美国脑死亡男子捐赠器官手术中苏醒

据外媒报道，美国肯塔基州一名已宣布死亡的器官捐赠者，在其器官即将被摘取时，医生惊奇地发现：他还活着……

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🤔️小作业：

1. What can be inferred about the feelings of KODA workers after the incident?

A. They felt relieved and satisfied

B. They were indifferent to the situation

C. They were upset and some quit their jobs D. They were eager to continue their work

无注释原文：

Kentucky man's organs were nearly harvested. Then doctors realized he was still alive

From: The Independent

The organs of a Kentucky donor who had been declared dead were ready to be harvested — but then doctors made a startling discovery: he was still alive.

“He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Natasha Miller, an organ preservationist in the operating room during the alarming October 2021 incident, told NPR. “And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly.”

Miller, who works at Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA), told the outlet that two doctors refused to perform the organ retrieval after realizing that the donor had wrongly been declared dead.

“The procuring surgeon, he was like, ‘I'm out of it. I don't want to have anything to do with it,’ ” Miller said. “It was very chaotic. Everyone was just very upset.”

The patient was 36-year-old Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover II, who had been admitted to Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Kentucky earlier that day after a drug overdose, his sister Donna Rhorer told the outlet.

Rhorer recalled a flicker of concern when as her brother was being taken from the intensive care unit to an operating room. She recalled seeing him open his eyes, which then began darting around the room.

“It was like it was his way of letting us know, you know: ‘Hey, I'm still here,’” Rhorer told NPR.

In the operating room, Miller recalled the case coordinator phoning her supervisor at KODA for help once they saw signs of life. The supervisor insisted that the case coordinator needed to “find another doctor to do it,” Miller recalled.

Ultimately, the organ retrieval was canceled. Hoover now lives with Rhorer, his legal guardian.

Hoover is safe, but the shocking moment stuck with KODA workers, some of whom quit after that incident.

“I've dedicated my entire life to organ donation and transplant. It's very scary to me now that these things are allowed to happen and there's not more in place to protect donors,” organ preservationist Nyckoletta Martin told NPR.

Although she wasn't in that operating room, she told the outlet that she had reviewed the case file because there was a chance she could have been assigned to work the procedure.

Earlier that day, the donor had undergone cardiac catheterization, which is used to evaluate the heart's health before or after a transplant.

“The donor had woken up during his procedure that morning for a cardiac catheterization. And he was thrashing around on the table,” Martin said. But then, doctors sedated the patient and continued to plan to recover his organs, she added.

“That's everybody's worst nightmare, right? Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone is going to cut you open and take your body parts out?” Martin told NPR. “That's horrifying.”

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含注释全文：

Kentucky man's organs were nearly harvested. Then doctors realized he was still alive

From: The Independent

The organs of a Kentucky donor who had been declared dead were ready to be harvested — but then doctors made a startling discovery: he was still alive.

肯塔基州一名已宣布死亡的器官捐赠者，在其器官即将被摘取时，医生惊奇地发现：他还活着。

donor /ˈdəʊ.nər/ 表示“献血者；器官捐献者”，英文解释为“a person who gives some of their blood or a part of their body to help someone who is ill”如：a blood donor 献血者，a kidney donor 肾脏捐献者。

harvest /ˈhɑː.vɪst/ 1）表示“收割，收获，捕获”，英文解释为“to pick and collect crops, or to collect plants, animals, or fish to eat”举个🌰：In the US, winter wheat is harvested in the early summer. 在美国，冬小麦一般在初夏收割。

2）熟词僻义，表示“采集（细胞或器官以供医用）”，英文解释为“to take cells or other body parts from someone for medical use”举个🌰：The donor organ is harvested at the accident scene and rushed to a hospital. 事故现场采集的捐献器官被迅速送往医院。

startling /ˈstɑː.təlɪŋ/ 表示“惊人的；令人震惊的”，英文解释为“surprising and sometimes worrying”如：startling results 令人震惊的结果。

“He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Natasha Miller, an organ preservationist in the operating room during the alarming October 2021 incident, told NPR. “And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly.”

