BEC listen and translation exercise 37

You're supposed to do that before 10.30 in the morning, but obviously, if it's an emergency, you can phone at any time, night or day.

He writes what medication you need on it and you take it to a chemist's shop.

If it's for a child under 16, you don't have to pay.

You pay the same price for each item the doctor has prescribed.

I'll be honest with you. At the end of the first year I really wanted to leave and come home.

I was very homesick at first and missed my family.

We set up a very successful project breeding cattle to sell locally.

And then after a lot of hard work we finally got funds for new farm buildings.

I've had a couple of jobs since then but I now realise I like teaching best.
自那之后我做过几份工作，但现在我才意识到我最喜欢教书。

In fact, bad backs are one of the most common health problems today, affecting people in all walks of life.

The most recent available figures show that about a quarter of a million people are incapacitated with back pain every day.
最新的可用数据表明，每天大约有二十五万人因背痛不能行动。

The majority of our patients at the clinic tend to be women.

Bed rest, giving up exercise and pain killers are traditional responses to back pain.

Now, let's look at some of the reasons why back pain is developing into such a unique menace.

In general, the body is pretty good at self-repair.

A strain or a blow to a limb, though painful at the time, generally resolves itself.

When pain strikes, we attempt to keep the back as immobile as possible, which makes the muscles tense up.

The second mistake we often make when stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay there.

The British diet could be partially to blame for the increase in back pain.