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Medical Story Show

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thinking sex could kill you.

认为做爱能害死人的时候

I was just making a joke because I was uncomfortable.

我就是开玩笑 因为我不是很自在

Oh, I don't even remember what you said.

我连你说过什么都不记得了

I'm uncomfortable about sex.

性让我心神不安

Well, we don't have to talk about this. Sex could kill you.

我们没有必要讨论这个 性能害死你

Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex?

你知道在做爱时人体会发生什么变化吗

Pupils dilate. Arteries constrict.

瞳孔放大 动脉收缩

Core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets.

体温上升 心跳加速 血压猛涨

Respiration becomes rapid and shallow.

呼吸短浅而急促

The brain fires bursts of

大脑肆意地

electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere.

放射电脉冲

Secretions spit out of every gland

各腺体排放分泌物

and the muscles tense and spasm

肌肉的收缩程度

Like you're lifting three times your body weight.

相当于你在举起你体重三倍的重物

It's violent, it's ugly, and it's messy.

它就是暴力 丑陋与肮脏的混合体

and if god hadn't made it unbelievably fun

如果上帝没有把性变得难以置信地有趣

the human race would've died out eons ago.

那么人类早已灭绝了

Men are lucky they can only have one orgasm.

男人只有一次性高潮是很幸运的事情

You know that women can have an hour-long orgasm?

你知道女人会有长达一小时的性高潮吗

Hey, Foreman. What's up?

嘿 福曼 怎么了

Hey, Foreman. Hey.

嘿 福曼 嗨

White cell count isn't up, is it?

白血球数量不高 是吧

No. We were both wrong.

是的 我们都错了

White cell count is down way down and dropping.

白血球数量极低 而且还在下降

His immune system is shot. We need to get him into a clean room.

他的免疫系统衰竭了 我们要把他带到无菌室

Can you walk, Brandon?

你还能走吗 布兰登

Yeah. A little.

嗯 勉强可以吧

Okay. 'Cause we'll need to leave the chair outside. Thank you.

很好 因为我们不能把轮椅带进去 谢谢了

Where's April? April?

艾普尔在哪里 艾普尔

Can you take that chair, please? Thank you.

麻烦把轮椅拿出去 谢谢了

Yes, Robert.

没问题 罗伯特

I'll need to take your, um your mask and your robe too.

我要把你的口罩和长袍脱下

You might wanna block your ears for this, it's quite loud.

塞住你的耳朵的吧 会很吵的

Something's made him immunocompromised.

某些东西使他的免疫减弱了

His white blood cell count is down

他的白血球含量很低

which means his body can't fight off infections.

就是说他的身体不能抵抗感染

If he gets sick, he'll die.

如果他稍有生病 他就会死了

——From《House M.D》

重点词汇（Vocabulary）

1.Pupils dilate. Arteries constrict. 瞳孔放大 动脉收缩

2.Core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets. 体温上升 心跳加速 血压猛涨

3.Respiration becomes rapid and shallow. 呼吸短浅而急促

4.gland [ɡlænd] n. 腺；密封套

5.secretion [sɪˈkriːʃn] n. 分泌；分泌物；藏匿；隐藏

6.spit out of 从...吐出

7.spasm [ˈspæzəm] n.痉挛;抽搐

8.eon [ˈiːənˌˈiːɑːn] n. 极长时期，万古；十亿年；宙

9.clean room 无菌室

10.immunocompromised [ˌɪmjənoˈkɑmprəmaɪzd; ɪˌmjʊnoˈkɑmprəmaɪzd] adj. 免疫功能不全的

11.His white blood cell count is down. 他的白血球含量很低

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