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
abrachial fetus
Abrosovo
acceptilations
adipositas cardia
allowable resources
altamira
ambulance party
annex
antichrist
basifixed anther
Berenice IV
bomohs
BPAG
brava
bubble-baths
budgetary requirement
bursters
clists
cocoplums
come Yorkshire over someone
contact symbol
copying drawing
cret-
cyclconic circulation
dentialveolar
differential scattering cross-section
directivity index of microphone
disk body
drafting iffice
dunkleosteid
earlids
edge retention
electrocaloric effect
elevation planning
esurients
fencepoles
fire-heating air pressure
foreign ministers
fractional exponent
friction member
fund audit
generation tree
GFWC
glaucous
goldarn
gwynfors
hat brush
hyalophanes
Indri indri
jib guy
jnopamil
Khilgaon
lead sb. by the nose
Leitrim
light liquor
loggery
meagry
motivational exhaustion
moyock
mozeliak
mujtabas
Muller's Fluid
multi-use hatchet
multigigabyte
muskhogean languages
neck curl
nonmetal material testing machine
off-line algorithm
officier
once-prosperous
optoelectronic digital logic
ordinary ammunition stowage
panadapter
pantisocratic
physeterids
pilot truss
pleurothecium recurvatum
polythematic
qsub
radioisotope level gage
re-presents
SCTD
sequential processing of multiple job
series reactor starting
service blister
signors
single-end amplification
situation board
sophists
Standard and Poor's Rating
straight laced
strata germinativum epidermidis
stretching pliers
talip
tansy-leaved rockets
Testacida
travelling field
unenjoyability
unhardiness
with gusto
work-shops
Xaghra