Since most medical men in the Health Services are overworked and have little time for offering time-consuming and little-appreciated advice on such subjects as diet, right living, and the need for abandoning bad habits, etc., the bottle, the box, and the jar are almost always granted them.

因为卫生部门的大多数医务人员都工作过分劳累，几乎抽不出时间向病人提出即费时间又不太受欢迎的关于饮食限制、生活规律、克服不良习惯等的忠告，所以病人得到的差不多总是一些瓶瓶罐罐而已。

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He started training as a cabinet-maker because he was good with his hands, but when he was 20 he went up to London to work under his brother, William, a skilled medical teacher.

由于手巧，他开始学做桌椅。但20岁那年，他到伦敦，在富有经验的医学教师--哥哥威廉的手下做事。

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In the last decades， advances in medical technology have made it possible for people to live longer than in the past.

在最近几十年，医学技术的进步使得人类有可能比过去活得长了。

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History does not relate whether his friend accepted his medical help, but in all probability he did.

这个故事并未说明他的朋友是否接受了他的药物帮助,但很可能是接受了。

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Recently the New York Animal Medical Centre made a study of 132 cats over a period of five months.

最近，纽约动物医疗中心对132只猫进行了为期5个月的综合研究。

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From smallpox to influenza to the plague, there was often no medical treatment to prevent or cure these diseases. Take for example, the plague that hit Europe in the 14th century. It is also known as the "Black Death."

从天花、流感到瘟疫，这类疾病通常都没有药物可以预防或治疗。例如14世纪席卷欧洲的瘟疫。它也被称为“黑死病”。

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With no medical prevention available, isolating the sick was the only effective public health defense. With many other pandemics, the best chance at prevention was to keep sick people away from healthy people. This is called a quarantine.

没有可用的医学预防措施，隔离病人便成了唯一有效的公共卫生防御措施。预防许多其它传染病的最好办法就是使病人远离健康人群。这被称之为quarantine（隔离）。

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A common question when you first meet someone in the States is, "What field do you work in?" or simply "What is your field?" Work fields are usually general. For example, if you are a doctor you would answer that you work in the medical field. A lawyer is in the legal field. And a marketing specialist’s field is business.

当你在美国跟人首次见面时一般会问：“What field do you work in？（你从事什么领域的工作啊？）或者直接问“What is your field？（你干哪行啊？）”举例来说，如果你是医生，你会回答说，我在医疗领域工作。律师在法律领域工作，营销专家就在商业领域工作。

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If you do not care for that medical image, you can also use the verb stew. When we stew over something, we think about it so much that it becomes a big problem for us. When we stew over something, we are upset or worried about.

如果你不在乎医学形象，你也可以使用stew这个动词。当我们焦虑某些事情的时候，我们对它想得太多，以至于它成为我们的一个大问题。Stew over something是指我们对它感到沮丧或焦虑。

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That means you can use "pass with flying colors" when you are being graded on a test or course, but also in a situation that is out of your control -- such as a medical exam.

这意味着你通过某门考试或课程时，你可以使用“pass with flying colors。”但是在某些你无法控制的情况下也能使用这句表达，例如体检。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：不同方式论胜败