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You're Going to Be Fine 早日康复 ACT II教师讲解版视频

In the hospital the next day. Now there are four children, including Carl. Molly enters and tries to amuse them.

Molly：OK. Do you know how to play charades?

[Betty and Tim raise their hands.]

Molly：Frank, you've never played charades?

Frank：Nope.

Molly：Carl, you're sure you're never played?

[Carl shakes his head no.]

Molly：Ok, Betty, Tim, and Frank. We're going to play charades. Frank, you can learn as we go. And, Carl, you join in at any

time. OK, let me think. OK, I've got one. [She writes a title on a piece of paper. She puts the paper on a table so that no one can see the title. ] All right. [She makes the charades motion for “movie” by pretending to hold an old-fashioned camera in her left hand and turning the handle with her right hand.]

Betty：A movie! A movie!

Molly：[She touches her nose with her index finger.This means“correct”in charades.]

Right. A movie. OK. [She counts to six on her fingers because there are six words in the title of the movie. Then she holds up six fingers.]

Tim：Six words. It has six words.

Frank：That's easy. I can play.

Molly：Good. OK. We've got a movie.The title…

Betty：Six words.

Molly：Right. First word…[She pulls her ear. This means“sounds like”in charades.]

Betty：Sounds like.

Tim：Sounds like…

Molly：You got that part right. Yes.

[pulling her ear] Sounds like…

[She shakes her head no.]

Sounds like what?

Frank：Sounds like no.

Molly：[touching her nose] Absolutely right, Frank.

Sounds like no. OK. We've got a movie. Six words. The first word sounds like no.

Frank：Row. Row.

Tim：Go.

Molly：Nope.

Tim：Show. That's it-show.

Molly：[laughing] NO…OK… [She acts out the word snow with her fingers.]

Betty：[quickly] Snow.

Molly：[She touches her nose.] Absolutely right,

Betty. Sounds like no----snow. OK, a movie.

Six words. The first word is snow.

Frank：This is fun.

[Carl doesn't think so.]

Molly：Oh, OK. [She holds up five fingers.]

Betty：The fifth word.

Molly：Right, fifth word. [She holds up seven fingers.]

Tim：Seven?

Molly：[She touches her nose.] Absolutely right.

Very good. The fifth word is seven. OK, we've got a movie. The first word is snow.

Fifth word, seven.

Betty：I got it!! I got it!

Frank：Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

[Molly shows the piece of paper with the title.]

Betty：I got it.

Frank：I got it.

Molly：Frank, you got it. Betty, you had it, but you didn't say it.

Tim：I knew it.

Molly：Carl, now you know charades. Why don't you join us?

Carl：I don't like charades. It's for babies.

Molly：Oh, I like it.

Carl：Well, they're babies.

Betty：You're a sore loser.

Tim：Yeah.

Molly：No arguing. Save you voices.Between now and tomorrow you're all going to have your tonsils out. And you won't be able

to speak for a while. So save your voices till then. [She points to her throat.]

Philip：[He enters.] Hi, gang. Hi, everybody.

Well, what's going on?

Molly：I sure am glad to see you, Dr. Stewart. [joking] This is a rough group.

Carl：I didn't want to play charades, so they're angry at me.

Philip：Why don't you want to play?

Carl：Because I don't want to be here. I don't want my tonsils out.

Philip：Why not?

Carl：Because my birthday is tomorrow. My mother promised me a birthday party with a clown.

Molly：But you can have one when you go home, Carl.

Carl：But my birthday is tomorrow.

Philip：I'm sorry, Carl.

Molly：Carl, you'll have your party when you go home.

Carl：But it won't be on my birthday! [to Molly]

And you promised me a surprise.

