Off-limits
2015/08/20 08:41:18
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The word “disorder” has different meanings but used this way it means an illness that affects a person’s normal physical and mental functions. For example, you can have a skin disorder or a mental disorder. If you are not allowed to do something, or go near a place, then it is off-limits to you. People under the age of 18 are not allowed to buy alcohol, so it is off-limits to them. People without plane tickets are not allowed to enter the restricted areas of airports. These areas are off-limits to them. If you are wary, it means you don’t have complete trust in someone or something. If you relent, it means you finally agree to do something that you had refused to do.
The doctor gave me herbal medicine to take to any Hong Kong Chinese medicine shop to boil but all the shops I went to refused to boil the medicine because I did not buy it from them. Luckily, the wife of a Hong Kong friend boiled it. I had to drink it twice a day for six days. The TCM doctor told me not to drink alcohol during this time. The medicine had a foul（awful, disgusting, bad）taste and smell. My Guangzhou friends told me I must drink Chinese medicine for much more than six days to cure my digestive problems but I don’t think I can drink it any more. It tastes too foul.
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兩星期前，我到廣州探朋友，友人帶我到訪傳統中醫師，看看我的消化系統問題。我已經多年受着消化紊亂問題（disorders）困擾。辛辣和油膩食物，牛扒、薄餅、芝士蛋糕甚至朱古力等難消化的食物，對我來說都是禁忌（off-limits），為我帶來消化的問題。我只吃輕盈食物如魚、蔬菜、沙律和粥。西醫給我的藥物只有紓緩我的消化紊亂問題（disorders），卻未能根治。我的廣州朋友說他們的親戚試了一位很好的中醫師，他們屢屢勸我去試試看，我卻總是對中醫師有所顧忌（wary）。兩星期前，我終於心軟（relented）了。
Disorder這個字有不同意思，這裏解作引致人體正常生理或心理功能失調的病症。例如，你可以有skin disorder（皮膚病）或mental disorder（心理病）。若你被禁戒作某事或禁止進入某區域，那它對你來說就是off-limits。未滿十八歲的人士不能買酒，因此酒對他們來說就是off-limits。未持有機票的人不得進入機場禁區，對他們來說這些禁區也是off-limits。若你很wary，即是說你不能完全信任某人或某事。若你relent，即是你態度軟化，願意作一些本來你拒絕去做的事。
那醫師給我草藥，讓我拿回香港的中醫診所去煲，但所有我去的店都拒絕替我煎藥，因為藥不是從他們那裏買的。幸運地，有位香港朋友的太太幫我煎藥。我要一連六天，每天喝兩次。我的中醫師叫我不要在這期間喝酒。那藥有股難喝又難聞（foul）的味道。我的廣州朋友都跟我說，中藥必須喝多於六天，才能治好我的消化問題，但我不認為我能再喝下去。它實在難喝（foul）得要死。
中譯:七刻
Michael Chugani 褚簡寧
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