想問一篇''Aspirin''的英文文章

Question

1.Aspirin is used everywhere in the world – but it’s anything but “ordinary.”
''but it’s anything but “ordinary.”''這要如何翻才符合原意呢?

2.These hormones help get important messages to your brain – such as “this hurts” or “turn on the fever.” Aspirin cuts the phone line, so to speak – it blocks these messages before they get sent to your brain.
我不太懂''turn on the fever.''跟'' Aspirin cuts the phone line, so to speak''
在這裡的解釋

以上還請大大解惑之

原文: http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/48973/how-aspirin-works

Answer 1

你打的出現太多亂碼。我找出原文重貼﹕
Aspirin is used everywhere in the world – but it’s anything but “ordinary.”
阿斯匹靈在全世界被使用，不過它一點也不尋常。
Anything but xxx是常用的片語。照字面翻譯就是「除了xxx以外什麼都是」，就是說它一點也不xxx的意思。

These hormones help get important messages to your brain – such as “this hurts” or “turn on the fever.” Aspirin cuts the phone line, so to speak – it blocks these messages before they get sent to your brain.
這段是說阿斯匹靈的功用，是阻隔人體不適時產生的賀爾蒙傳遞到腦裏。他舉的兩個例子是﹕「這裏好痛！」(this hurts)，和「開始發燒吧！」(turn on the fever)。他用電話的比喻，來說明訊息的傳達到腦部。阿斯匹靈就像把電話線切斷一樣，阻絕這些訊息傳到你腦部。這是cut the phone line的意思。So to speak是另一個英文常用片語，類似中文的口頭說的「就好比...」。