“当时他一直在动——有点儿挣扎的样子。就像，在床上不停挣扎，”2021年10月发生这起令人震惊的事件中，手术室里的器官保存专家娜塔莎·米勒（Natasha Miller）在接受美国国家公共广播电台（NPR）采访时说。“然后我们过去看他的时候，可以看出他哭了。他明显在抽泣。”

thrashing /ˈθræʃ.ɪŋ/ 1）表示“（作为惩罚的）毒打，痛打”，英文解释为“an occasion when someone hits a person or animal hard many times as a punishment”举个🌰：At that time the thrashing of servants was legal. 在当时，打仆人是合法的。

2）表示“轻松击败，完败”，英文解释为“an occasion when someone defeats someone else very easily in a game, competition, or election”举个🌰：The team was on the receiving end of a six-goal thrashing recently. 球队最近遭到一场被灌六球的惨败。

preservationist /ˌprez.əˈveɪ.ʃən.ɪst/ 表示“（保护古建筑和乡村免受破坏的）文物保护者，环境保护者”，英文解释为“A preservationist is someone who takes action to preserve something such as old buildings or an area of countryside.”

一般意义上的Preservationist指那些致力于保护自然环境、历史建筑、文化遗产等的人。在特定专业领域，如医疗、图书馆学等，指专门负责保存和维护特定物品或信息的专家。

Miller, who works at Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA), told the outlet that two doctors refused to perform the organ retrieval after realizing that the donor had wrongly been declared dead.

在肯塔基州器官捐献机构（KODA）工作的米勒告诉该媒体，两名医生在意识到器官捐赠者被误判死亡后，拒绝进行器官摘取手术。

affiliate /əˈfɪliət/ 作名词，表示“附属机构；分支机构；分公司；分会”，英文解释为“a company, an organization, etc. that is connected with or controlled by another larger one”如：an affiliate of the university 大学的隶属机构/分支机构。

作动词，表示“使并入，使隶属（较大的团体或组织）；使紧密联系”，英文解释为“to cause a group to become part of or form a close relationship with another, usually larger, group, or organization”如：a college affiliated to Zhejiang University 浙江大学附属学院；举个🌰：The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。

顺便看下几个“xx附中”怎么说？

📍北京大学附属中学 The Affiliated High School of Peking University

📍清华大学附属中学 Tsinghua University High School

📍中国人民大学附属中学 The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China

📍浙江大学附属中学 The High School Attached to Zhejiang University

outlet /ˈaʊt.let/ 或者outlets一词经常出现，media outlet / news outlets 都可以表示媒体/新闻机构；outlet本身表示“商店，商行；销售公司；专卖店；直销店”，英文解释为“An outlet is a shop or organization which sells the goods made by a particular manufacturer or at a discount price, often direct from the manufacturer.”如：a fast-food outlet 快餐店，a retail outlet 零售店，举个🌰：At the factory outlet you'll find discounted items at up to 75% off regular prices. 在工厂的直销店里，你会找到比常规价低75%的打折商品。

📍而我们日常生活中常见的“奥特莱斯”商场就是outlets的音译，指的就是品牌直销购物中心。

此外，也可以指“（情绪或精力的）发泄方式，发泄途径，施展的机会”，英文解释为“a way in which emotion or energy can be expressed or made use of”举个🌰：Her work provided no outlet for her energies and talents. 她的工作没有给她提供发泄精力及施展才华的机会。

📍美式英语里还可以表示“电源插座（同 power point）”。

retrieval /rɪˈtriː.vəl/ 1）表示“取回；索回”，英文解释为“the process of getting sth back, especially from a place where it should not be”举个🌰：By then the situation was beyond retrieval (= impossible to put right). 到那时，局势已无法挽回。

2）表示“数据检索”，英文解释为“the process of getting back information that is stored on a computer”。

“The procuring surgeon, he was like, ‘I'm out of it. I don't want to have anything to do with it,’ ” Miller said. “It was very chaotic. Everyone was just very upset.”

