看病就医篇：测血压（2）

A: How have you been feeling lately?

B: I’ve been feeling a little light-headed lately.

A: Has your blood pressure been high before?

B: If I have high blood pressure, it is news to me.

A: Usually people with high blood pressure have no symptoms, so we call it the silent killer¹.

B: What do you use to check for high blood pressure?

A: I am going to put a cuff² on you to get a reading.

B: What does the reading tell you?

A: I get an idea of the pressure in your arteries³ when your heart is pumping blood versus⁴ at rest.

B: I hope that the test results show me to be really healthy.

 

A: 你最近感觉怎么样？

B:我最近觉得有点头晕。

A: 你以前血压高吗？

B:如果我有高血压，这对我来说是个新闻。

A: 通常高血压患者没有症状，所以我们称之为沉默杀手。

B:你用什么检查高血压？

A: 我要给你戴上袖带，让你看看。

B:这数值告诉你什么？

A: 我能了解到当你的心脏在泵血时和休息时动脉的压力。

B:我希望测试结果表明我真的很健康。

1 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

2 cuff   

n.袖口；手铐；护腕；vt.用手铐铐；上袖口

参考例句：

• She hoped they wouldn't cuff her hands behind her back.她希望他们不要把她反铐起来。
• Would you please draw together the snag in my cuff?请你把我袖口上的裂口缝上好吗？

3 arteries   

n.动脉( artery的名词复数 )；干线，要道

参考例句：

• Even grafting new blood vessels in place of the diseased coronary arteries has been tried. 甚至移植新血管代替不健康的冠状动脉的方法都已经试过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• This is the place where the three main arteries of West London traffic met. 这就是伦敦西部三条主要交通干线的交汇处。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。