口語式短文：生病看醫生

Go to a doctor :

•  Most of the time my body is healthy. But sometimes I catch cold or have a stomach upset.

• 我的身體大部分時候是很健康的，但偶而也會有感冒或腸胃不適的症狀出現。

•  Usually at the beginning when I feel unwell, mom and dad will first use some traditional methods to alleviate my symptoms, for example, telling me to drink more water or swallow some vitamin C tablets.

• 通常剛開始覺得身體不舒服時，爸媽會先用一些傳統的方法幫我減緩症狀。例如，叫我多喝水、吃維他命 C 片。

•  Sometimes I just let it alone and take more rest, and the symptoms will gradually disappear.

• 甚至有時不理它，多休息，慢慢的病症也就不見了。

•  But when the symptoms keep on, I cannot but go to a doctor.

• 如果病症沒辦法減輕，只好去看醫生了。

•  When I arrive at a doctor's clinic, first I need to register and then the nurse will take my temperature. After that I'll wait for the nurse to call my name.

• 去看醫生時，要先掛號和量體溫。然後排隊等護士叫名字。

•  After entering the doctor's room, the doctor usually first asks me the symptoms. Now I always try to answer the questions by myself, but mom and dad will usually help me explain my symptoms.

• 看診時，醫生會先問我哪兒不舒服，現在我都會試著自己回答，但通常爸媽也會幫我說明。

•  Afterwards the doctor will use the stethoscope to check my chest and back. Or he will tell me to open my mouth and use a tongue depressor to push my tongue down to see if there is inflammation in my throat.

• 然後醫生會用聽診器在我的胸前和背後探聽，或叫我張開嘴，用壓舌片壓住我的舌頭，以便檢查我的喉嚨看看有沒有發炎。

•  Sometimes when I was at the doctor's room I already had a high fever, the doctor would tell the nurses to give me an injection to bring down my fever.

• 有時在看診時已經發高燒了，醫生就會叫護士幫我打退燒針。

•  After consultation and treatment, we go get the medicine. Normally it consists of pills and oral liquid. I usually get well after taking medicine for one or two days.

• 看完診就去領藥，通常有藥丸和藥水兩種。通常吃一、兩天藥，病就好了。

發表時間：2009/08/26 著作人：周國華老師