“主刀医生说，‘我不干了。我不想再参与其中了，’”米勒说。“当时场面非常混乱。每个人都很沮丧。”

procure /prəˈkjʊər/ 表示“（努力）取得，获得”，英文解释为“to get something, especially after an effort”举个🌰：She's managed somehow to procure his phone number. 她不知怎么设法弄到了他的电话号码。

Procuring在此语境下表示“获取器官的”，指的是负责获取供体器官的外科医生。这些医生的职责包括识别合适的供体、进行器官摘取手术，并确保器官在移植前得到妥善保存和处理。

surgeon /ˈsɜː.dʒən/ 表示“外科医生”，英文解释为“a doctor who is specially trained to perform medical operations”

chaotic /keɪˈɒt.ɪk/ 表示“混乱的；毫无秩序的”，英文解释为“in a state of chaos”举个🌰：The house is a bit chaotic at the moment. 房子里现在有点混乱。

The patient was 36-year-old Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover II, who had been admitted to Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Kentucky earlier that day after a drug overdose, his sister Donna Rhorer told the outlet.

病人是36岁的安东尼·托马斯“TJ”·胡佛二世（Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover II），他的姐姐唐娜·罗勒（Donna Rhorer）告诉该媒体，当天早些时候，他因药物过量被送往肯塔基州里士满（Richmond）浸信会卫生院。

overdose /ˈəʊ.və.dəʊs/ 表示“（一次用药的）过量，超剂量”，英文解释为“too much of a drug taken or given at one time, either intentionally or by accident”举个🌰：When he was 17 he took an overdose of sleeping pills and nearly died. 他17岁时吃了过量的安眠药，险些丧命。

Rhorer recalled a flicker of concern when as her brother was being taken from the intensive care unit to an operating room. She recalled seeing him open his eyes, which then began darting around the room.

罗勒回忆说，当她的弟弟从重症监护室被送往手术室时，她曾闪过一丝担忧。她记得当时看到弟弟睁开了眼睛，然后开始在房间里四处张望。

flicker /ˈflɪk.ər/ 1）表示“摇曳；闪烁”，英文解释为“to shine with a light that is sometimes bright and sometimes weak”举个🌰：I felt a cold draft and the candle started to flicker. 我感到一阵冷风袭来，烛光开始摇曳起来。

2）表示“闪现，一闪而过；使…突然动一下”，英文解释为“to appear for a short time or to make a sudden movement”举个🌰：A smile flickered across her face. 她脸上掠过一丝微笑。

作名词，表示“（感觉或情绪的）闪现，一闪而过”，英文解释为“a feeling or expression of an emotion or quality that does not last very long”举个🌰：There was a flicker of hope in his eyes. 他的眼中闪过一丝希望。

dart /dɑːt/ 表示“飞奔，猛冲”，英文解释为“a quick, sudden movement”举个🌰：I darted behind the sofa and hid. 我冲到沙发后藏了起来。

📍dart a glance/look at sb/sth = dart a glance/look somewhere 表示“（朝…猛然）看一眼，瞥一眼”举个🌰：She darted an angry look at me. 她狠狠地瞪了我一眼。

“It was like it was his way of letting us know, you know: ‘Hey, I'm still here,’” Rhorer told NPR.

罗勒在接受NPR采访时说：“这就像是他想让我们知道：‘嘿，我还在这里。’”

In the operating room, Miller recalled the case coordinator phoning her supervisor at KODA for help once they saw signs of life. The supervisor insisted that the case coordinator needed to “find another doctor to do it,” Miller recalled.

米勒回忆说，在手术室里，当他们看到有生命迹象时，病例协调员曾给肯塔基州器官捐献机构主管打电话求助。米勒说，主管坚持要求病例协调员“找另一位医生来做手术”。

coordinator /kəʊˈɔː.dɪ.neɪ.tər/ 表示“协调人，统筹者”，英文解释为“someone whose job is to make different groups work together in an organized way to achieve something”举个🌰：We've just appointed a coordinator who will oversee the whole project. 我们刚刚指定了一位监督整个工程的协调人。

Ultimately, the organ retrieval was canceled. Hoover now lives with Rhorer, his legal guardian.

最终，器官摘取手术被取消了。胡佛现在和他的法定监护人罗勒生活在一起。

Hoover is safe, but the shocking moment stuck with KODA workers, some of whom quit after that incident.

