2016专八听力interview练习（31）

2016专八听力interview练习（31）

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　　葡萄柚汁影响药物疗效

　　A warning about health and your medication today, new proof that a staple1 in the American kitchen’s grapefruit can trigger an overdose of popular drugs, a startling headline for millions of　Americans. And ABC’s chief medical editor Doctor Richard Besser. Here’s your answers. Richard, grapefruit, grapefruit.

　　That’s right. That’s right.

　　It’s all about pills, grapefruit, a problem you don’t need to have. Grapefruit can have curable reactions with certain medications and the list of drugs that is involved has been growing. Just 5 years ago, there were only 17 drugs to worry about it, now that’s going up to 85. And take a look what drugs those are: Statins & heart drugs, sleeping pills, antibiotics2, seizure3medications, anti-cancer drugs, a long list.

　　And it’s just eating the grapefruit or as its juice along, which is it?

　　It will. It is grape all, grapefruit, grapefruit is the forbidden fruit. It’s a.

　　Whether eat it or drink it as juice.

　　That’s right. It’s that a bitter emission4 grapefruit. They cause the problem. Take a look at this. Just drink one glass of a grapefruit or eating one grapefruit is enough to have the effect and it can last for up to 24 hours. So you’d have to feed grapefruit hours before and after your pill, you still can have the problem. The chemical in grapefruit mixed drug more potent5 by preventing your body from breaking the drug down. It basically gave you an overdose of the drug. And the effect can be horrible. It can stop your heart, it can damage your kidneys, serious problems.

　　So a list of the medication that we can do this.

　　We have that on abcnews.com. Look at the list, look at the drugs and if you have any on there, talk to your doctor and stop beating grapefruit.

　　OK, thank you, Richard Besser, a big warning out tonight.

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　　1 staple

　　n.主要产物，常用品，主要要素，原料，订书钉，钩环;adj.主要的，重要的;vt.分类

　　参考例句：

　　Tea is the staple crop here.本地产品以茶叶为大宗。

　　Potatoes are the staple of their diet.土豆是他们的主要食品。

　　2 antibiotics

　　n.(用作复数)抗生素;(用作单数)抗生物质的研究;抗生素，抗菌素( antibiotic的名词复数 )

　　参考例句：

　　the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现

　　The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。

　　3 seizure

　　n.没收;占有;抵押

　　参考例句：

　　The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。

　　The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。

　　4 emission

　　n.发出物，散发物;发出，散发

　　参考例句：

　　Rigorous measures will be taken to reduce the total pollutant emission.采取严格有力措施，降低污染物排放总量。

　　Finally,the way to effectively control particulate emission is pointed out.最后，指出有效降低颗粒排放的方向。

　　5 potent

　　adj.强有力的，有权势的;有效力的

　　参考例句：

　　The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.这药物对你的病疗效很大。

　　We must account of his potent influence.我们必须考虑他的强有力的影响。

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