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
alconomye
arbitrage pricing theories
automatic epilepsy
barim (perim i.)
batch-wise operation
bullet perforating gun
businessman's investment
cable plow
cavity filling
Cecrops
central readjustment
centrifugal disk atomizer
characteristic of summer-heat being ascending and dispersive
cob-nut
cock-smooches
cold damage
concentrically wound coil
connected digit recognition
contact material
contagious limit theorem
corbeled
Dante chair
Duru
dyces
eczema disability index
empty vehicle
exercise more
fenderbeam
filing a claim for recovery
film pump
four-address to soap translator (fast)
free flight angle
free-water elevation
French Indochina
gaseous nebulas
glade fern
ground radar
Hai Thanh
handwavy
Health and Sanitary Regulation
heave velocity
Hemme
Houyhnhnm
interactive instruction system
jig-adjusted
kiack
local automatically operated unit
managerialdata
medium carbon steel wire
mistletoe thrush
miter ga(u)ge
mode of financing
moon's nodes
multiple copies
Nell Gwynne
osteogenetic
Papez
periarteitis
periodontal dressing paste
pick corners
pine looper moth
pitch-perfect
plated finish
Poa polycolea
pool rectifier tube
put a spoke in someone's wheel
radioimmunoconjugates
RD
reivers
relinquishers
remember the waiter
resistron
rimmel
rocking-contact voltage regulator
sanidine nephelinite
semi-box beam
separate subprogram definition
sevenight
sight reduction
simeen
sliding-vane motor
social atmosphere
spirit master
spooled instruction
steering gear worm thrust bearing
stereographically
stress space
suprasegment
system expandability
termination of adventure clause
tertries
tetragon
thirtypenny
triple venturi
trust corporations
understream
unipersonal verb
until today
virtual register
waspam
waxing moon
westmead