【跟着英剧练发音】Downton abby S01
时间：2019-01-21 作者：英语课 分类：跟着英剧练发音
英语课
-When you made your offer, I thought you might be a great lady nurse and faint at the sight of blood, but I see you're made of sterner stuff.
-It's definitely the heart. It's almost too quiet to hear at all.
-I'm afraid so.
-I've been thinking about the treatments that are available. Considerable success has been achieved over the last few years by draining the pericardial sac of the excess fluid and administering adrenaline.
-Mrs. Crawley, I appreciate your thoroughness.
-But you're unwilling 1 to try it?
-Injection of adrenaline is a comparatively new procedure.
-It's a while ago now, but I saw my husband do it. I know how.
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-Please, Mrs Crawley, don't-- don't force me to be uncivil. We would be setting an impossible precedent 2 when every villager could--could demand the latest fad 3 in treatment for each new cut and graze.
-I would remind you that we're not talking of a cut or a graze, but the loss of a man's life and the ruin of his family.
-Of course, but I beg you to see that it is not reasonable.
adj.不情愿的
- The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
- His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。
n.先例，前例；惯例；adj.在前的，在先的
- Is there a precedent for what you want me to do?你要我做的事有前例可援吗？
- This is a wonderful achievement without precedent in Chinese history.这是中国历史上亘古未有的奇绩。