OK. 好。
Do you know how to play charades? 你们会打哑谜吗？
Frank, you've never played charades? Frank，你从来没玩过哑谜。
Nope. 没有。
Carl, you're sure you've never played? Carl 你肯定你从没玩过吗？
OK, Betty, Tim, and Frank. 好，Betty，Tim，Frank。
We're going to play charades. 我们来玩哑谜。
Frank, you can learn as we go. Frank 我们玩，你跟着学。
And, Carl, you join in at any time. 还有Carl，你随时都可以加入。
OK, let me think. 好，让我想想。
OK, I've got one. 好，我有了。
All right. 行了。
A movie! 电影！
A movie! 电影！
Right. 对。
A movie. 电影。
OK. 好。
Six words. 六个字。
It has six words. 有六个字。
That's easy. 这很容易。
I can play. 我也能玩。
Good. OK. 好的。
We've got a movie. 我们知道是一部电影。
The title ... 名字是……
Six words. 有六个字。
Right. 对。
First word ... 第一个字……
Sounds like.（听来）像……
You got that part right. 你们这一部份猜对了。
Yes. 是的。
Sounds like ...（听来）像……
Sounds like what? （听来）像什么？
Sounds like no. （听来）像 no 。
Absolutely right, Frank. 完全正确 Frank。
Sounds like no. （听来）像 no 。
OK. 好。
We've got a movie. 我们知道是一部电影。
Six words. 六个字。
The first word sounds like no. 第一个字音像no。
Row. Row. Row。 Row。
Go. Go。
Nope. 不对。
Show. Show。
That's it--show. 就是它，show。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
No ... OK ... 不是……好……
Snow. 雪。
Absolutely right, Betty. 完全正确 Betty。
Sounds like no -- snow. 音像no，Snow。
OK, a movie. Six words. 好，一部电影。六个字。
The first word is snow. 第一个字是Snow 。
This is fun. 很有意思。
Oh, OK. 噢，好了。
The fifth word. 第五个字。
Right, fifth word. 对，第五个字。
Seven? Seven?
Absolutely right. 完全正确。
Very good. 很好。
The fifth word is seven. 第五个字是seven。
OK, we've got a movie. 好，我们知道是一部电影。
The first word is snow. 第一个字是“snow”。
Fifth word, seven. 第五个字是“seven”。
I got it! 我知道了。
I got it! 我知道了。
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs〔白雪公主和七矮人〕
I got it. 我猜对了。
I got it. 我猜对了。
Frank, you got it. Frank，你猜对了。
Betty, you had it, but you didn't say it. Betty，你知道答案，但是你没有说出来。
I knew it. 我现在知道了 。
Carl, now you know charades. Carl，现在你知道什么是哑谜了。
Why don't you join us? 你何不参加入我们的游戏呢？
I don't like charades. 我不喜欢哑谜。
It's for babies. 这是给婴儿玩的。
Oh, I like it. 噢，我喜欢哑谜。
Well, they're babies. 嗯，他们都是婴儿。
You're a sore loser. 你是个输不起的家伙。
Yeah. 对。
No arguing. 别争了。
Save your voices. 留着点嗓子。
Between now and tomorrow 从现在起到明天
you're all going to have your tonsils out. 你们都要切除扁桃腺。
And you won't be able to speak for a while. 有一段时间，你们没有办法讲话。
So save your voices till then. 所以，省着点嗓子。
Hi, gang. Hi, everybody. 嗨，各位。
Well, what's going on? 噢，怎么啦？
I sure I am glad to see you, Dr. Stewart. 真高兴见到你来，Stewart大夫。
This is a rough group. 这是一群粗野的孩子。
I didn't want to play charades, 我不想玩哑谜。
so they're angry at me. 所以他们生我的气。?
Why don't you want to play? 你为什么不玩？
Because I don't want to be here. 因为我不想呆在这儿。
I don't want my tonsils out. 我不想切除扁桃腺。
Why not? 为什么不想？
Because my birthday is tomorrow. 因为明天是我的生日。
My mother promised me a birthday party with a clown. 我妈妈答应给我安排一个有小丑的生日派对。
But you can have one when you go home, Carl. 但你回去以后还可以办一个呀，Carl。
But my birthday is tomorrow. 但是我的生日就在明天。
I'm sorry, Carl. 很抱歉，Carl。
Carl, you'll have your party when you go home, Carl，你回去以后就可以开个生日派对了。
But it won't be on my birthday! 但那就不是在我生日那天了！
And you promised me a surprise. 而且你答应给我一个惊喜。

口语讲解

二.口语讲解

1.Frank, you've never played charades?

