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Medical Story Show

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Is this important?

这很重要吗

Uh, no. Good.

不 很好

What's with you and her? Don't.

你和她怎么了 别问了

You have a thing for her? The only people who can get to you

你喜欢她的是吧 唯一可以让你...

No. There is not a thin line between love and hate.

不 恨与爱不只有一线之隔

There is, in fact, a great wall of china

事实上 爱与恨之间是有一道长城

with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate.

每隔 20 尺还有武装的哨兵

Thirty-six vicodin. Who's the patient?

36 片维科丁 病人是谁

I am. You can't

我 你不能

Dr. Wilson is the prescribing physician. Yeah.

威尔森医生是处方医师 是的

You will lie, cheat and steal to get what you want

你为了拿到你想要的会撒谎 欺骗和偷窃

but you're incapable of kissing a little ass?

但是你不会拍马屁

We all have our limitations.

我们都有不足之处

House? Wrong bottle. Do me a favor.

豪斯 你拿错药了 帮我个忙

Take one of these, wait five minutes

吃一片药 等个 5 分钟

for it to kick in, then find Cuddy and kiss her ass.

让它发挥药性 然后去找卡迪拍拍马屁

What was the kid's first symptom?

那孩子最先的症状是什么

You did the history. Of his 800 symptoms

你整理的病历 他的 800 个症状

which one hit him first?

哪个是第一个

Uh, the cough.

咳嗽

Gout.

痛风

Are we talking about Brandon? Gout?

我们在讨论布兰登吗 痛风吗

Uric acid crystals in the joints?

关节里有尿酸结晶吗

The symptoms are pain, swelling, redness

症状是疼痛 肿胀 发红

stiffness. Not one of which do I see on that board.

四肢强直 我在白板上一个都看不到啊

Because he doesn't have gout.

因为他没有得痛风

Every day, cells die.

每一天 细胞都会死

We survive because the

我们还活着是因为

remaining cells divide and replace the losses.

活细胞分裂取代死掉的细胞

The colchicine, a gout medicine

秋水仙素 治疗痛风的药物

blocks mitosis and stops cell division

阻挡了有丝分裂和停止了细胞分裂

which will result in abdominal pain, rash

会引起腹部的疼痛 皮疹

nausea, fever, kidney failure, low blood pressure...

恶心 发烧 肾衰竭 低血压

and will also mess with the bone marrow.

还会在骨髓里捣乱

But he doesn't have gout. Why would he have gout medication?

但是他没有痛风 为什么他会吃痛风药

Because you guys were right.

因为你们是正确的

He didn't have two conditions at the exact same time.

他没有同时出现两个状况

First, he got a cough.

首先 他咳嗽

And because he's an idiot, he went to a doctor.

又因为他是个白痴 他去找医生了

In order to justify charging $200

为了不愧对收他的两百美金

that doctor felt he should actually do something. 那医生就觉得他应该做些什么

Oops. He wrote a prescription.

他写了一个处方

Seven thousand people die each year from pharmacy screw-ups.

每年有 7 千人死于药房的错误

Not nearly as many as die from doctor screw-ups

不亚于死于医生的出错

But still, not something they use in their promotional materials.

但仍然 不会影响医生们的晋升

The pharmacist gave him gout medicine instead of cough medicine.

药剂师没给他咳嗽药反而给他痛风药

And the only thing it wouldn't do

唯一不会有的一个作用就是

it would do absolutely nothing to relieve his cough.

不会治好他的咳嗽

Occam's razor.

奥坎简化律

——From《House M.D》

重点词汇（Vocabulary）

1.have a thing for 喜欢……；对……有强烈的好感2.sentry [ˈsentri] n. 哨兵；岗哨3.Do me a favor 帮个忙好么；给我点面子4.kick in 开始生效5.gout [ɡaʊt] n. [遗][外科]痛风6.Uric acid crystals in the joints? 关节里有尿酸结晶吗？7.The symptoms are pain, swelling, redness 症状是疼痛 肿胀 发红8.stiffness [ˈstɪfnəs] n. 僵硬；坚硬；不自然；顽固9.colchicine [ˈkɑːltʃɪsiːn; ˈkɑːlksiːn] n. [有化] 秋水仙碱，[有化] 秋水仙素10.mitosis [maɪˈtoʊsɪs] n. 间接核分裂，[细胞] 有丝分裂11.nausea [ˈnɔːziə] n. 恶心，呕吐感；极端的憎恶

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