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Medical Story Show

（4-4）

This imaginary infection has spread to the next floor?

这个想象中的传染病蔓延到下一层了吗

We were just going to call.

我们正打算打电话

Did he get hot all of a sudden?

他是突然发烧的吗

Yeah.

是的

Almost there.

快到了

Don't worry, we're almost there.

别担心 快到了

Excuse me!

打扰了

Hi. Hi.

你好 你好

Intake sent you up here?

接待处让你们上来的吗

Yeah, my wife's contractions are less than...

是的 我太太的宫缩少于...

Yeah, Intake messed up.

接待处搞错了

I'm very, very sorry.

我很抱歉 非常对不起

Nurse Alpret will arrange for an ambulance

阿尔普莱特护士会安排救护车

to take you to Princeton General.

送你们去普林斯顿总院

The maternity ward is temporarily closed.

妇产科临时关闭

We have to leave?!

我们非走不可吗

Yes, I am very sorry.

是的 我很抱歉

Why are you doing this?

为什么这么做

You'll be there very, very soon.

你们很快就能到那里

Happy now?

现在满意了

No. But I am interested.

不 不过我感兴趣了

Three sick babies, and a fourth showing early symptoms.

三个发病婴儿 第四个出现早期症状

How bad?

有多糟糕

Spiking fevers.

高烧

BP's plummeting.

血压下降

They're barely able to keep systolic up;

几乎无法维持心脏收缩

at this rate, they'll be dead in a day.

照这个速度 一天之内就会死亡

Where did this come from?

婴儿来自哪里

Two delivery rooms, four different maternity rooms

2 个产房 4 个产后病房

no common personnel and no common equipment.

没有公共人员 没有共用仪器

Well, there's gotta be something in common.

好吧 肯定有什么是共同的

Yeah. That would be the difference between an epidemic and a coincidence.

没错 这就是传染病和巧合的区别

I'm putting a team together.We're going to start swabbing.

我组织一队人 开始消毒

What's she gonna swab?

消毒什么

Every respirator

医院的每个呼吸器

sink, vent, drain in the entire hospital?

水槽 通风口 下水道吗

That'll take months.

要干上几个月 呢

A needle in a haystack.

大海捞针啊

It's worse than that.

比这还糟

We don't even know what's the needle we're looking for.

我们都不知道要找的是不是针

Then why'd you let her go do it?

那你为什么还让她去做

Because the hospital's her baby

因为医院是她的孩子

and her baby's sick.

孩子病了

If she doesn't solve this soon, her head's going to explode

要是不马上解决 她会发火的

and I don't want to get any on me.

我可不想被连累到

So let's figure out what's in the haystack.

所以 让我们看看到底是什么

Differential diagnosis, people.

鉴别诊断

Parasite.

寄生虫

Spreading too quickly.

传播的太快了

Next?

下一个

Virus?

病毒呢

Kids are too sick, and the blood tests show no lymphocytosis.

孩子们病很重 验血也没有淋巴球增多

And they're not responding to a cycle of avirarapovirin.

而且他们对利巴韦林没反应

——From《House M.D》

重点词汇（Vocabulary）

1.messed up 陷入困境；搞糟2.spiking fevers 高烧3.plummeting [ˈplʌmɪtɪŋ] n. 垂直落下；骤然下跌；adj. 直线下降的；v. 垂直落下；骤然下跌4.systolic [ˌsɪˈstɑːlɪk] adj. 心脏收缩的5.Two delivery rooms, four different maternity rooms. 2 个产房 4 个产后病房6.swabbing ['swɔbiŋ] n. 擦（抹）；（起模前）刷水7.respirator [ˈrespəreɪtər] n. 口罩；[医] 呼吸器；防毒面具8.sink [sɪŋk] n. 水槽，水池；洼地，渗坑9.vent [vent] n. 通风孔，排气口10.drain [dreɪn] n. 下水道，排水管11.a needle in a haystack. 大海捞针12.haystack [ˈheɪstæk] n. 干草堆;比喻如大海捞针般难找13.explode [ɪkˈsploʊd]v. （情感）迸发，爆发14.differential diagnosis [临床] 鉴别诊断15.lymphocytosis [ˌlɪmfoʊsaɪˈtoʊsɪs] n. 淋巴球增多；淋巴球过多症

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