美語情景對話 第981期:Doctor Dreams 醫生夢

Todd: So hey Josh, how you doing?

託德：嗨，喬什，你怎麼樣？

Josh: I'm good. How are you?

喬什：我很好。你好嗎？

Todd: Oh, doing pretty good. Josh, how old are you?

託德：哦，我很好。喬什，你多大了？

Josh: I am 17.

喬什：我17歲。

Todd: 17, so you're kind of at the start of your life.

託德：17歲，你的人生纔剛剛開始。

Josh: Yeah, I guess you could say that.

喬什：對，我猜到你會這麼說。

Todd: That's pretty awesome. So what do you want to be in the future? Like what are your plans?

託德：這太棒了。你未來想做什麼？你有什麼計劃？

Josh: Well obviously, I want to go to college and after college I've thought about going to optometry school to become an eye doctor.

喬什：顯然，我要上大學，大學畢業後我想去視光學校，以後當眼科醫生。

Todd: Wow! An eye doctor.

託德：哇哦！眼科醫生。

Josh: Yeah.

喬什：對。

Todd: What is it that made you would want to be an eye doctor?

託德：你爲什麼想當眼科醫生？

Josh: I guess it kind of started when I was really little and I got glasses for the first time. And when I got those glasses, you know I put them on and I really needed them. And no one found out that I needed them very quickly and so when I first put them on, I looked around and everything was so much crisper. And I think my mom always says that when I looked around I said, “Mom, I can see the trees and I can see all the branches. And it's so cool”. And she didn't realize how badly I needed them until right then, but that moment I always will remember that. And then the other reason is that my cousin has had lots of eye problems and ended up going blind in one eye. And I remember asking him to go to a 3D movie with me one time and he said, "I can't because you need two eyes to see 3D." And I loved 3D movies at that point so I felt so bad for him that he couldn't see a 3D movie. And that was ... that kind of made me feel like I needed to fix people's eyes.

喬什：我想是在我很小的時候，在我一開始戴眼鏡的時候有了這種想法。我拿到眼鏡戴上以後，我發現我真的很需要眼鏡。沒有人馬上就發現我很需要眼鏡，當我戴上眼鏡以後，我四處看了看，我發現所有的一切都更清晰了。我媽媽一直在說，我環顧四周的時候跟她說：“媽媽，我可以看到樹了，我可以看到所有的樹枝。這太酷了。”直到那時她才發現我有多需要眼鏡，不過我會一直記得那個時刻。我要當眼科醫生的另一個原因是，我表哥有很多眼部疾病，這導致他的一隻眼睛失明瞭。我記得有一次我請他和我一起去看3D電影，可是他說：“我不能去，因爲看3D電影需要兩隻眼睛。”當時我非常喜歡3D電影，所以我認爲他看不了3D電影非常糟糕。那讓我覺得我應該去治療人們的眼睛。

Todd: That's a great story. So you've wanted to be an eye doctor for some time?

託德：這真是個很棒的故事。所以你想當眼科醫生這個想法已經有一段時間了。

Josh: Yeah, ever since I was basically six.

喬什：對，從我6歲開始。

Todd: So are you doing things right now to help prepare yourself to get into college and become a doctor?

託德：那你現在做的事情是在爲進入大學然後成爲醫生做準備嗎？

Josh: Absolutely, just I've researched the classes that I should take to be able to make it that far. And so I'm taking those classes and doing everything I can to get in that direction.

喬什：當然了，我剛剛研究了我應該參加哪些課程才能達成目標。我準備上這些課程，做任何能讓我朝那個方向前進的事情。

Todd: Oh wow, that's great.

託德：哦哇，太棒了。

Josh: Looking at schools and everything.

喬什：我正在研究學校。

Todd: Now, I think you mentioned that you're actually taking online classes through MIT? And you're in high school.

託德：我想你提到過你正在上麻省理工學院的網絡課程，對吧？你現在還在上高中。

Josh: Yeah, that's right. I'm just looking at them, they're free to do so you can watch the videos whichever ones you want. And they're really interesting, the professors at MIT are really cool.

喬什：對，沒錯。我正在收看這些課程，因爲這類課程可以免費收看。這非常有意思，麻省理工學院的教授非常棒。

Todd: Well that's great! So your parents must be really proud?

託德：真不錯！你父母一定感到很自豪吧？

Josh: I don't know about that, I hope so.

喬什：這我不知道，不過我希望如此。

Todd: So do you have a fallback plan like if you were not able to become an eye doctor, would there be another profession you would be interested in?

託德：你有沒有後備計劃，如果你沒能成爲眼科醫生的話，你還有其他感興趣的職業嗎？

Josh: Recently I've been looking at biomedical engineering as well.

喬什：最近我也在關注生物醫學工程。

Todd: What is that, biomedical engineering?

託德：什麼是生物醫學工程？

Josh: Biomedical engineering, well, it's engineering like anything, so building things but with the biomedical part means that you build things that interact with the human body. So for example, the new Google's goggles or glasses, those are actually developed partly by biomedical engineers who just help to create the fit and make sure they wouldn't cause headaches or injuries or anything like that. And then also heart stents or any medical device like a heart rate monitor or a prosthetic, those are all made by biomedical engineers.

喬什：生物醫學工程……工程就是指建造的意思，生物醫學指的是創造出和人體相互作用的東西。比如，谷歌新出的護目鏡和眼鏡，這些就是生物醫學工程師開發出來的東西，作用是幫助創造適合人體的東西，並確保這些東西不會引發頭疼或其他傷痛。另外，心臟支架或是心率監視器和假肢等醫療設備，這些都是生物醫學工程師製造出來的。

Todd: Oh wow, that sounds like an interesting field.

託德：哦哇哦，聽起來這是個很有趣的領域。

Josh: Yeah, for sure.

喬什：對，當然了。

Todd: Well, good luck with your career, I hope it all pans out.

託德：好，希望你事業順利，我希望你能成功。

Josh: Thank you.

喬什：謝謝。

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重點講解：
1. put on 穿；戴；塗；抹；
例句：The old man put on his spectacles and started reading.
老人戴上眼鏡開始看書。
2. end up 最終；結果；到頭來；
例句：If you always try to cock the boy up in this way, you might end up spoiling him.
你如果老是這樣縱容這個男孩，到頭來會把他慣壞的。
3. ever since 自從；打…以後一直；
例句：He has been losing flesh ever since the death of his wife.
自他妻子死後，他日漸消瘦。
4. interact with 相互作用；相互影響；
例句：The two chemicals interact with each other.
這兩種化學物品相互作用。
5. pan out 取得進展；有成果；成功；
例句：one of Morgan's proposed financings panned out.
摩根建議的籌資方法均未奏效。