18. The symptoms of the common cold are too familiar to require much description. 19. There are few papers dealing with acupuncture analgesia. 20. There are a few papers dealing with acupuncture analgesia. 21. The diseases produced by different pneumococcal serotypes show little variation in severity or in clinical manifestation. 22. The heart is a hollow muscular organ lying with its center a little to the left of the midline of the chest.
8. Both diets cannot provide adequate nourishment. 9. Every instrument here is not precise. 10. All knowledge and techniques of modern medicine cannot bring him back to life. 11. You cannot go to see the doctor too early. early. 12. The medical workers cannot be too detail in questioning in order to learn the nature of the disorder the patient speaks of.
Exercises
1. A microorganism is a tiny living thing, too small to be seen by the naked eye. 2. If a tumour is palpable, the disease is often too advanced to be treated radically. 3. Many patients with pneumococcal pneumonia are too ill to tolerate a full diet and should receive only liquids during the height of the fever.
15. Though often beneficial, mindless use of antibiotics is not without hazard. 16. In their cohort study never an action was taken without concerted effort. 17. Physiologic process cannot take place normally unless there is sufficient water. 18. Some patients with severe chronic obstructive lung disease do not have evidence of right ventricular failure until late in their disease.
4. Tetanus not infrequently follows injuries too trivial to be seen by a physician, and in 20 percent of cases there is neither a history of injury nor a detectable lesion. 5. It is never too late to learn. learn. 6. The veteran physician is too experienced not to know how to treat the emergency case. 7. The peasants are only too glad to have these doctors give them medical help.
23. The diagnosis of acute viral hepatitis presents little difficulty during the course of an epidemic. 24. The patient’s fever has come down a little, little, but his pulse rate and respiration are rapid. 25. There is little further to report. 26. There is a little further to report. 27. There is little doubt that a chronically inflamed appendix can be responsible for symptoms of dyspepsia. 28. The doctors cannot be too careful in performingpuncture analgesia is none the less efficacious for all its simplicity. 6. The side-effect is none too serious. side7. Never give morphine to unconcious patients, patients who have head injuries, those with respiratory depression, or those without pain. 8. Neither of the agents is antihypertensive. 9. In case of trivial medical findings, complete bed rest is not recommended, nor is too much physical activity. 10. It is neither pleasant to eat nor good for health.
13. It cannot be too emphasized that a combination of Chinese and Western method instead of surgery is justified in certain acute abdominal cases. 14. The harmful results of pollution cannot be underscored too markedly. markedly. 15. This point cannot be stressed too strongly. strongly. 16. One can never be too careful in one’s work. 17. We can scarecely overestimate the importance of the socialist modernization of our country.
11. Not all mass-like lesions of the lung are massdue to carcinoma. 12. A single episode may last several days but is not always distressing. 13. We do not deny that misdiagnosis do occur occasionally. 14. There is nothing illogical in the idea that viruses or virus-like agents may be the virusbasic cause of cancers, although requiring the cooperation, as we shall see, of nutritional, hormonal, genetic and other metabolic factors.
Chapter 6
Affirmative & Negative
转换原因
汉英两种语言的习惯用法不同 为了加强语气以便获得更好的修辞效果 为了更加确切的表达原文含义
Negative in English
完全否定：entire/full 完全否定：entire/full negation 部分否定：partial 部分否定：partial negation 准/含蓄否定：implied/implicit negation 含蓄否定：implied/implicit 词缀否定：affixal 词缀否定：affixal negation 双重否定：double/duel 双重否定：double/duel negation
23. None but this pathogenic strain was shown to be sensitive to the new preparation. 24. In view of the malignancy of the lesion we cannot but resort to radical incision. 25. But for the timely diagnosis, there would be no hope of being cured. 26. Mastectomy is a matter of no small consequence for it causes emotional as well as physical problems for many patients, even when the malignancy is arrested.