胡佛现在很安全，但这令人震惊的时刻仍然困扰着塔基州器官捐献机构的工作人员，其中有些人在事件发生后选择了辞职。

“I've dedicated my entire life to organ donation and transplant. It's very scary to me now that these things are allowed to happen and there's not more in place to protect donors,” organ preservationist Nyckoletta Martin told NPR.

“我一生都致力于器官捐赠和移植，”器官保存专家尼科莱塔·马丁（Nyckoletta Martin）在接受NPR采访时表示。“现在发生这样的事情，却没有更多的措施来保护捐赠者，这让我感到非常害怕。”

transplant /trænˈsplɑːnt/ 表示“（尤指器官的）移植”，英文解释为“a medical operation in which a new organ is put into someone's body”如：a liver/kidney transplant 肝脏/肾脏移植。

也可以表示“移栽；（使）移居”，英文解释为“to move something, or to be moved, from one place or person to another”举个🌰：The plants should be grown indoors until spring, when they can be transplanted outside. 这些植物应该先种在室内，到了春天就可以移栽到外面。

Although she wasn't in that operating room, she told the outlet that she had reviewed the case file because there was a chance she could have been assigned to work the procedure.

虽然她当时不在手术室，但她告诉NPR，她查看了病例档案，因为她有可能被指派参与手术。

procedure /prəˈsiːdʒə(r)/ 1）表示“程序；步骤；常规”，英文解释为“a set of actions that is the official or accepted way of doing something”举个🌰：The company has new procedures for dealing with complaints. 公司采取了新程序处理投诉事宜。

2）表示“医疗处理；手术”，英文解释为“a medical operation”举个🌰：It's a routine/standard surgical procedure. 这是一个普通的外科手术。

Earlier that day, the donor had undergone cardiac catheterization, which is used to evaluate the heart's health before or after a transplant.

当天早些时候，捐赠者曾接受过心脏导管术，用于评估心脏移植前后的健康状况。

undergo /ˌʌn.dəˈɡəʊ/ 表示“经历，经受（令人不快的事或变化） ”，英文解释为“to experience something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change”举个🌰：Playing board games is undergoing a revival in popularity. 棋盘游戏正经历着一场复兴。

🎬电影《白日梦想家》（The Secret Life of Walter Mitty）中的台词提到：But as we undergo this transition to LIFE online... we wanted to be candid with you... 但由于我们处于"生活"杂志网络化的过渡期...所以我们想明白告诉你们...

cardiac /ˈkɑː.di.æk/ 表示“心脏的；心脏病的”，英文解释为“of the heart or heart disease”

catheterization /ˌkæθ.ə.tə.raɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ 表示“导管插入术”，英文解释为“the process of putting a tube into the body to allow fluids to pass or to make a passage wider”

“The donor had woken up during his procedure that morning for a cardiac catheterization. And he was thrashing around on the table,” Martin said. But then, doctors sedated the patient and continued to plan to recover his organs, she added.

“那天早上，捐献者在接受心脏导管术时醒了过来。他在手术台上挣扎，”马丁说。但随后，医生给病人注射了镇静剂，并计划继续摘取其器官，她补充说。

sedate /sɪˈdeɪt/ 表示“给…服镇静药”，英文解释为“to cause a person or animal to be very calm or go to sleep by giving them a drug”举个🌰：When I saw him after the accident he was still in shock and was heavily sedated. 事故之后我见到他时，他还处于惊吓之中，服了大量的镇静药。

“That's everybody's worst nightmare, right? Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone is going to cut you open and take your body parts out?” Martin told NPR. “That's horrifying.”

“这是每个人最可怕的噩梦，对吧？在手术过程中还活着，却知道有人要把你切开，取出你的身体器官？”马丁告诉NPR。“这太可怕了。”

surgery /ˈsɜː.dʒər.i/ 表示“外科手术”，英文解释为“the treatment of injuries or diseases in people or animals by cutting open the body and removing or repairing the damaged part”举个🌰：The patient had/underwent surgery on his heart. 这位病人接受了心脏外科手术。

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