霍金被诊断出患有绝症。
知道他们自己病情的真相之后一些患绝症的病人可能会放弃治疗。
Some patients with incurable diseases might want to give up treatment after knowing the truth about their conditions.
当你面对绝症时想到死亡是很正常的。
It's not unusual to think about death when you're confronted with an illness that threatens life.
人可以从癌症当中复原；这并不是绝症。
People can recover from cancer; it's not the end of the world.
所以，爱比绝症更加强大。
医生告诉患者他得了绝症，只能再活两个月。
The doctor told the patient he had a fatal disease and only had two months to live.
假如是得了不治之症(or：绝症)，情况就不相同了。
基因治疗作为一种新的治疗手段，给许多绝症患者带来希望。
As a novel way of treatment, gene therapy bring a new hope for many incurable patients.
她病了很久，我们甚至都不知道她的病是什么时候转为绝症的。
She had been ailing for quite a long time, and we did not even know when her malady had taken a fatal turn.
医生们正越来越意识到对绝症患者感受的认识和反应的重要性。
Physicians have become increasingly aware of the importance of recognizing and responding to the feelings of people with life-threatening illnesses.
现在科学家正在实验基因疗法和其他目前专用来治疗绝症的方法。
Today scientists are experimenting with gene therapy and other methods that had, until now, been reserved for deadly illnesses.
在良好条件下出生和长大的人，他们在晚年得慢性病和绝症的比率明显更低。
People born and raised under favorable conditions show substantially lower rates of chronic and fatal diseases later in life.
从参与处理国内第一例艾滋病患者开始，关宝英与这种敏感的绝症打了23年交道。
From the first involved in the handling of cases of AIDS began, Guan Baoying with such sensitive playing an incurable disease for 23 years dealings.
科学家已经发现如何通过编辑DNA来修复“受损基因”，从而治愈绝症并有可能延长人类寿命。
Scientists have discovered how to edit DNA to repair 'broken genes' to cure incurable diseases - and potentially extend human lifespan.
当医生直白地告诉病人，他因为绝症将要走到生命的尽头的时候，患者通常会选择拒绝过分密集的医疗介入。
This showed that when doctors had frank conversations about the end of life with terminally ill cancer patients, the patients typically chose not to request very intensive medical interventions.
许多人没有认识到，在他们抱怨一个疼痛的身体或一个绝症之前，他们就已经先抱怨别的事情了。
Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first.
Mr Rogoff把形势比作一个绝症病人接受一项有风险的治疗，也许能冶好但确定会有严重的、长期的副作用。
Mr Rogoff likens the situation to that of a terminally ill patient who is offered a risky treatment that may cure the disease but is sure to have nasty long-term side-effects.
鲍勃·麦科伊指出，当今由电脑和数以百计的电视频道构成的“信息时代”，使得针对身患绝症者的各种骗术更变本加厉。
Bob McCay points out that the current "Information Age" of computers and hundreds of television channels has only multiplied fraudulent schemes that target desperately sick people.
但是我们不曾看见过地震、饥荒、瘟疫(即绝症)在同一时间的不同地区发生，如同我们现今的时代中在我们周围所发生的。
But we have not seen the earthquakes and famines and pestilences (incurable disease) occur at the same time in diverse places, like they are happening around us right now.
他的二年级老师写到：“泰蒂是很优秀的学生，很受同学们喜爱。”但他母亲得了绝症，他为此而担忧，家里的生活一定很艰苦。
His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates, but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle."
在她之后的那些人似乎都是普通人：一个公交司机、一个医生、一个枕头厂的检查员，等等，全都患有绝症或他们相信自己患有绝症。
Those who followed her seemed unremarkable: a bus driver, a doctor, a supervisor at a pillow factory and so on, all terminally ill, or so they believed.
1947年，肺结核无异于绝症，医生嘱咐他多呼吸新鲜空气和注意有规律的日常饮食。但市面上出现了一种新的试验性药物——链霉素。
In 1947 there was no cure for TB - doctors prescribed fresh air and a regular diet - but there was a new, experimental drug on the market, streptomycin.
1947年，肺结核无异于绝症，医生嘱咐他多呼吸新鲜空气和注意有规律的日常饮食。但市面上出现了一种新的试验性药物——链霉素。
In 1947 there was no cure for TB - doctors prescribed fresh air and a regular diet - but there was a new, experimental drug on the market, streptomycin.
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