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【今日对话】

今天的内容选自美剧《豪斯医生》第六季 House M.D. Season6的对话：

A: And what's going on with Marina? She hasn't called me back.

玛丽娜是怎么回事呢? 她不回我电话。

B: She was gonna call. I told her I'd let you know everything was okay.

她本来要回电来的。我告诉她我会告诉你一切都好的

A: So her fever broke?

那么说她的烧退了

B: What exactly does that mean, "When a fever breaks"?

“如果烧退了”那么又意味着什么呢？

A: Lucas, I'm very busy. Does she have a fever or not?

卢卡斯，我非常的忙。她到底发烧了还是没发烧

B: No, she doesn't have a fever.

没，她没发烧。

⭐精讲部分⭐

1.what’s going on with…? …怎么了？

What’s going on with Eric? He doesn’t seem quite himself today.

Eric怎么回事呢？感觉他不是很舒服的样子。

2.call sb back 给某人回电话

I’ll call you back when I get home.

我回到家就给你回电话。

3.“退烧”的不同表达方式：

sb’s fever breaks.

sb’s fever is broken.

sb’s fever is gone.

sb’s fever has come down.

bring down sb’s fever 让某人退烧

4.have a fever 发烧

People tend to have a high fever when get infected with the virus.

人们感染这种病毒后往往会发高烧。