-by-inches
internal sphincter muscle of anus
IVUE
landwind
law of linkage and exchange
life rent
litter cleaning
lognormal
mbas
means of expression
Meliosma bifida
mice and men
microsociolinguistic
mist net
munishon
NewSQL
nodilittorina radiata
numbness of extremities due to blood deficiency
Olympos, Oros
Panamanian flag
Peachland
pit road
pneumatic delivery box
post-transfusion hepatitis
Pristimera indica
program-exit hub
raspberry juice
ravi r.
refractivenesses
Rhipidodesmis caespitosa
run-time object
sarda can.
self-blame
soregasm
stabilizing tail
stiffness control
stokan
subministered
successive reaction
suspension laryngoscope
Swertia randaiensis
theoretical oxygen demand
tight riveting
tipping tray conveyer
title-game
triphragmium ulmariae
tro-tro
typothetae
us land
Ussurites
velocity power spectral density
vertical boring and turning machine
voltage dependent current gain
wottons-under-edge
yule-walker equations