Over the counter(藥物)的英譯英能力訓練

Over the counter(藥物)的英譯英能力訓練

Over the counter(藥物)是什麼意思？

1) Over the counter是什麼意思？

英語詞彙量大一點的人見到英語over the counter都會一張嘴就來中文：非處方藥的。

那麼，我再問你：Over the counter是什麼意思？

沒有多少人張嘴就來英語了：這就是我們學習英語的能力短板。

2) 把Over the counter做英譯英訓練

我們可能都沒想到，把over the counter英譯英時竟然就是這麼簡單的英語(多種同義表達)：

1. Okay.I got you.Over the counter drugs/Over the counter medicines/Over the counter medications are the drugs we can buy in a shop without first visiting/seeing a doctor.

2. drug means medicine,or medication,and medication means drug,or medicine

3. med-ication,med-icine

4. Okay.I got you.Over the counter drugs/Over the counter medicines/Over the counter medications are the drugs we can buy legally,or that are old legally without a doctor's prescription.

prescription:pres-crip-tion 處方

5. Okay.I got you.If we can buy the drugs directly and legally=lawfully at a shop and don't have to see a doctor first,then these are over-the-counter drugs/medicines/medications.

When we do something legally,or lawfully,we do it without breaking the law,or accordibg to the law.

希望這些簡單英語既能作為英語口語來練習，又能作為我們「理解」英語over the counter的「理解語言」，而不僅僅是中文「非處方的」。

最後的訓練環節，就是大聲地開口把上面的英語「說」幾遍，不要動眼不動口。