美語情景對話 第646期:Rocky Recovers 洛基康復

Adrienne: What was it like to take her to the vet?

埃德里安娜：帶洛基去看獸醫時發生了什麼？

Lisa: Taking her to the vet was incredibly scary because it was obvious that there was something wrong, and it was probably six or seven o'clock in the morning so it was very early. I didn't know where there was an emergency vet, so I called a couple of friends, woke them up, and made them help me, made them help me find an emergency vet that would service us and finally we found one. Took her there, and it happened to be the most expensive vet in the city, so we went into the vet, and they took x-rays and after about two or three hours they said that they were going to hold her for observation, but they said her condition was quite serious and that she would probably need to have an operation. After two days of her staying in the vet, the doctor confirmed that she was going to need and operation, and the operation was going to cost three thousand dollars.

莉莎：帶它去看獸醫時非常嚇人，因爲明顯能感覺到它受了傷，當時是清晨六點或七點左右。我不知道哪裏有獸醫急診，所以我給幾個朋友打電話，叫醒他們，讓他們幫我找獸醫急診，最後我們找到了一家急診。我們帶洛基去了那裏，那剛好是那座城市裏最貴的獸醫院，我們進去以後，他們給洛基拍了X光，兩三個小時以後他們說洛基要留在醫院觀察，不過他們說洛基的傷勢非常嚴重，可能要動手術。洛基在獸醫院待了兩天以後，醫生確診它需要進行手術，手術費是3000美元。

Adrienne: Oh, my goodness.

埃德里安娜：哦，我的天哪。

Lisa: Not only that, those two days in the vet cost fifteen hundred dollars, so at that time I had just moved out. I didn't have a lot of cash, so I went to... I took Rocky to a vet where her friend takes her animals to and he kept her there for observation and said that if the cat is able to eventually go to the bathroom on her own, the cat will recover and heal herself, and there won't be a need for an operation, so I was very concerned that, first of all, she wouldn't be able to go to the bathroom, and if she couldn't then I would have to put her to sleep, so after ten days, she recovered incredibly well, she was trying to start and walk again. It was obvious that she was going to survive and a year later she is a very energetic, slightly crazy, like you can never tell she fell off a balcony four stories.

莉莎：不僅僅是這樣，洛基留在獸醫院觀察的那幾天花了1500美元，所以當時我就帶洛基離開了那家醫院。因爲我沒有那麼多現金，之後我帶洛基去了我朋友帶她的寵物去的獸醫診所，把洛基留在那裏觀察，他們說如果洛基能自己去衛生間，那它就能自己康復，不用進行手術，所以我非常擔心，因爲首先，它不能自己去衛生間，如果它一直不能做到自己上衛生間，那我只能讓它安樂死，不過十天以後，洛基恢復的非常好，它開始重新走路了。顯然這表明它會活下來，一年之後，它已經充滿活力，不過稍微有些瘋狂，你絕對想不到它曾經從四樓的陽臺摔了下去。

Adrienne: Four stories she fell.

埃德里安娜：它是從四樓摔下去的。

Lisa: Four stories.

莉莎：對，四樓。

Adrienne: Wow, I wouldn't have guessed it. She looks very healthy now.

埃德里安娜：哇，真是看不出來。它現在非常健康。

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重點講解：
1. happen to do sth. 碰巧；湊巧；
例句：We happen to hold the same view.
我們兩人的想法不謀而合。
2. on one's own 獨立地；依靠自己地；
例句：All employees who move into supervisory positions must figure it out on their own.
所有打算競爭管理崗位的員工必須完全依靠自己完成。
3. first of all 第一；首先；
例句：First of all, machines had no hardware problems.
首先，機器沒有硬件毛病。
4. put to sleep 使（尤指有病或有傷的動物）無痛苦地死去；使長眠；
例句：I'm going take the dog down to the vet's and have her put to sleep.
我要把小狗帶到獸醫那裏，讓她安樂死。
5. fall off 脫落，掉落；
例句：Mary scrape her knee when she fall off her bike.
瑪麗從腳踏車上摔下來擦傷了膝蓋。