看中医Seeing a Chinese Doctor

New words

• 中医zhōngyī — Chinese medicine; Chinese doctor
• 科kē — (hospital) department; school subject
• 院yuàn — courtyard; hospital, institute (住院)
• 片piàn — (measure word: slices, tablets)
• 刻kè — quarter of an hour (三点一刻)

The story

大卫：我感冒了……头疼，还有点儿发烧。I've caught a cold... my head hurts, and I've got a bit of a fever.

大卫：我的表说，三天内我只睡了十个小时。My watch says I've only slept ten hours in three days.

小雨妈妈：别怕！我给你约好了：下午三点一刻，大医院的中医科。Don't worry! I've booked you in: a quarter past three this afternoon, in the Chinese medicine department of the big hospital.

大卫：中医？不用了，我吃两片药就好了。A Chinese doctor? No need. I'll just take two pills and I'll be fine.

小雨妈妈：药片没用！看中医最好。Pills are useless! Seeing a Chinese doctor is best.

小雨：妈，三点一刻？现在才九点啊。Mom, quarter past three? It's only nine o'clock.

小雨妈妈：我们两点一刻就出发。看病要早！We'll leave at quarter past two. You have to be early for the doctor!

小雨：大卫，你妈妈的视频！这儿网很慢，信号也不好。David, it's your mom on video! The internet's slow here, and the signal's bad too.

Opening the lesson…