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I came along fine, gained ten pounds and really felt good. Then, on January 3, I thought I had caught a cold.
我恢復得不錯，體重增加了10鎊，自我感覺很好。后來，到了 1月3日，我覺得自己感冒了。
I went to my surgeon, who tap a quart of fluid from my left chest cavity.
我去找為我治療的外科醫生，他從我的左胸腔里抽出了一夸特積液。
I went back several times, and my surgeon said, "The time is drawing closer."
我又去看了好幾次，醫生說:“活不長了。”
Later, my wife told me he had told her after the operation that I had less than a year to live. But she wouldn't believe it, and she didn't tell me. I find no fault with that.
后來我妻子告訴我，他在手術后跟她說，我活不到一年了。可她怎么也不相信，就沒告訴我。她那樣做，我不怪她。
There are four cell types of lung cancer. The type seems to have a lot to do with its rate of growth. My doctor told me this; he also said that out of every 20 lung-cancer cases only one survives. The other 19 die.
肺癌細胞有四種。這種分類似乎主要依據其生長的速度。我的醫生是這么跟我說的，他還說20例肺癌病人當中，只有一人能存活，其他19人死亡。
That's the survival rate for lung cancer, taking into consideration all available forms of treatment. There is no 50-50 chance - the figure for other cancers - for this type of cancer.
即使考慮到現有的各種可能的治療方法，肺癌的存活率也只能如此了。別的癌癥可以有一半的存活可能，可這類癌癥卻不行。
My doctor is enthusiastic about getting people to quit cigarettes. He says that there's no question of the relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. The statistics are overwhelming. It is estimated that one in every eight males who have been smoking heavily(20 cigarettes or more a day) for 20 years gets lung cancer.
我的醫生熱衷于鼓勵人們戒煙。他說毫無疑問，肺癌和吸煙有關。統計數字非常令人信服。據估算，有20年重煙癮(每天抽20支以上)的男子,8個中有一個會得肺癌。
The bad effect of cigarettes doesn't end with lung cancer. Smoking doubles the chances of death from heart disease, and the chances of dying from emphysema are 12 times greater.
抽煙的嚴重后果還不止于肺癌。抽煙使死于心臟病的可能性增加一倍，使死于肺氣腫的可能性增加12倍。
