Travel Sickness
旅途不適
Jerry and Sylvia have just arrived at their destination in Nepal.
J:Jerry S:Sylvia G:Guide
S:Will you just look at how beautiful the views are here?
J:Uh-huh. I'll take your word for it.
S:You don't look so good. How are you holding up?
J:I'm not. I'm really dizzy, have a bad headache, and feel like throwing up.
S:That doesn't sound right. Let's go ask the guide to get you some medical help.
(They go up to the tour guide and explain what is wrong.)
G:Jerry is in a really bad state, but I've seen these symptoms before.
S:I'm really worried. What's going on with him?
G:He's got a case of altitude sickness. It happens a lot because we increased our elevation pretty quickly on the train ride here.
J:I think I need to sit down.
中譯
傑瑞和西薇亞剛抵達他們在尼泊爾的目的地。
西薇亞:你能不能稍微欣賞一下這裡有多美?
傑瑞:嗯。我想妳的話有道理。
西薇亞:你臉色不太好耶。你還好嗎?
傑瑞:我不舒服。我的頭又暈又痛,感覺好像快要吐了。
西薇亞:聽起來不大對勁。咱們去請導遊給你些醫療協助。
(他們去找導遊說明遇到的問題。)
導遊:傑瑞的狀況真的很糟,不過我以前就看過這類的症狀了。
西薇亞:我真的很擔心。他怎麼了?
導遊:他得了高山症。這很常見,因為火車行進間,我們海拔增加的速度相當快。
傑瑞:我想我需要坐下來。
高山症,或稱高地綜合症、高山反應、高原反應, 英文:Altitude sickness, acute mountain sickness (AMS) 是人體在高海拔狀態由於氧氣濃度降低而出現的急性病理變化表現。它通常出現在海拔2500公尺以上(約8000英呎)。高山症可以發展成肺水腫(HAPE, high altitude pulmonary oedema)和腦水腫(HACE, high altitude cerebral oedema),嚴重時可致死。
另一個較稀少的高海拔相關疾患,是因為慢性處於高山中而形成慢性高山症,又稱蒙格氏病 (Monge's disease)。
尼泊爾聯邦民主共和國是位於南亞喜馬拉雅山中段南麓的內陸國家,版圖呈長方形,略呈西北-東南走向,東西寬約850公里,南北寬約200公里,北部與中國接壤,西、南、東三面為印度所環繞。地勢北高南低,北部為高山,中部為山區和河谷,南部是平原,相對高度差之大為世界所罕見。最高點為北部中尼邊境上的珠穆朗瑪峰(尼方稱薩加瑪塔峰),同時也是世界最高峰。另外,全球14座八千米以上山峰中有8座位於尼泊爾境內及其邊境上。
生活必備字詞:
1. I'll take your word for it 我相信你的話(我完全同意你的看法)
I'll take your word = I take your point
2. How are you holding up? 還好嗎?
用在已知對方經歷悲傷或辛苦的情事…
如對方家中發生不幸,或是最近工作上不順
就會用 "How are you holding up?" 來表達關心
3. dizzy [ˋdɪzɪ] a. 頭暈目眩的
4. throw up 嘔吐 throw – threw – thrown – throwing
He took the medicine but threw it up a minute later.
(他服了藥了, 但一分鐘後就吐了出來。)
5. symptom [ˋsɪmptəm] n. 症狀, 徵候[(+of)]
6. what's goin on? 發生什麼事了?
這句話是在遇到狀況(通常指負面狀況)時所用的提問句
6. altitude [ˋæltə͵tjud]
n. 高, 高度; 海拔
The plane was then flying at an altitude of 8000 feet.
(當時飛機在八千英尺的高度飛行。)
n. 高處, 高地
He found it difficult to breathe at high altitudes.
(他覺得在高空呼吸困難。)
7. elevation [͵ɛləˋveʃən] n. 高度; 海拔[C]