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The Clinic at the Corner of the Street

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Shanghai is turning its 246 community health centres from places that hand out medicine into full health services close to home.

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The Clinic at the Corner of the Street

When people in China feel unwell, many go straight to a large hospital. Even for a small problem they may queue for hours, because they believe that is where good medicine is. Shanghai is trying to change this habit. The city now has 246 community health centres, and these small clinics are doing far more than handing out medicine.

Many of them have been given new rooms and new equipment. One hundred centres now have a standard operating room where doctors can clean and stitch a wound, take out a nail, or remove a small lump. Each of these rooms handles about 125 small operations a month. Care that used to fill hospital corridors is now handled a few streets away.

Care for older people has moved closer to home as well. One hundred and fifty-five centres offer rehabilitation, and one hundred and ninety offer nursing, including specialist services such as wound care. Home beds allow patients to be treated in their own flat, and by the end of 2025 the city had set up 106,300 of them. Family doctors have signed up more than 12.6 million residents.

Trust, however, is harder to build than a building. One community doctor kept more than fifty keys to his patients’ homes, given to him because families trusted him to come in when they could not open the door. Those keys are now kept in a national museum. Shanghai wants more doctors of that kind. Its plan says every centre should have at least one special clinic by 2030.

A strong health system needs more than a few famous hospitals. It also needs small, trusted places close to where people live. Shanghai’s goal is clear: a community centre should not be a shop where you only collect pills, but a guard of a family’s health, from a child’s first check to an old person’s last years.

Words to know:

长难句拆解 · 插入语与层层嵌套的从句

第一句:Trust, however, is harder to build than a building. 主干是 Trust is harder to build than a building。however 是表示转折的副词,用两个逗号夹住插在主语和谓语之间,读的时候可以先把主句连起来看。than a building 是比较结构,比的是「建造的难度」;building 与前面的 build 同根,一虚一实,是英文评论句里常见的小巧思,中文很难完全照搬,只能意译出对比关系。 直译:然而,信任比一栋建筑更难建立。

第二句:One community doctor kept more than fifty keys to his patients’ homes, given to him because families trusted him to come in when they could not open the door. 主干只有 One community doctor kept more than fifty keys;to his patients’ homes 是介词短语作后置定语修饰 keys。逗号后的 given to him… 是过去分词短语,继续修饰 keys,内部又套着 because 引导的原因状语从句,从句里再套一个 when 引导的时间状语从句。一层套一层是英文长句的典型写法,翻译时要按中文习惯拆成短句。 直译:一位社区医生手里有五十多把他患者家的钥匙,这些钥匙是家属交给他的,因为他们相信,在打不开门的时候他会进来。

同义替换 · 雅思阅读利器

雅思阅读的题干很少照抄原文,它更喜欢把同一个意思换一种说法。下面这些替换在本题材里很常见,先自己盖住右边,试着回忆。

  • go straight to a large hospital → head for a big hospital at once(就医习惯的改写)
  • far more than handing out medicine → much more than giving out pills(功能不止配药的释义)
  • Care that used to fill hospital corridors → work that once crowded the big hospitals(大医院人满为患的替换)
  • handled a few streets away → dealt with close to home(就近处理的改写)
  • Trust is harder to build than a building → trust cannot be built like a wall(信任难建的释义)
  • signed up more than 12.6 million residents → more than 12.6 million people have joined(签约的替换表达)
  • a guard of a family’s health → the one who protects a family’s health(健康守门人的改写)
阅读自测 · 3 题
  1. 判断正误:Shanghai’s community health centres now mainly hand out medicine to residents.
  2. 简答:What can doctors do in the standard operating rooms of these centres?
  3. 选词填空:The community doctor kept more than fifty ____ to his patients’ homes. (A. keys B. rooms C. beds)
参考答案与解析
  1. False(错误)。原文说 these small clinics are doing far more than handing out medicine,后面还列举了门诊手术、康复、护理和家庭病床等服务。题干用 mainly hand out medicine 把「远不止配药」偷换成「主要是配药」,属典型的「偷换结论」干扰项。
  2. They can clean and stitch a wound, take out a nail, or remove a small lump.(他们可以清创缝合、拔甲,或者切除小的浅表肿物。)原文用 where 引导的定语从句直接列出三件事,定位 standard operating room 即可。
  3. A. keys。原文为 One community doctor kept more than fifty keys to his patients’ homes。B 的 rooms 出自标准化门诊手术室一句、C 的 beds 出自家庭病床一句,都是文中原词,但与 kept… to his patients’ homes 搭配不通,属「偷换对象」的干扰项。
中文译文

在中国,人们身体不舒服时,很多人会直接去大医院。哪怕只是小毛病,他们也可能排上几个小时的队,因为他们相信好医生就在那里。上海正试图改变这种习惯。这座城市如今拥有 246 家社区卫生服务中心,而这些小诊所做的事远不止配药。

其中许多中心配备了新的房间和设备。100 家中心现在拥有标准化门诊手术室,医生可以在那里清创缝合、拔甲,或者切除小的浅表肿物。每间这样的手术室平均每月开展约 125 例小手术。过去挤满大医院走廊的诊疗,如今在几条街外就能完成。

老年人的照护同样搬到了离家更近的地方。155 家中心提供康复服务,190 家提供护理服务,其中包括伤口护理等专科服务。家庭病床让患者可以在自己家里接受治疗,截至 2025 年底,全市已建床 10.63 万张。家庭医生累计签约居民超过 1260 万人。

然而,信任比一栋建筑更难建立。一位社区医生手里有五十多把他患者家的钥匙,这些钥匙是家属交给他的,因为他们相信,在打不开门的时候他会进来。这些钥匙如今被国家博物馆收藏。上海需要更多这样的医生。按照规划,到 2030 年每家中心都应建成至少一个特色诊室。

一个强大的医疗体系,靠的不只是几所名院。它还需要许多离家很近、值得信任的小地方。上海的目标很清楚:社区卫生服务中心不该只是一家领药的店,而应成为家庭健康的守门人——从孩子的第一次体检,到老人的最后几年。