Autopsy performed on Hollywood actor Jeff Conaway

     LOS ANGELES, May 28 (Xinhua) -- The Los Angeles County coroner's office has performed an autopsy¹ on Saturday to determine what killed actor Jeff Conaway who passed away at age 60, authorities said.

    However, the findings were not expected soon as it could take six to eight weeks for toxicology tests to produce results, according to officials from the coroner's office.

    Jeff Conaway, best known for his roles in the 70s' hit television series "Taxi" and blockbuster film "Grease," died at an Encino hospital in southern California Friday morning.

    The former child star began acting² on Broadway when he was only two years old. His family took him off life support on Thursday night.

    Conaway was hospitalized earlier this month after being found unconscious at an Encino Apartment by his girlfriend Vikki Lizzi on May 11 due to a reported drug overdose.

    "Celebrity³ Rehab" host Drew Pinsky, who treated Conaway on the show in 2008, tweeted that Conaway had not overdosed, but was suffering from a combination of pneumonia⁴ and sepsis. Conaway had been placed in a medically induced coma⁵, according to Pinsky. The actor never recovered from his coma and was pronounced dead on Friday.

    Conaway's condition was inevitable⁶ because he had been a serious pill popper for years and the constant substance abuse wore down his body, Pinsky said, according to celebrity web portal TMZ.com.

    His career was plagued with substance abuse problems since the mid⁷ 1980s. The actor suffered a back injury while filming "Grease," which led to an addiction⁸ to painkillers⁹.

    On VH1's reality series "Celebrity Rehab," he admitted addictions¹⁰ to cocaine¹¹, alcohol and painkillers, making viewers shocked. He appeared on the second series of the show and was often seen in a wheelchair as his condition and addictions seemed to worsen.

    Conaway suffered a near fatal fall that caused a brain hemorrhage and neck and hip¹² fractures that he struggled to recover from in 2010.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 autopsy   

n.尸体解剖；尸检

参考例句：

• They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
• A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

2 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

3 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。

4 pneumonia   

n.肺炎

参考例句：

• Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
• Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。

5 coma   

n.昏迷，昏迷状态

参考例句：

• The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
• She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。

6 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

7 mid   

adj.中央的，中间的

参考例句：

• Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
• He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。

8 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。

9 painkillers   

n.止痛药( painkiller的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The doctor gave him some painkillers to ease the pain. 医生给了他一些止疼片以减缓疼痛。 来自辞典例句
• The primary painkillers - opiates, like OxyContin - are widely feared, misunderstood and underused. 人们对主要的镇痛药——如鸦片剂奥施康定——存在广泛的恐惧、误解，因此没有充分利用。 来自时文部分

10 addictions   

瘾( addiction的名词复数 )； 吸毒成瘾； 沉溺； 癖好

参考例句：

• He has removed the stigma of drug addictions. 他已经洗去吸毒的污点了。
• Intelligent people are good at using reason to control excessive addictions. 智慧的人善于用理性来控制过度的嗜欲。

11 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

12 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。