节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2014-02-28
难易度:Medium
关键字:operation, objection, recovery, church service
Hello, everyone.
My name is Gabe.
And I'm Carolyn.
And you are watching Studio Classroom.
It's the last day of February, 2014.
And it's also the last day of our lesson about Super Junior's youngest singer
Kyuhyun.
And if you were able to join us for yesterday's lesson, you know that it ended
with a cliffhanger.
We all had the questions: How does the story end? What happened to Kyuhyun?
Well, Gabe, we hope to find an answer to those questions in the story about the
miracle of a second life.
I think we will find out what a second life means in today's part of the story.
So what are we waiting for?
Open up your magazine and let's get started.
(Music).
Super Junior's Kyuhyun.
At the hospital, the doctor told his father: "Your child is dying.
We must open a hole in his throat to help his breathing.
But even with the operation, the survival rate is less than 20 percent." But his
father objected.
"My child has to sing. He is a singer, and that's his dream.
If you open a hole in his throat, it would take away his dream.
Even if he lives afterward, how could he go on living?" In spite of the doctor's
objection, Kyuhyun's father refused.
(Music).
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.
(Chinese).
Thank you, Michelle.
Well, by the end of this first section, we still don't know if Kyuhyun is going
to be OK.
But we do have a lot of English points to talk about before we continue with the
story.
Yes. Today's story begins in the hospital with the doctor telling Kyuhyun's
father something nobody ever wants to hear: Your child is dying.
Oh, dying is such a depressing word, but it doesn't mean there is no hope.
Now I don't know what the situation really was with Kyuhyun, but the word
"dying" can mean different things to different people.
Right. For some people, if they know someone is about to go, then they use the
word.
But for others, they feel like the day we are born, we start dying.
I guess in Kyuhyun's situation, it's between those two extremes.
The doctor wasn't sure, but the situation really didn't look good.
Now aside from the idea of death, the word "dying" can be used in other ways.
For example, something could die down.
That means it loses its strength or gets less exciting.
So you could go to a party that is really exciting, and when the music dies
down, everyone starts to go home.
Or maybe you need to go home, but there is a terrible storm outside.
You want to wait until the wind and rain die down before you go outside.
So try to use that phrase "die down" today.
Now back to Kyuhyun's story.
The doctor said he was dying, and so they must open up a hole in his throat to
help his breathing.
Now I've seen pictures of this before, some people have holes in their throats.
Actually, I know of a commercial against smoking.
The speaker in this commercial had a hole in his throat because he smoked too
much, and the hole was put there to help him survive.
Well, it sounds like an effective commercial.
Nobody wants to have a hole in their throats.
You want to be able to breathe naturally.
And right now Steve and Ken are waiting in the Information Cloud to tell us more
about this little word "breathe." Let's go there now.
Hello, friends.
If you're a regular Info Cloud listener, you'll know that every once in a while,
we focus on the very basic point in English.
Why? Because sometimes it's the most basic things that confuse us.
And today is one of those times.
Let's look at the words breathe and breath.
Now writers occasionally confuse these two words because there's only one tiny
difference between them - the letter E.
Yes. The word breathe has an E at the end of it.
When you see the word spelled B-R-E-A-T-H-E, you should know it's pronounced
breathe.
Hey, what do you know?
The main vowel sound of "breathe" is a long E.
So just remember the E at the end of "breathe" gives the word the long E sound.
If you are very nervous or scared, I will tell you to just relax and breathe.
Inhale and exhale.
And breathe is a verb.
To stay alive, we must breathe.
Now take away that E, and we have breath, which is a noun, and it refers to the
air that is either inhaled or exhaled during breathing.
Wait a minute, Steve.
The word breathing is a verb, but there's no E at the end of it.
Good point, Ken.
When it's in the -ing form, we drop the E at the end.
(Chinese).
Thank you, gentlemen.
Well, let's get back to what the doctor was saying.
He wanted to open a hole in Kyuhyun's throat to help his breathing.
But even with the operation, the survival rate is less than 20 percent.
Wow, less than 20 percent survival rate.
The survival rate is the chance that someone will survive or live through a
situation.
This can be serious.
For example, you could go online and find out the survival rate for someone with
a certain kind of disease,
that is you would find out how many people who had that disease died, and how
many lived past it and got better.
You can also use the term "survival rate" to joke about less serious things.
For instance, you could say that restaurant makes food so spicy, everyone who
eats there has upset stomachs afterward.
The survival rate is zero.
Ah, so that means nobody can come out of that restaurant without feeling bad.
Well, that is, of course, using this phrase to joke around a bit about
something.
But Kyuhyun's situation was no joke.
Only 20 percent of people who have his problem survive.
But we read next that his father objected.
What did he object to?
He objected to the operation to open a hole in his son's throat.
A couple sentences later we see the word objection.
Object is the verb, and an objection is the noun.
I often hear the word "object" in movies that have to do with legal issues where
there are courtroom scenes.
A lawyer might be trying to argue his case, and someone says: I object! or
Objection!
In that situation, it could mean the person disapproves of what the lawyer is
saying.
And it looks like Kyuhyun's dad objects to what this doctor wants to do.
He says: My child has to sing. Even if he lives after the operation, how could
he go on living?
Wow. Things are getting pretty emotional in the operating room.
I'm sure this was a father-son bonding time.
Now let's look at some words here: live and go on living.
Yes. They seem to mean the same thing, but they are a little bit different.
The first word "live" means survive or to keep living after the operation.
The phrase "to go on living" means something more, to live with a purpose and
passion for your life.
So it's possible to live, to breathe and move and so on but not have passion for
something.
That is what Kyuhyun's father is afraid of.
And so he refuses to let the doctor operate on his son's throat.
Well, we will see what happens next after this.