[资源推荐] 提高双语输入深度：跟2岁娃聊病菌

群群最近感冒了，带她去医院各种慌乱，英语对话简单粗暴，像是Don’t touch anything in the hospital. The germs are everywhere and will make you worse! You do as I say! 什么的都脱口而出了… …

生病上医院这个话题其实应该拆分成很多微场景，比如医院环境（各种检查室）、就诊程序、病状描述、病理解释、抽血、取药等等，表达困难的场景还真不少呢。趁热打铁，就把这次实际就医过程中遇到的难点场景表达梳理一下吧。

我对群群双语养育的一个简单原则是：家里其他人用中文跟群群说到什么程度，我用英文也应该尽量做到。群群虽然只有一岁八个月，但一些生活常识我觉得有必要开始在日常生活中对她进行科普了。小娃对这些事其实兴趣很浓哇，也许这就是所谓的“生活即是乐园”吧。

在医院等待就诊的漫长时间里，群群一会摸这里，一会摸那里，除了stop touching the wall/floor/door/bench/other patients, they are dirty什么的之外能说的真不多，一方面是她生病了我真的很心急，另一方面语言和知识储备也的确是贫乏。事不宜迟，第一篇笔记就整理整理病菌（germs）主题。

参考资料（进入“双语养育修炼笔记”公众号，回复“病菌资源”获得电子版）：

（1）Let’s Read and Find Out Science系列之Germs Make Me Sick

（2）Peppa Pig第三季Pedro’s Cough

（3）[url=]www.kidshealth.org[/url]，不用翻墙的关于儿童健康的科普网站。

整理这些不等于都需要跟群群说，但是她成长很快，我却很慢。双语养育，家长需要走在前面一点。

（一）  病菌是什么?

你咳了两天了，肯定是感染病菌了，病菌会让人生病。

You have a cough.

You’ve been coughing for two days.

You must have caught a germ.

Germs make you sick.

病菌并不总是让人生病。很多病菌没有害处，有些病菌则有害处。

Germs do not always make you sick.

Many germs are not harmful.

But some of them do.

病菌是一些很小的微生物。因为他们太小了，所以光用肉眼是看不见的。

Germs are tiny living things.

They are far too small to see with your eyes alone.

病菌有很多种，最常见的致病病菌有两种：一种是细菌，一种是病毒。

There are many kinds of germs,

but the two that usually make you sick are bacteria and viruses.

我们去找医生检查一下。医生会帮你检查到底是那种病菌让宝宝生病的

Let’s see a doctor.

The doctors will try to find out which germs are making you sick.

（二）病菌在哪里？无处不在！

你呼吸的空气里，吃的东西里，喝的水里面，手摸过的东西都有病菌，比如你刚刚摸过的这堵墙。

Germs are all around.

Germs,such as bacteria and viruses, are found everywhere!

They are in the air you breathe, in the food you eat, in the water you drink, and on everything you touch! Like this wall!

如果有人打喷嚏了，病菌就从他嘴巴里出来，跑到空气里去了。你再去呼吸含有病菌的空气，这些病菌就可能跑到你的肺里面。

When somebody sneezes, germs fly out.

You breathe the air. Some of their germs may get into your lungs.

如果你喝了别人的饮料，吸管上有别人的病菌，那就跑到你的嘴里了。

When you take a sip of someone else’s drink.

Their germs are on the straw.

A few of their germs may get into your mouth.

你的皮肤上、身体里都有病菌。

They are even on your skin and in your body.

（三）身体里的病菌

你的身体大多数时候都可以阻挡病菌，皮肤也能阻挡。

Your body keeps out harmful germs most of the time.

Your skin blocks the germs.

如果皮肤上有伤口，像是划伤什么的，病菌就会趁虚而入了。

Germs can’t get in if there are no cuts or scratches on your skin.

病菌呆在你的身体里，会让你生病。

Germs can stay in your body and make you sick.

人的嘴巴里和喉咙里总是湿润的，病菌常常就在这种环境里滋生了，他们哪儿也去不了，就只能在这里繁殖。

The inside of your mouth and throat is always wet.

Germs often get stuck there.

They don’t go any further.

看看我们的鼻子里。里面有细小的毛毛。这些毛毛也能捉住我们呼吸进来的病菌，把他们挡在鼻子外面。

Look inside a nose.

It is lined with tiny hairs in the nose.

The hairs catch many of the germs you breathe in.

They push them back out.

（红细胞、白细胞、抗体blabla此处不适合跟两岁娃交流）

Our body has its own way to beat back the germs.

（四）病毒（Viruses）

病毒会造成很多疾病，比如流感、麻疹、腮腺炎、天花等等。

Viruses bring you colds and the flu, measles, mumps, and chicken box, and lots of other illnesses.

现在还没有药物能治疗病毒哦。

Doctors do not yet have drugs to cure diseases caused by viruses.

通过打针能预防一些病毒引起的疾病。

But they can give you shots to prevent some of these diseases.