外科手术不用麻醉用催眠?

短语讲解：

1. This patient may be going under the surgeon's knife, but as far as her mind is concerned, she's many miles away from here.

as far as只要
例句：As far as possible, he will help you.
只要可能, 他会帮助你的。

2. The anesthetist here is more interested in keeping her mind in an altered state, rather than calculating how to keep her unconscious with drugs.

be interested in对…感兴趣
例句：He is interested in reading novel.
他对看小说很感兴趣。
rather than而不是...
例句：They thus increased their annual grain production rather than diminished it.
他们这样增加了而不是减少了粮食年产量。

3. This team now uses hypnosis combined with a local anesthetic to dull the patient's sense of pain.

combine with与…结合
例句：If your talent combines with diligence, you can excel in your pursuit.
如果你把天赋与勤奋结合起来, 你所追求的事业便会出类拔萃。

4. Here in Brussels, St Luc Hospital hopes to expand the technique to procedures like hernias, knee arthroscopies and plastic surgery procedures.

plastic surgery整形手术
例句：He is a plastic surgery specialist.
他是个整形外科医生。

5. According to anesthetist Dr. Fabienne Roelantz hypnosis is a modified state of consciousness.

according to据（…所说）；按（…所报道）
例句：According to her, grandfather called at noon.
据她说,祖父在中午打来电话。

6. They say this would result in the patient needing swift sedation anyway.

result in导致,结果是
例句：The flood resulted in a considerable reduction in production.
这次水灾造成相当大的减产。

7. Associate Professor Guy Montgomery at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Centre says there are a host of reasons why it's not more popular amongst medical practitioners.

a host of许多 一大群
例句：We are faced with a host of difficulties.
我们面临着许多困难。

8. The providers have to be comfortable with the idea of using hypnosis intervention and recommending it and know the literature and the research well enough to say you know what this is not just a parlour trick, it's not just something that's done in the entertainment industry or in a creative movie plot but rather it's something that can be used and can be highly effective to improve our patients quality of life.

but rather相反地
例句：The patient was no better but rather grew worse.
病人的情况不但没有见好, 反而恶化了。

9. But even in Brussels the team says hypnosis can't and should not be used for complicated surgery which is likely to last more than three hours.

be used for用来做…
例句：Nickel can be used for making coins.
镍可做成钱币。