약국에서 - 해설 편

#. 약국에서 - 해설 편

 

Hi. I'm looking for something to take for my cold.

> What are your symptoms?

 

Key expression number one is a question. What are your symptoms?

A symptom is some indication or feature of a sickness or a disease. So it is what that sickness or disease causes in you, what you show from it. So, say for a cold, a runny nose is a  symptom.

Exactly. And this is a very common question that you need to know how to answer whenever you go to the pharmacy looking for advice, or even if you go see the doctor or go to the hospital.

 

• indication  ˌɪndɪˈkeɪʃn    (사정·생각·감정을 보여주는) 말[암시/조짐]  indicate  ˈɪndɪkeɪt  (사실임·존재함을) 나타내다 [보여 주다]

• feature  ˈfiːtʃə(r)    특색, 특징, 특성 (→water feature)

• cause  kɔːz   원인 /   (특정한 감정이나 행동의) 이유 /  … 을 야기하다 [초래하다]

 

I'm super congested. I have a headache and a sore throat and a slight fever.

> I recommend you take this pill. It's very effective.

 

Let's move on to our second key area. I'm super congested, I have a headache and a sore throat and a slight fever. 

Morag, what's going on here with this line? What is the customer communicating?

The customer is communicating that they do not feel well. They probably have a cold.

these are symptoms. Congestion, headache, sore throat, slight fever. This is the answer to that previous question.

Mmhmm. It's the sort of thing that the pharmacist needs, your list of symptoms, to be able to tell you what sort of drugs you need to take.

 

• what's going on?  무슨 일 있어요?

• what's going on here?  여기는 무슨 일이 벌어지고 있는 거지?

• Congestion  kənˈdʒestʃən   혼잡 /  충혈·울혈·점액에 의한 막힘

• sort of something  일종의 ~[~ 같은 것]  

• pharmacist   |fɑːrməsɪst  약사 (→chemist)

 

It won't make me feel tired, will it?

> No, it shouldn't It's non-drowsy.

 

Let's move on to our third expression, it's non-drowsy. So our third expression, again, is it's non-drowsy.

So drowsy means sleepy, okay? If you're feeling drowsy, you're feeling very sleepy and very lazy and lethargic.

So if we describe a medicine as non-drowsy,  then it means that if you take this medicine, you're not going to feel a side effect of being sleepy. You won't become sleepy.

It's always a good idea to chat with the pharmacist before taking any medicine because you never know what the side effects can be. Like you said, you might just take a medicine and then, oh, feel very sleepy, very drowsy all of a sudden.

And there might be other side effects, too. It's a great idea to converse with the pharmacist to find the medicine that works best for you.

 

• lethargic  ləθɑ́:rdƷik(əl)  무기력한, 활발하지 못한, 둔감한

• lazy  ˈleɪzi  게으른 (=idle)  느긋한, 여유로운

• converse  kən|vɜːrs    (~와) 대화[이야기]를 나누다  /  (어떤 사실이나 진술의) 정반대[역]