地道美语听力播客610:流行病

Rebecca: You look exhausted! Another tough day at the daycare center?

丽贝卡：你看起来很累，在日托中心有度过了辛苦的一天?

Puneet: Yeah, it was. This is a record year for the kids getting sick. The chicken pox is going around. Last year, it was the measles. The year before that, it was the mumps. This year, it’s the chicken pox.

普奈特：是啊，确实很累。今年是孩子们得病最多的一年。现在水痘病菌流行，去年是麻疹，前年是腮腺炎

Rebecca: You sent the kids home, right?

丽贝卡：你要送孩子回家是吗?

Puneet: Yeah, but today, a couple of the kids looked like they have pink eye, and I had to call their parents to let them know.

普奈特：是的，但是今天有几个孩子的眼睛看起来变红了，我必须打电话给他们的父母让他们知道。

Rebecca: What happened to simple nosebleeds and earaches?

丽贝卡：只是简单的流鼻血和耳朵疼是怎么回事呢?

Puneet: Oh, we have kids with those, too, but it’s the contagious diseases that really take its toll. I’m not sure, but I think one of the little kids has strep throat, and a couple of the really little kids have croup. I wish there were a way to immunize all of them from every illness and disease out there.

普奈特：哦，我们也有孩子那样，但是接触性传染病真的危害很大。我不是很确定，但是我认为这些孩子中有一个患有脓毒性咽喉炎，有几个小点的孩子患有哮吼。我希望有一种办法可以让他们所有人免受外面疾病的伤害。

Rebecca: Are you sure you’re working in a daycare center?

丽贝卡：你确定你在日托中心工作吗?

Puneet: Yeah, why?

普奈特：当然确定啊，为什么这么问?

Rebecca: Because it just sounds like you’re working at the Center for Disease Control. Tomorrow, I suggest wearing a gas mask to work.

丽贝卡：因为听起来你像是在疾病控制中心工作。我建议明天穿防毒面具去工作。