Level C · Intermediate

The test results

Doctor Zhang goes through Xiaoyu's test results. Two values are high, and one of them means nothing.

What you learn to do

  • having a result read to you
  • saying what may have skewed a test
  • asking whether medication is needed
  • taking in advice about your way of life
  1. Doctor Zhang

    小雨化验结果出来

    Xiǎoyǔ, nǐ de huà yàn jiéguǒ chūlái le.

    Xiaoyu, your test results are back.

  2. Xiaoyu

    大夫问题一直紧张

    Zhāng dàifu, yǒu wèntí ma ? Wǒ zhè jǐ tiān yīzhí hěn jǐnzhāng.

    Doctor Zhang, is there a problem? I have been very anxious these last few days.

  3. Doctor Zhang

    部分正常只有

    Dà bùfen dōu zhèngcháng, zhǐyǒu liǎng xiàng piān gāo.

    Most of the values are normal, only two are a little high.

  4. Xiaoyu

    Nǎ liǎng xiàng ?

    Which two?

  5. Doctor Zhang

    血糖血脂不但东西有关而且运动有关

    Xuè táng hé xuè zhī. Bùdàn gēn chī de dōngxi yǒuguān, érqiě gēn bù yùndòng yǒuguān.

    Blood sugar and blood lipids. It has to do not only with what you eat, but with a lack of exercise.

  6. Xiaoyu

    抽血晚上奶茶

    Chōu xiě qián yī tiān wǎnshang, wǒ hē le yī bēi nǎichá.

    The night before the blood test, I drank a cup of milk tea.

  7. Doctor Zhang

    抽血空腹奶茶血糖

    Chōu xiě yào kōng fù. Hē le nǎichá, xuè táng zhè yī xiàng jiù bù zhǔn le.

    A blood test has to be done on an empty stomach. With milk tea, the blood sugar reading is no longer reliable.

  8. Xiaoyu

    另外

    Nà lìngwài yī xiàng ne ?

    And the other value?

  9. Doctor Zhang

    关系

    Nà yī xiàng gēn qián yī tiān méi guānxi, shì zhēn de piān gāo.

    That one has nothing to do with the night before, it really is high.

  10. Xiaoyu

    Yào chī yào ma ?

    Do I need medication?

  11. Doctor Zhang

    晚饭下来四十分钟

    Xiān bù chī. Bǎ wǎnfàn de yóu jiǎn xiàlai, měi tiān zǒu sìshí fēnzhōng.

    Not yet. Cut the fat out of your evening meal and walk forty minutes a day.

  12. Xiaoyu

    以后

    Sān gè yuè yǐhòu zài lái chá, duì ma ?

    And come back for a test in three months, is that right?

  13. Doctor Zhang

    血糖空腹

    Duì. Xuè táng zhè yī xiàng xià gè yuè chóng zuò, kōng fù lái.

    That is right. Redo the blood sugar next month, and come on an empty stomach.

Vocabulary to remember

  • 化验 huà yàn laboratory test
  • 结果 jiéguǒ result, as it turned out
  • 紧张 jǐnzhāng nervous, tight
  • 部分 bùfen part, portion
  • piān a little too, to lean towards
  • 血糖 xuè táng blood sugar
  • 血脂 xuè zhī blood lipids
  • 有关 yǒuguān to concern, related to
  • 抽血 chōu xiě to take a blood sample
  • 空腹 kōng fù on an empty stomach
  • jiǎn to reduce, to cut
  • chóng again, to redo

Language points

偏高: a little too much, without being abnormal

偏 before an adjective says the value leans the wrong way without being frankly there: 偏高, 偏低, 偏瘦, 偏咸. It is the word of medical reports and polite criticism, and English needs two words for it ("a little too"). It is never used with 很 or 非常.

跟…有关: what a thing depends on

跟吃的东西有关: it has to do with what you eat. The mould 跟 A 有关 links a cause to an effect without claiming it is the only one, which suits medical caution. Its negative, 跟…没关系, is the one in line 9 and means "that has nothing to do with it".

重 is read chóng when it means "again"

The same character is read zhòng and means "heavy", or chóng and means "again". 重做 is therefore "to redo", not "to do heavily". Context nearly always decides, but the reading changes, and an audio lesson is the only place where you can really hear it.

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