We are not talking about the cure for cancer, but it does have it within it to help us make sense of things.

虽然诗歌不能治愈癌症,但它确实能够帮助我们理解事物。

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You wanted to be finding the cure for cancer, but you're not actually finding the cure for cancer.

你想找到治疗癌症的方法，但你实际上没有在找治疗癌症的方法。

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It was easy to tell if somebody had an infectious disease but you might not have known that they had cancer at that time and they just died.

如果有人患有感染性疾病,那很容易判断,但在那个时候医生可能不知道,病人得的就是癌症,病人就这么死去了

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