英闻天下——49 Hillary Clinton Released from the Hospital

 　　US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been released from hospital after undergoing treatment for a blood clot¹.

 

　　The State Department said on Wednesday that she had been up and taking emails and phone calls from bed.

 

　　Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday and treated with blood thinners to dissolve the clot between her brain and skull².

 

　　Clinton's doctors say there was no neurological damage and that she is expected to make a full recovery.

1 clot   

n.凝块；v.使凝成块

参考例句：

• Platelets are one of the components required to make blood clot.血小板是血液凝固的必须成分之一。
• The patient's blood refused to clot.病人的血液无法凝结。

2 skull   

n.头骨；颅骨

参考例句：

• The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
• He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。