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Dental Visit for Tooth Pain
Dentist (speaking English) and Patient (speaking Mandarin) talk through “Dental Visit for Tooth Pain”. You interpret both ways — English into Mandarin, and Mandarin into English — one segment at a time, exactly as in the CCL test.
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Thanks for coming in—I see from your notes you've had tooth pain for a few days. Which tooth is bothering you, and how severe is the pain?
医生您好，是右下方的大牙，痛了大概两天了，尤其是吃东西的时候特别疼，有时候整个下巴都会跟着痛。
When did the pain start, and does it get worse when you eat something hot or cold? Have you taken any medication for it so far?
大概两天前开始的，喝热水或者吃冰的东西都会更痛。我吃过一次止痛药，但效果不是很好。
The X-ray shows a fairly deep cavity in your lower right molar. We'll need to do a filling today, which takes about thirty minutes.
好的，那这个补牙大概要多少钱？我的私人医疗保险可以报销吗？
Medicare doesn't cover general dental treatment, but if you have private health insurance, we can process a HICAPS claim on the spot today.
太好了，那如果今天没有时间做完整个疗程，我可以下周再来复诊吗？
I can book you in for next Thursday at half past two in the afternoon. If the pain gets worse before then, please call us immediately.
没问题，星期四下午两点半可以。那这几天疼得厉害的时候，我应该吃什么止痛药比较合适？
Take ibuprofen every six hours for the pain, but if you're allergic to anti-inflammatories, use paracetamol instead, not both together at the same time.
明白了，谢谢您医生，我会按时吃药，星期四也会准时过来复诊的。
Terms in this dialogue that cost marks
CCL is marked on information transferred. These Australian terms have no direct word in most test languages — get one wrong and the segment's information is gone.
- medicare直接说英文 Medicare，不用翻译，因为这是专有名词，中文里没有对应词。
- private health insurance说“私人医疗保险”即可，这是标准译法。
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