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CNN 4月20日的新闻：
Tom Hanks recounts his exhaustion and wife Rita Wilson's nausea during coronavirus
( recount：讲述 exhaution：筋疲力竭 nausea：恶心 coronavirus：新冠病毒 )
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(CNN)Tom Hanks is getting personal about the coronavirus battle that he and his wife Rita Wilson experienced.
The actor says although he didn't have symptoms as bad as Wilson, he felt "wiped" while in isolation at a hospital in Queensland, Australia, last month.
1. get personal about：对...发表个人意见
2. battle：战斗，此处指与病毒作斗争。
3. experience：经历
4. symptom：症状
5. wiped：疲惫的，常用短语wipe / wear out（使疲惫），wiped为被动式形容词，相当于tired，exhausted
6. in isolation：隔离/孤立中（确诊后被隔离在澳大利亚的昆士兰）
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"I was wiped after 12 minutes [of exercising]. I laid down in my hospital bed and just slept," Hanks told National Defense Radio Show.
He recalled telling a medical professional who was treating him at the time, "'I just had the weirdest thing. I just tried to do basic stretches and exercises on the floor and I couldn't even get halfway through.' And she looked at me through her glasses like she was talking to the dumbest human being. And she said, 'You have Covid-19.'"
1. lie down：躺下
2. recall：回忆
3. professional：专业人士， medical professional即医生。
4. weirdest：最奇怪的，weird的最高级形式。
5. stretch：伸展(运动)
6. exercise：运动
7. get through：完成
8. halfway：一半
9. dumb：笨的
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Hanks said that his wife had such bad nausea from the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, that at times she couldn't even walk.
1. anti-malaria drug：抗疟药物，anti前缀表示“ 抗，反”
2. hydroxychloroquine：（药物名）
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"Rita went through a tougher time than I did," Hanks went on to say. "She had a much higher fever and she had some other symptoms. She lost her sense of taste and smell. She got absolutely no joy from food for a better part of three weeks ... She was so nauseous she had to crawl on the floor from the bed to the facilities."
Wilson recently spoke about her experience with Covid-19 to "CBS This Morning."
"I felt extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn't want to be touched, and then the fever started," Wilson told Gayle King. She also discussed having a temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit and "chills like I never had before."
After recovering, the couple returned home to Los Angeles in late March.
1. go through：经历
2. tough：困难的，相当于difficult。
3. go on to：继续
4. fever：高烧
5. lost her sense of taste and smell：失去了味觉
6. absolutely：完全地，相当于definitely，老美日常使用频率超高的单词。
7. a better part of：多半，还可以写成a best part of
8. nauseous：恶心的，nausea的形容词形式。
9. crawl：爬
10. facilities：设备，器械。
11. extremely：极短地
12. achy：疼痛的，ache的形容词。
13. uncomfortable：不舒服的
14. temperature：温度，体温
15. chill：寒意
16. recover：恢复，名词形式是recovery。
17. late March：三月下旬
P.S. Tom Hanks的几部经典电影：
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文：Chloe Melas
译：Leigh