美语情景对话 第639期:Hospital Food 医院饮食
Todd: So, Barbara, we're talking about your time in the hospital. You were in the hospital for sometime. First of all, how long were you actually in the hospital?
托德：芭芭拉，我们来谈谈你在医院的生活。你住了一段时间的院。你住了多长时间的院？Barbara: Well, I was in two hospitals actually. At first, I was in a big hospital for three and a half weeks and I was on a drip for all of that time, and they didn't let me eat anything, and the first couple of days, they also didn't let me drink anything.
芭芭拉：嗯，其实我是在两家医院接受的治疗。一开始，我在一家大医院入院治疗了三周半，那段时间我一直在打点滴，他们不让我吃东西，前几天的时候医生甚至都不让我喝水。Todd: Whoa!
托德：哇！
Barbara: Yeah.
芭芭拉：对。Todd: So you were on a drip… I'm sorry, how long?
托德：抱歉，你打了多长时间的点滴？Barbara: Three and a half weeks.
芭芭拉：三周半。Todd: Whoa! No solid food for three and a half weeks.
托德：哇！三周半没有吃固体食物。Barbara: No food for three and a half weeks.
芭芭拉：三周半没有吃东西。Todd: Man!
托德：天哪！Barbara: Yeah, I was dreaming about my mother's cooking, and I was dreaming about roast chicken and roast lamb and man, the smells and the tastes came back to me, but there was no food.
芭芭拉：对，当时我梦到过我妈妈做的饭，还有烤鸡和烤羊，我都能想起这些美食的味道，可是我不能吃东西。Todd: But after like, say two weeks or something, does your body just get used to not having food?
托德：那两周之后，你的身体是不是已经习惯不进食了？Barbara: Yeah. Yes, it does. Definitely. And I lost a lot of weight, but actually I felt fine. Friends who came to visit me in the hospital were surprised and they were like, "Wow! Where's the rest of you?"
芭芭拉：对，没错。就是这样。那段时间我瘦了很多，不过我感觉还好。来探望我的朋友走进病房看到我以后都特别惊讶，他们的反应是：哇！你怎么瘦了这么多？Todd: You did lose a lot of weight. Actually, how much weight did you lose?
托德：你的确瘦了很多。你体重减了多少？Barbara: I lost, well, I started losing weight because I was changing my diet just before I got ill. In the last eighteen months, I've lost twenty kilos.
芭芭拉：我生病以前已经开始改变饮食习惯，所以那时我就开始减轻体重。过去18个月以来，我瘦了20公斤。Todd: Whoa! That's a lot.
托德：天哪！你真的瘦了很多。Barbara: That is, indeed, yeah.
芭芭拉：没错，是的。Todd: Twenty kilos… Wow! Well, you look great. You must feel great.
托德：20公斤……哇！你看起来很不错。你一定感觉很棒。Barbara: I feel much better. Actually I think sick with that was probably a good thing. It made me take stock and reevaluate things and get healthy.
芭芭拉：我感觉好多了。实际上，我觉得这么看来，这场病可能对我来说是件好事。因为它让我全面审视自己，重新考虑现状，变得更健康。
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重点讲解：
1. come back to sb. 回忆起；回想起来；
例句：He was also an MP — I'll think of his name in a moment when it comes back to me.
他当时也是一位国会议员，他的名字我得想一下才能记起来。
2. get used to 开始习惯于；
例句：I get used to looking after myself.
我已经习惯于照顾自己了。
3. lose weight 体重减轻；变瘦；
例句：She has been taking exercises to lose weight from day to day.
她每天锻炼来减肥。
4. take stock 作出整体估量；全面分析；
例句：I was forty, the age when people take stock and change their lives.
我已年届不惑，到了该全面审视自己并改变生活的年龄了。
