生活英语对话 Episode 6: Breakfast Time

本单元是关于早饭时间的对话

Tim: Morning, campers!

Alice: Ooh, not so loud, my head\'s killing me.

Michal: I feel awful too. I\'ve got a pain in my stomach. My head

hurts.....

Tim: Welcome to your first British hangover Michal! What you

need now is a good fry-up.

Alice: Bleugh! Oh, morning Helen. You look as bad as I feel.

Have you been crying?

Helen: No, no of course not. Just burning the midnight oil

studying, studying, studying.

Tim: So, who\'s for eggs, beans and toast?

Alice: Urgh! You really are a pain in the neck sometimes Tim!

本单元的语言点是关于生病的英语说法，当你生病了，你可以用以下方式描述你的症状(病情)。

Illness

生病

When you\'re ill, you can describe your symptoms (changes in

your body which show that you\'re ill) in the following ways:

当你生病了，你可以用以下方式描述你的症状(病情)

You can use have got + ache (when it forms part of a compound

noun) with only 5 parts of the body:

只有下列五种身体部位可以加上 ache 组成集合名词

I\'ve got (a) backache

She\'s got (a) stomach-ache

He\'s got a headache

You\'ve got (an) earache

He\'s got (a) toothache

Note: All of these aches except headache are usually uncountable

in British English so you don\'t use a or an with them. In

American English, all these aches are countable so you use a or

an with them.

You can use hurt/ache (verb) with any part of the body:

任何身体部位都可以用 hurt/ache 当动词使用

My leg hurts

Her ankle hurts

His stomach aches

Everything aches

My toes hurt

His hands ache

You can use sore (adjective) with any part of the body:

任何身体部位都可以用sore当形容词使用

I\'ve got a sore arm

She\'s got a sore leg

He\'s got a sore toe

You\'ve got a sore head

You can use pain (noun) with any part of the body:

pain当名词使用，可以用在任何身体部位上

I feel a pain in my leg

She\'s got a pain in her stomach

He has got a pain in his toe

You can use be or feel + ill/sick/unwell (adjective) or

feel + awful (adjective) to talk about your health in general:

概括描述病情时，可以用be或feel加上ill/sick/unwell，也可以用feel

awful

I feel ill

He feels awful

I\'m sick

She\'s unwell

We\'re not well

Vocabulary: 词汇

Morning, campers! (informal greeting to more than one person):

Good morning!

早啊!

My head\'s killing me (idiom): I\'ve got a very bad headache

我的头痛死了

A hangover (n): A headache from drinking a lot of alcohol

宿醉

A fry-up (n, informal): A meal made of fried foods (fried egg,

mushrooms, bacon etc)

油炸食物

To burn the midnight oil (idiom): To study or work until late at

night

熬夜工作

Who\'s for...? (offer, informal): Who wants...?

谁要...?

You\'re a pain in the neck (idiom): You\'re very annoying

你很烦人