访谈录 2013-01-05&01-07 流感危害孩子们的健康

 　　Emily was really energetic. She was athletic¹.  She had two older brothers that really pushed her to kind of want to join the crowd.

　　She loves people. She loves school. Like many other girls, she loves playing dress-up. Emily came home from school, a little bit more tired than usual and she developed a fever later that night.   We took her to see her pediatrician.  And there she was diagnosed² with the flu.

　　Over the weekends, Saturday, she seemed to be much more lerthargic.  She was vomiting³ a lot. And Monday morning, we made her an appointment with the pediatrician for early that afternoon.  About  eleven o’clock when I was downstairs, I heard my wife started screaming for help. Emily wasn’t breathing and so we started doing CPR and call the paramedics. They took her to the emergency room at the local hospital. They’ve gotten her heart started again.

　　The doctor pulled me inside and said we’ve done everything we can.  We cannot give her any more medication. I mean it’s the medication that sort of keeping her heart, the machine that keeping her alive.  And you know we couldn’t detect⁴ any brain activity.  And so they stopped giving medication.  I know at 9 o’clock that night, we just gonna said goodbye.

　　We want everybody to know that influenza⁵, you know, can kill children.  Learning from us, that make sure you do whatever you can do to protect your children from influenza.

1 athletic   

adj.擅长运动的，强健的；活跃的，体格健壮的

参考例句：

• This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
• He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。

2 diagnosed   

诊断( diagnose的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Some foetal malformations cannot be diagnosed until late in pregnancy. 有些胎儿的畸形部位得等到妊娠后期才能诊断出来。
• He diagnosed the trouble that caused the engine to knock. 他找出了引擎咔咔响的毛病所在。

3 vomiting   

吐

参考例句：

• Symptoms include diarrhoea and vomiting. 症状有腹泻和呕吐。
• Especially when I feel seasick, I can't stand watching someone else vomiting." 尤其晕船的时候，看不得人家呕。”

4 detect   

vt.察觉，发现；探测

参考例句：

• I can detect signs of improvement in your thinking.我可以察觉出你思考问题方面的进步。
• Their instruments can detect the slightest vibration.他们的仪器能探测出极微弱的震动。

5 influenza   

n.流行性感冒，流感

参考例句：

• They took steps to prevent the spread of influenza.他们采取措施
• Influenza is an infectious disease.流感是一种传染病。