2012公共英语一级考试阅读难点指导一

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I'm going to have a physical
5 Y3 \  E4 |+ m, ~: o# m预防胜于治疗，要有效预防疾病，医生常建议我们定期做身体检查，英文可以说：I'm going to have a physical (我去做身体检查)，体检也可叫做：A physical check-up/ a medical或body check。
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, ]( I' H( |6 J. cHusband: Honey, it's Saturday night and you know what that means.
. h# z5 T' V; C% ?) T/ P: uWife: Sorry, I've got to go out.
8 ^- h# L6 H6 BHusband: Where are you going at this hour?
! U0 b! `" a8 D& }Wife: To the all- night doctor's clinic. I'm going to have a physical .
& j8 ~* n) `2 u2 o3 B8 x$ ?Something's wrong.
5 [6 B. p% p: n( ]6 [. w  K. f1 jHusband: I'll say. I was hoping to get a little physical myself. HURRY!
丈夫: 甜心，现在是星期六晚上，你知道是什么意思吗？
妻子: 对不起，我要出去了。
丈夫: 这个时候你要去哪里?
; ^. I1 S1 D6 N$ P妻子: 我要去通宵看诊的诊所做身体检查，身体有点不对劲。
( _+ s' f4 {; X7 m9 ~* \丈夫: 我同意，我还想跟你亲热一下，赶快去吧！
丈夫晚上问妻子：Where are you going at this hour?（这个时候你要去哪里？）妻子说：I'm going to have a physical（我要去检查身体。）丈夫有些失望说：I was hoping to get a little physical myself（我还想和你亲热一下呢！）
+ X9 @2 x) ~- L( Z4 c8 {Physical是‘身体的'或‘肉体的'，所以‘体育'叫physical education。身体检查美式英文叫physical examination，英式则叫medical examination，俗语简称为physical或medical。此外，还有health/medical checkup、health/medical check等说法，例如：(1) You have to pass a physical before getting the employment contract（你要身体检查合格，才可获得聘用合约）。(2) If you are having intense abdominal pains, you had better go to your doctor for a checkup（假如你腹痛剧烈，最好找医生检查一下身体）。
又由于physical有‘肉体'的意思，俚语常以get physical来说‘肉体接触'，包括性爱、爱抚等，例如：The very first time he dated Mary, he tried to get physical（他第一次和玛丽约会，就想动手动脚）。上文那丈夫说I was hoping to get a little physical，当然是语带双关，把‘身体检查'变做‘亲热一下'。
留意at this hour的说法。这三字一般带‘这么早/晚，怎么还……'的惊讶或不高兴含义，例如：(1) Why are you still working at this hour of night?（这么晚了，你怎么还在工作？）(2) Who can be knocking at the door at this early/late hour?（这么早/晚，谁在敲门呢？）