美語情景對話 第639期:Hospital Food 醫院飲食

Todd: So, Barbara, we're talking about your time in the hospital. You were in the hospital for sometime. First of all, how long were you actually in the hospital?

託德：芭芭拉，我們來談談你在醫院的生活。你住了一段時間的院。你住了多長時間的院？

Barbara: Well, I was in two hospitals actually. At first, I was in a big hospital for three and a half weeks and I was on a drip for all of that time, and they didn't let me eat anything, and the first couple of days, they also didn't let me drink anything.

芭芭拉：嗯，其實我是在兩家醫院接受的治療。一開始，我在一家大醫院入院治療了三週半，那段時間我一直在打點滴，他們不讓我吃東西，前幾天的時候醫生甚至都不讓我喝水。

Todd: Whoa!

託德：哇！

Barbara: Yeah.

芭芭拉：對。

Todd: So you were on a drip… I'm sorry, how long?

託德：抱歉，你打了多長時間的點滴？

Barbara: Three and a half weeks.

芭芭拉：三週半。

Todd: Whoa! No solid food for three and a half weeks.

託德：哇！三週半沒有吃固體食物。

Barbara: No food for three and a half weeks.

芭芭拉：三週半沒有吃東西。

Todd: Man!

託德：天哪！

Barbara: Yeah, I was dreaming about my mother's cooking, and I was dreaming about roast chicken and roast lamb and man, the smells and the tastes came back to me, but there was no food.

芭芭拉：對，當時我夢到過我媽媽做的飯，還有烤雞和烤羊，我都能想起這些美食的味道，可是我不能吃東西。

Todd: But after like, say two weeks or something, does your body just get used to not having food?

託德：那兩週之後，你的身體是不是已經習慣不進食了？

Barbara: Yeah. Yes, it does. Definitely. And I lost a lot of weight, but actually I felt fine. Friends who came to visit me in the hospital were surprised and they were like, "Wow! Where's the rest of you?"

芭芭拉：對，沒錯。就是這樣。那段時間我瘦了很多，不過我感覺還好。來探望我的朋友走進病房看到我以後都特別驚訝，他們的反應是：哇！你怎麼瘦了這麼多？

Todd: You did lose a lot of weight. Actually, how much weight did you lose?

託德：你的確瘦了很多。你體重減了多少？

Barbara: I lost, well, I started losing weight because I was changing my diet just before I got ill. In the last eighteen months, I've lost twenty kilos.

芭芭拉：我生病以前已經開始改變飲食習慣，所以那時我就開始減輕體重。過去18個月以來，我瘦了20公斤。

Todd: Whoa! That's a lot.

託德：天哪！你真的瘦了很多。

Barbara: That is, indeed, yeah.

芭芭拉：沒錯，是的。

Todd: Twenty kilos… Wow! Well, you look great. You must feel great.

託德：20公斤……哇！你看起來很不錯。你一定感覺很棒。

Barbara: I feel much better. Actually I think sick with that was probably a good thing. It made me take stock and reevaluate things and get healthy.

芭芭拉：我感覺好多了。實際上，我覺得這麼看來，這場病可能對我來說是件好事。因爲它讓我全面審視自己，重新考慮現狀，變得更健康。

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重點講解：
1. come back to sb. 回憶起；回想起來；
例句：He was also an MP — I'll think of his name in a moment when it comes back to me.
他當時也是一位國會議員，他的名字我得想一下才能記起來。
2. get used to 開始習慣於；
例句：I get used to looking after myself.
我已經習慣於照顧自己了。
3. lose weight 體重減輕；變瘦；
例句：She has been taking exercises to lose weight from day to day.
她每天鍛鍊來減肥。
4. take stock 作出整體估量；全面分析；
例句：I was forty, the age when people take stock and change their lives.
我已年屆不惑，到了該全面審視自己並改變生活的年齡了。