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No. 131

Traditional Chinese medicine

In a patient with abdominal fullness, absence of pain when pressed indicates deficiency; pain indicates repletion. In the case of repletion, you may precipitate. If the tongue is yellow before precipitation, the yellowness will naturally disappear when you precipitate.

病者腹满，按之不痛为虚，痛者为实，可下之。舌黄未下者，下之黄自去。

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1、guarantee n. 保证；担保；保证人；保证书；抵押品

vt. 保证；担保

1、noninvasive adj. 非侵袭的；非侵害的

2、pellet n. 小球；[军] 小子弹（枪用）

3、cyst n. [肿瘤] 囊肿；[生物] 包囊；膀胱

4、cerebrospinal adj. [解剖] 脑脊髓的

5、larva n. [水产] 幼体，[昆] 幼虫

6、albendazole n. 阿苯达唑

7、side effect 副作用

9、The worm's cyst is the same density as the cerebrospinal fluid. 虫胞密度和脑脊髓液密度相近。

10、abdominal pain, nausea, headaches, dizziness, fever and hair loss. 腹痛、呕吐、头痛、眩晕、发烧还有脱发。

——From《House M.D》

World Insight

15 Harmful Habits Holding You Back

7. Gossiping.

八卦

Gossip is one of the cheapest forms of communication. Don’t believe me? Take shame and vulnerability researcher and best-selling author Brené Brown’s word for it. “Common enemy intimacy is counterfeit connection and the opposite of true belonging,” Brown writes. “If the bond we share with others is simply that we hate the same people, the intimacy we experience is often intense, immediately gratifying, and an easy way to discharge outrage and pain. It is not, however, fuel for real connection… It’s also the kind of intimacy that can leave us with the intense regrets of an integrity hangover. Did I really participate in that?”

八卦是最廉价的交流方式之一。不相信我？以羞耻和脆弱研究员，畅销书作者布伦·布朗（Brené Brown）的话为例。“共同敌人亲密感是一种伪关系，与真正归属感相背”，布朗写到。“如果我们与他人之间的联系只是我们讨厌同一个人，我们体验到的亲密关系是强烈的，能迅速得到满足，而且是发泄愤怒和痛苦的一种简单方式。然而，它并非真正关系的燃料……随着强烈悔恨的产生，这种亲密感就会离我们而去。我真的参与了吗？”

When you can, talk about ideas, not people. And when you must talk about others, build them up instead of breaking them down.

当你可以时，谈论想法，而不是人。当你必须谈论别人的时候，造就他们而不是摧毁他们。

It’s what you’d want others to do if they were tempted to talk about you.

如果别人想谈论你，你也希望他们这么做。

（To be continued）

Source: https://thriveglobal.com

重点词汇（Vocabulary）

1. gossip [ˈɡɑːsɪp] n. 流言蜚语

2. vulnerability [ˌvʌlnərə'bɪləti] n. 弱点

3. intimacy [ˈɪntɪməsi] n. 亲密;密切

4. counterfeit [ˈkaʊntərfɪt] adj. 伪造的

5. gratifying [ˈɡrætɪfaɪɪŋ] adj. 使人满意的

6. repletion [rɪ'pliʃən] n. 充满，饱满；饱食

7. yellowness [ˈjeloʊnəs] n. 黄色；发黄；猜忌；胆怯

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