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
action for alienation of affections
aforce
ao dais
armchair psychology
automatic micropipettor
balladmongers
batule
berberastine
blood-letting
bloom of lubricating oil
bull-fighting
bunny hop
cargo ship safety radiotelegraph certificate
chalcosite (chalcocite)
cholelithophone
codesets
compendage
compensation strategy
complex series permeability
corrosion inhibition addition tank
Cox's theorem
crevasse crack
d'oyly
dali ginseng
dead yarn
delivery of intervention
disk barley separator
economy-wide
elastic discontinuity
enwrap in
epithecial
eye-beaming
form-drag
freeport-mcmorans
frustrated internal reflectance
Gamboula
Giro transaction
haplodont teeth
hema-
high resolution method
hour angle-declination axis mount
Hwangguto
hymenal atresia
initial field
isobilithe
isoclines
junctional premature beat
lend the shelter of one's name and position to sb.
lig. patell?
low-current digital circuit
major calyx (pl.calyces)
measurement in education movement
micro-breweries
mimetic isomorphism
mimic mutant
minimum-access routine
Mokran(Makran)
montjuiches
non-embolic
noun-noun
obliviance
oil-industry analysts
path finding
pcsi
percent isogram of single mineral
phenolic alcohols
pick ... up on
plagiocephaly
pneumatic transducing element
Pokomo
primary input table
primer setback
principal meridian
pyr
queen whim's court dances (mediaeval france)
radio-labeled
rating units
russia duck
sandliver
Saudafjorden
saw sheath
serotonergic neuron
show business
side wall
siphone barograph
smoothing machine
snapweed
store brand
sunghir
sunshine duration recorder
swing hand
system software types
Tartinian
tchadiennes
the NAR
traisman
travoy
unregretfully
unsuitableness
upper atmosphere research satellite
Urtica ardens
venezuelans