day 33first aid and recovery
unit 5 · health & the bodyfirst aid and recovery
Handle small emergencies (heatstroke, a cut), talk about getting well, and say how things turn out in the end with 終究 and 到頭來.
today’s words
- 血壓 xiěyā · blood pressure
- 胸 xiōng · chest
- 急救 jíjiù · first aid, give emergency treatment
- 傷口 shāngkǒu · wound, cut
- 中暑 zhòngshǔ · get heatstroke
- 按摩 ànmó · massage
- 發育 fāyù · grow, develop (physically)
- 嗓子 sǎngzi · throat; voice
- 加重 jiāzhòng · make worse, add to
- 酒精 jiǔjīng · alcohol (rubbing alcohol)
- 康復 kāngfù · recover, get well
- 免疫 miǎnyì · immune
- 損傷 sǔnshāng · damage, injure
- 消毒 xiāodú · disinfect
- 抑制 yìzhì · hold back, inhibit
- 防治 fángzhì · prevent and treat
- 患 huàn · suffer from (an illness)
- 肺炎 fèiyán · pneumonia
- 額外 éwài · extra, additional
- 歸 guī · return; be the job of
- 咦 yí · huh? (surprise)
- 到頭來 dàotóulái · in the end (after all that)
- 終究 zhōngjiù · after all, in the end
sentences
- 他忙了一年，到頭來什麼都沒有。 · He worked hard all year, and in the end he had nothing to show for it.
- 熬夜會加重感冒，小心變成肺炎。 · Staying up makes a cold worse: careful it doesn’t turn into pneumonia.
- 爺爺患了高血壓，每天早上都要量血壓。 · Grandpa has high blood pressure, so he takes it every morning.
- 太大的聲音會損傷耳朵。 · Very loud noise can damage your ears.
- 政府很重視這種病的防治。 · The government takes preventing and treating this disease seriously.