Todd: So, Barbara, we're talking about your time in the hospital. You were in the hospital for sometime. First of all, how long were you actually in the hospital?

托德：芭芭拉，我们来谈谈你在医院的生活。你住了一段时间的院。你住了多长时间的院？

Barbara: Well, I was in two hospitals actually. At first, I was in a big hospital for three and a half weeks and I was on a drip for all of that time, and they didn't let me eat anything, and the first couple of days, they also didn't let me drink anything.

芭芭拉：嗯，其实我是在两家医院接受的治疗。一开始，我在一家大医院入院治疗了三周半，那段时间我一直在打点滴，他们不让我吃东西，前几天的时候医生甚至都不让我喝水。

Todd: Whoa!

托德：哇！

Barbara: Yeah.

芭芭拉：对。

Todd: So you were on a drip… I'm sorry, how long?

托德：抱歉，你打了多长时间的点滴？

Barbara: Three and a half weeks.

芭芭拉：三周半。

Todd: Whoa! No solid food for three and a half weeks.

托德：哇！三周半没有吃固体食物。

Barbara: No food for three and a half weeks.

芭芭拉：三周半没有吃东西。

Todd: Man!

托德：天哪！

Barbara: Yeah, I was dreaming about my mother's cooking, and I was dreaming about roast chicken and roast lamb and man, the smells and the tastes came back to me, but there was no food.

芭芭拉：对，当时我梦到过我妈妈做的饭，还有烤鸡和烤羊，我都能想起这些美食的味道，可是我不能吃东西。

Todd: But after like, say two weeks or something, does your body just get used to not having food?

托德：那两周之后，你的身体是不是已经习惯不进食了？

Barbara: Yeah. Yes, it does. Definitely. And I lost a lot of weight, but actually I felt fine. Friends who came to visit me in the hospital were surprised and they were like, "Wow! Where's the rest of you?"

芭芭拉：对，没错。就是这样。那段时间我瘦了很多，不过我感觉还好。来探望我的朋友走进病房看到我以后都特别惊讶，他们的反应是：哇！你怎么瘦了这么多？

Todd: You did lose a lot of weight. Actually, how much weight did you lose?

托德：你的确瘦了很多。你体重减了多少？

Barbara: I lost, well, I started losing weight because I was changing my diet just before I got ill. In the last eighteen months, I've lost twenty kilos.

芭芭拉：我生病以前已经开始改变饮食习惯，所以那时我就开始减轻体重。过去18个月以来，我瘦了20公斤。

Todd: Whoa! That's a lot.

托德：天哪！你真的瘦了很多。

Barbara: That is, indeed, yeah.

芭芭拉：没错，是的。

Todd: Twenty kilos… Wow! Well, you look great. You must feel great.

托德：20公斤……哇！你看起来很不错。你一定感觉很棒。

Barbara: I feel much better. Actually I think sick with that was probably a good thing. It made me take stock and reevaluate things and get healthy.

芭芭拉：我感觉好多了。实际上，我觉得这么看来，这场病可能对我来说是件好事。因为它让我全面审视自己，重新考虑现状，变得更健康。

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