新概念英语第四册35-02

课文...The majority of the patients attending the medical out-patients departments of our hospitals feel that they have not received adequate treatment unless they are able to carry Home with them some tangible remedy in the shape of a bottle of Medicine, a box of pills, or a small jar of ointment, ...

emergency ：急诊

adequate treatment： 足够的护理

unless ... 引导条件句

unless ...= if not...

tangible ： 实实在在的

in the shape of …： 以...这种形式

My works appear in the shape of poesy.

My works appear in the form of poesy.

pills： 药丸

tablet： 药片

dose ：药剂，一剂药

ointment ：药膏

接下来课文...and the doctor in charge of the department is only too ready to provide them with these requirements. ...

the doctor in charge of the department ：主任医生

only too ：非常（注意不是否定的意义）

接下来课文...There is no quicker method of disposing of patients than by giving them what they are asking for, ...

no + 比较级 = 最高级

disposing of patients ：打发病人

he could not come at better time. 他来得正是时候。

接下来课文...and since most medical men in the health Services are overworked and have little time for offering time-consuming and little-appreciated advice on such subjects as diet, ...

since ：表示原因

overwork ：超负荷，工作太忙

little-appreciated ：不受欢迎

time-consuming： 浪费时间

energy-consuming： 费力

money-consuming ：浪费钱

body-building ：健身