夏说英语新闻晨读 第552期:机器人替代不了的事

 A doctor in California told a patient he was going to die, using a robot with a video-link screen. Ernest Quintana, 78, was at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fremont when a doctor—appearing on the robot's screen - informed him that he would die within a few days. A family friend wrote on social media that it was “not the way to show value and compassion¹ to a patient”. The hospital says it “regrets falling short” of the family's expectations.

patient adj. 耐心的
patience: n. 耐心
robot: n. 机器人
compassion: n. 同情
sympathy: n. 同情
fall short of：差池

1 compassion   

n.同情，怜悯

参考例句：

• He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
• Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。