用陈述的语序表示疑问句，在口语中经常这样用，只是句尾要读升调。

2.Carl, you join in at any time.

join in加入。通常会用:Will you join us?来邀请别人加入自己的活动。

3.Absolutely right, Frank.

对别人的说法表示赞同，说明别人的说法正确，可以用Absolutely right来表示。

4.No arguing.

不要争吵，经常用No+动名词形式表示禁止做某事。比如在某些场合会写着:No smoking.禁止吸烟。No swimming.禁止游泳。

5.And you promised me a surprise.

promise sb sth许诺给某人某物。promise to do sth许诺做某事。

美国文化介绍

三.美国文化介绍

我们在学英语的过程中，无论是老师还是其他朋友经常告诉我们，学习一种语言，不只要学其语言，还要学其文化。现在就了解一下本文中出现的一些美国特色的文化吧！

1．美国医疗费用昂贵，看一次普通门诊（感冒等），要花上七八十美元，治疗一颗蛀牙，更可能要花百元以上。另外在就医之前，必须先预约时间，而且往往一约就是一两星期以后，缓不济急，因此一般人对普通小病，都不看，而是自购成药（non-prescription medicine）服用，但许多药却是须由医生处方才能买到的（by prescription only），只好花钱看病了。

2．私人医疗保险费率也很昂贵，一般四口之家，每月保险都要一二百元，而且看病时还要负担一千美元左右的“自付额”，因此全美国还有三分之一以上的家庭买不起医疗保险。

阅读素材

四、阅读素材

Health Care in the United States

In recent years, health care spending in the United States has grown to fifteen percent of the economy. The care is often described as the best in the world, but the cost is a big problem.

Forty years ago, a Chicago businessman had an operation for cancer. Doctors could offer no further treatment. The cancer spread. The man died about a year later. His medical care cost about ten-thousand dollars.

Six years ago, an office administrator in Washington, D.C., had an operation for cancer. Later she had treatment with radiation and powerful chemicals. Today she feels fine. Her doctors say she will probably live many more years. But her care cost several hundred thousand dollars.

Medical science today saves many more lives. But this can also mean major debt. Government programs provide health insurance to the poor and elderly.

Others depend on private insurance. Companies guarantee to pay part or all of the costs of care. But the more the policy covers, the higher the price.

Around sixty percent of working Americans have health insurance through their jobs. Their employers usually pay at least part of the cost. But, as those costs increase, employers feel the pressure.

The Department of Health and Human Services reported this month on health care spending for two-thousand-two. It says spending rose nine percent that year, to one-point-six million-million dollars. Health costs per person averaged more than five-thousand-four-hundred dollars.

Some employers no longer offer health coverage. Others have increased the share paid by their employees.

Getting insurance can be difficult for those who work only part time. The same is true for people who are already sick.

Some Americans have no health insurance. The Census Bureau says fifteen percent of the population had no coverage in two-thousand-two. The number was forty-three-point-six million people.

Last week a committee of experts called for health coverage for all by two-thousand-ten. The report was from the Institute of Medicine, one of the National Academies. The report says about eighteen-thousand people each year die unnecessarily because of lack of insurance.

The experts also estimated how much money the United States loses as a result of poor health and early deaths of uninsured adults. The estimate is between sixty-five-thousand-million and one-hundred-thirty-thousand million dollars a year.

