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Lesson 48 Did you want to tell me something? 你想对我说什么吗？

Dentists always ask questions when it is impossible for you to answer. My dentist had just pulled out one of my teeth and had told me to rest for a while. I tried to say something, but my mouth was full of cotton-wool. He knew I collected birds' eggs and asked me whether my collection was growing. He then asked me how my brother was and whether I liked my new job in London. In answer to these questions I either nodded or made strange noises. Meanwhile, my tongue was busy searching out the hole where the tooth had been. I suddenly felt very worried, but could not say anything. When the dentist at last removed the cotton-wool from my mouth, I was able to tell him that he had pulled out the wrong tooth.

牙科医生们总是在你无法作出回答的时候向你提出问题。我的牙科医生刚刚给我拔掉了一颗牙，叫我休息一会儿。我想说点什么，但我嘴里塞满了药棉。他知道我收集火柴盒，于是问我收藏的火柴盒是否在增加。接着他又问我的兄弟近来如何，问我是否喜欢伦敦的新工作。作为对这些问题的回答，我不是点头，就是发出奇怪的声音。与此同时，我的舌头正在忙着寻找刚拔掉的那颗牙的伤口。我突然非常着急起来，但却什么也说不出来。当那位牙医最后将药棉从我嘴中取出时，我总算有可能告诉他，他拔错了牙。

• it's impossible for sb to do sth / it's impossible for sb that
  • it's impossible for anyone to get in because no one knew the password.
  • it's impossible that I have walked by without noticing her.
• pull 拉, 移走, 抽出
  • pull off his sweater / pull out his tooth / pull up the weeds
  • pull out all the stops / try sb's best 全力以赴, 竭尽全力
• tell sb to do sth
• cotton(AM) = cotton wool(UK) 脱脂棉;药棉
• thread(AM) = cotton(UK) 棉线;棉纱
• wool 羊毛 balls of wool 毛线球
• collect collection
  • collect: as a hobby, because they interest you
  • collection: 收藏品
• In answer to ...

  • I don't quite know what to say in answer to your question.
    In answer to your question, yes, you can go!

• meanwhile
  • 与此同时 在此期间 = (in the) meantime = in the meanwhile

  • The flight will be announced soon. Meanwhile, please remain seated.
    - 然而
    - > He had always found his wife's mother a bit annoying. The mother-daughter relationship, meanwhile, was close.

• search sb/sth out 找到, 发现 to find sth/sb after searching
  • search out an old friend
  • search out the weaknesses in an argument

From My View:

Dentists always ask questions when it is impossible for patients to say anything. As you know, he can only nod or make strange noises when a man's mouth is full of cotton wool. One of my friend went to the 'Dentist'[=> dentist's] last week, his dentist pulled out one of his teeth and filled a lot of cotton in his mouth. Then he asked my friend questions 'one by one'[=> one after another], but my friend wasn't able to answer. Then he found out surpisedly that his dentist had pulled out 'a'[=> the] wrong tooth, but he still could not tell his dentist about it until his dentist removed the cotton 'out of'[=> from] his mouth.

Knowledges

• 口腔诊所 the dentist or the dentist's
• one by one = happen in sequence, not all at the same time.
• one after the other / one after another 一个接一个地 happen with very little time between them

From The Dentist View:

I am a dentist and one of my patient complained to me that I always ask questions when it is impossible for him to answer. I ask questions just in order to relax the patient and now I have 'realized'[=> recognized] the problem after a medical accident. I had pulled a normal tooth from a patient's mouth but he could not manage to let me know. I have prepared paper and a pen for patients so that they can write down what 'they want to let me know'[=> I should know].

Knowledges

• relax sb: feel more calm and less worried or tense.
• realize / recognize
  • if you realize the fact, you know or understand it, or begin to understand it. 知道或理解
  • if you recognize the fact or problem, you accept that it exists. 接受

Remembers

• meanwhile
  • 与此同时 在此期间 = (in the) meantime = in the meanwhile

  • The flight will be announced soon. Meanwhile, please remain seated.
    - 然而
    - > He had always found his wife's mother a bit annoying. The mother-daughter relationship, meanwhile, was close.

• realize / recognize
  • if you realize the fact, you know or understand it, or begin to understand it. 知道或理解
  • if you recognize the fact or problem, you accept that it exists. 接受

任务时间: 2017-01-30
(作文时间: 2017-01-31, 耗时: 90 分钟)

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