医生告诉她，婴儿没有存活的机会，但如果继续妊娠，该名女子有感染的风险，这可能导致败血症而死亡。So she did: booking a seat， as advised， near the toilets in case she went into labour. She reached the clinic in time and is now healthy. But things could have turned out differently， if she had not had the cash for a plane ticket， say， or if no clinic had been able to give her an appointment. “It is barbaric to put a woman in distress on a plane to another state，” says Carole Joffe， a professor at the Bixby Centre for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California， San Francisco. “It is not how you do medicine in a civilised country.”
不悔岁月，每天进步一点点at the eleventh hour在危机关头/在最后关头at sixes and sevens乱七八糟as dumb as an oyster醉很紧/不会漏嘴a sixty-four doller question最后的也是最难回答的问题/最重要的问
ADJ If you describe the speed or amount of something as indecent， you are indicating， often in a humorous way， that it is much quicker or larger than is usual or desirable. 过于 的。转载《有道词典》，如有侵权请通知删除。
例 Liberty is not easy， but far better to be an unfettered fox， hungry and threatened on its hill，than a well-fed canary， safe and secure in its cage.
e.g. Our office drama queen yet again made the melodramatic declaration that she was contemplating suicide.我们办公室的“影后”又一次在危言耸听了: 这回她说她准备自杀。
