迷你对话学地道口语第366期:病后恢复离床下地

　　第一、迷你对话
A: How is Tom now?
汤姆怎么样了？
B: He’s out of hospital and up and about again at last.
他已经出院了，终于可以下床了。
A: Let’s congratulate him on Sunday.
我们星期天像她道贺吧。
第二、对话精讲
1.地道表达
地道短语】up and about
解词释义】该习语是指“由原来的卧病而变成可以起床到处走动”，即“病后离床下地”。
支持范例1】He's too weak to be up and about.
他太虚弱了，不能起来走动。
支持范例2】 I am glad to see you are up and about again .
很高兴看到你恢复了健康。
2. 词海拾贝
out of hospital：出院
支持范例1】He' s coming out of hospital on Friday.
他星期五要出院了。
支持范例2】When Eric came out of hospital, his friends made a great fuss of him.
埃里克从医院出来后，朋友们对他照顾备至。
at last：最后，终于，最终
支持范例1】He was pleased that at last he was extricated¹.
他很高兴他终于获得了解脱。
支持范例2】At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California.
消防队员终于扑灭了加利福尼亚洲的一场森林大火。

1 extricated   

v.使摆脱困难，脱身( extricate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The meeting seemed to be endless, but I extricated myself by saying I had to catch a plane. 会议好象没完没了，不过我说我得赶飞机，才得以脱身。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She extricated herself from her mingled impulse to deny and guestion. 她约束了自己想否认并追问的不可明状的冲动。 来自辞典例句