BBC Learning English - Hazardous Drinking 危险性饮酒

　　Feifei: Did you hear that Jo? One of them drinks fifty pints most weeks, fifty pints! That’s a lot!

　　Jo: Absolutely! Your body won’t be able to digest so much alcohol.

　　Feifei: So how much should we drink? BBC 记者 Rob Sissons 告诉我们答案。

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　　For women, six pints of 4.1% alcohol lager or six small pub glasses of 13% wine; for men, it’s twenty-one units a week, nine pints of this larger, and remember medical advice is not to have more than three or four units a day.

　　Jo: Six pints of 4.1% alcohol lager for women and nine pints for men.

　　Feifei: What’s lager Jo?

　　Jo: Lager is a type of beer which is pale in colour and usually contains a lot of bubbles.

　　Feifei: Lager 是一种颜色较淡有很多泡沫的啤酒。医生给我们的建议是每天饮酒不要超过三个或四个单位，unit 是一个计量单位词。那如果超过这个饮酒量了呢？

　　Jo: Here is Professor Mark Bellis, the director of the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University.

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　　For a man, if you’re drinking more than – if you think of it as more than two bottles of wine in a week; and for a woman over about a bottle and half in a week, then you are really starting to head into the bottom end of hazardous drinking.

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