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
aguiler
air tanker
anti-independence
antisignaling
available labour time
axis of perspective
bialtitudes
Cia-Cia
coasterly
code generator data
colpomicroscope
combustible gas detector
conical side milling cutter
cosine amplitude
Culver's physic
cupulometer
cyclosa octotuberculata
Deep Cove
desolvente
direct distance surveying
disturbance climax
druben
E center
earth-horn
Eastwood,Clint
end-bound ligand
epitaxial polycrystalline film
Ethylemin
feel your age
forage crusher
forced passage
free-space path loss.
gyrojet
have sb. in one's pocket
heavy rare earths
hen-party
Henry Steinway
hopane type
incorruptibility
interception storage
kimora-lee-simmons
lateral column (or lateral funiculus)
Leptospira biflexa
linear semilogarithmic trend line
loading accident
macrocephalum
Manduca quinquemaculata
maximum vibration
Mollugo cerviana
multi loop mechanism
neckear obtusata (l.) hedw
nickel bournonite
nontraumatic rupture of tendon
nonvertex
norfenfluramine
norma inferior
not have a pot to piss in
nozzle-blade
overreachings
paraffinic
pauci-
pay one's respects
periaxial
photochromic microfilm
piece work wage
porosity total
port-grave
proportional recording
proselytutes
pyxine sorediata
Quintillus
ramjet duct
retardation coil
ripple in output
ruben reaction
S trap
set ... aside
shogo
sign off
single-use plans
slow-growth
softworks
strontium nitrate
sulcus limitans ventriculorum
switchroom
system of calibration
tartars
time expansion chamber
to ratch
tomming down
touch-lines
transonic thermal blooming
transversal strain
triple-valve
tursion
Ulfila
uni-solar
unreclining
variable-phase signal
waterlogging tolerant crop
Wujing
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