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新一輯英語篇，選取歷史性的演講詞，學習如何透過語言說服和打動人；另外還有Miss Maggie的實用筆記，為公開試考生加油！
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英語篇#11 The Pleasure of Books - William Lyon Phelps
Summary of the Speech:
- Talked about how you need to be careful with books, but with books that you own, you can feel free to mark them.
- The importance of a bookshelf that had easy access (no glass doors and locks).
- Good to start your own private library at youth.
- Explained why books are good friends.
Some Important Parts of the Speech:
Books are for use, not for show; you should own no book that you are afraid to mark up, or afraid to place on the table, wide open and face down. A good reason for marking favorite passages in books is that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings, to refer to them quickly, and then in later years, it is like visiting a forest where you once blazed a trail.
- Blaze (n/v ) 熊熊燃燒/大火/閃耀; 發亮光
Firefighters took two hours to control the blaze. 消防隊員花了兩個小時才控制住大火
(Literary use) Isaac's eyes blazed with anger. 艾薩克的眼裡冒出怒火
The best of mural 壁畫 decorations is books; they are more varied in color and appearance than any wallpaper, they are more attractive in design, and they have the prime advantage主要優勢 of being separate personalities, so that if you sit alone in the room in the firelight 火光下, you are surrounded with intimate friends密友.
- Prime 首要的/主要的; 基本的
He is the prime suspect in the murder investigation. 他是謀殺案調查中的主要嫌疑犯
The hotel is in a prime location in the city centre. 該旅館位於市中心的黃金地段
Prime beef 上等牛肉
Prime time 全盛時期; 盛年/壯年時期; 黃金時間 (period with high viewership)
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英語篇 #11 求醫的英文用語
Presenters：Maggie 黃蔚兒、Joanne 譚綺旻
We’ve had five waves of COVID already, but we are still very alerted.
● News headline from The Guardian:
“Alarm in Beijing after announcement zero-Covid policy 清零政策 may last five
years”
- Communist party official posts notice saying mass mandatory testing and travel curbs will continue
Symptoms of COVID (Most common)
○ Fever
■ I had a fever last night.
○ Cough
■ I have been coughing a lot.
○ Tiredness （exhausted 很累)
■ I have been exhausted.
○ Loss of taste or smell
■ I haven’t been able to taste anything.
○ Phlegm 痰 (spit out your phlegm 吐痰)
■ I have been coughing up a lot of phlegm.
○ Stuffy nose 鼻塞
■ My nose has been stuffy, especially when I am lying down.
○ Snot / nasal mucus 鼻涕 / 鼻的分泌物
■ There’s a lot of snot.
○ Migraine 偏頭痛
■ I keep getting migraines.
Some people are affected by long COVID and this can last months.
Common long COVID symptoms include:
- extreme tiredness (fatigue) 疲倦
- shortness of breath 呼吸急促
- chest pain or tightness 胸痛或緊繃
- problems with memory and concentration ("brain fog") 記憶/專注力問題
- difficulty sleeping (insomnia 失眠）
- heart palpitations 心悸
- Dizziness 頭暈
4. Women get periods, unless they have had menopause (停經）already.
Symptoms associated with menstrual 月經的 period:
cramps （m 痛) / menstrual pain/ menstrual cramps Back pain 背疼 / Lower back pain 腰疼 (back can be the whole back) (On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being extremely painful, how would you rate your pain?) When you go see a gynecologist, they would always ask, “When was the first day of your last period?” In Europe, men can pay to experience giving birth, would you do it?
They use a machine that puts electric currents into your body to force your muscles to contract. 肌肉收縮 “It hits me like a train 疼到好像被火車撞. It feels as if my stomach is being so violently compressed it’s going to come out of my back.”
The weather in Hong Kong is always so humid. The air is very polluted.
● allergy 敏感
● Nasal allergy 鼻敏感
● food allergy 食物敏感
- Do you have any food allergies?
- My cat is allergic to gluten (a wheat allergy).
● Allergic (Are you allergic to peanuts?/ A lot of westerners are allergic to peanuts)
● Eczema 濕疹
- The doctor may prescribe steroid cream). / prescribe 配藥
- There is some rash.
● Rash 皮疹
● Diagnosed with 被診斷出 / diagnosis (noun)
- You have been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
- You have been diagnosed with pneumonia (肺炎).