A top official in the Bush administration, however, says it is not realistic to expect universal health coverage by two-thousand-ten.Some uninsured people get care at university teaching hospitals. A number of religious and humanitarian agencies like the Salvation Army offer free or low-cost care.But hospital emergency rooms are where many poor people go even for minor problems. This adds to hospital costs.

The largest number of poor get medical help through public programs at several levels of government. The federal government and the states jointly offer an insurance program called Medicaid. States also administer a program to aid children whose families earn too much to receive Medicaid.

However, budget problems have led some states to reduce their services. Florida, for example, has thousands on a waiting list for the State Children's Health Insurance Program there.

Another issue for a lot of people is the cost of prescription medicine, drugs only a doctor can order. Drug companies say new medicines cost a lot to develop and market.The industry notes that about one-tenth of every dollar spent on health care in the United States goes to prescription medicines. It says these drugs represent only a small part of health care spending.

Both major political parties have offered plans to improve the health care system.

The candidates for the Democratic nomination for president have proposed their own ideas. And President Bush recently won approval of big changes to Medicare. Medicare is the government insurance program for people age sixty-five and older. It also helps pay for some younger people who are disabled.

Congress approved Medicare in nineteen-sixty-five. Lyndon Johnson was president. Johnson proposed Medicare as one of the social reforms in a plan he called the Great Society.

President Bush signed the Medicare reform act in December. The bill received the support of an influential activist group. The group is called AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons. Members of AARP are age fifty and older. As the nation gets older, voters get older. So this issue is important politically.

Parts of the new law will take effect at different times. Forty-million elderly or disabled people will receive help to buy medicine, starting in two-thousand-six. And seniors will get a chance to establish tax-free health accounts to save money for future care.

The cost of the new Medicare law is estimated at four-hundred-thousand-million dollars over ten years. Critics say that is too much. Labor unions and other groups also argue that the changes are better for drug companies than for seniors. Supporters of the new Medicare act say this is not true. They say it is important that seniors will get their first help from Medicare to pay for medicine.

The new law also lets private health plans and insurance companies play a bigger part in Medicare. Opponents say letting these companies compete with the government will damage the system. They say seniors will pay more, not less. Supporters say competition means better choices.

Under the new Medicare law, patients will have choices about their drug plan. They can stay in traditional Medicare for their doctor and hospital costs, and choose a drug policy to go with this. Or, they can join a completely private plan. This would pay for hospital treatment and doctors in addition to medicines.

Wealthier Medicare patients are to pay more than others for their medicines. But the poorest seniors would pay only a few dollars for each prescription.When some Americans buy medicine, they do not go to the local drugstore. Some travel to Canada or Mexico to save money. Others use the Internet to order prescription drugs from Canadian suppliers. Canada negotiates for and buys large amounts of American-made drugs. Prices controls in Canada mean that drugs often cost much less there. Some people think this drives up American drug costs.

The United States Food and Drug Administration says importing drugs is dangerous and illegal. It says this is true even if the drugs are re-imported. That is, they were made in America and then shipped for sale outside the country.

But some public officials in the United States say they, too, will try to save money. Officials in Boston, Massachusetts, say they will buy drugs from Canada for seven-thousand current and retired city employees. The governor of New Hampshire says his state will use medicine from Canada for prisoners and poor people.

Another state, Illinois, has appealed to the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington. Illinois wants to import drugs from Canada legally. Illinois officials argue that the new Medicare law permits this if the drugs meet American safety requirements.

Tom Daschle of South Dakota leads the Democratic minority in the Senate. Senator Daschle says the new Medicare law is bad legislation. He says seniors will demand many changes.

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California was among Democrats who voted for the law. Senator Feinstein called it a step in the right direction. The president of A-A-R-P had stronger praise. He says it represents a victory for older citizens.

What do those people think? Many would probably agree with this retired nurse from Rockville, Maryland. She says: "We will find out when the changes take effect."