那么现在，在这些文章所写数年之后，我们能把五六十年前的语言能力和在生命晚期疾病程度联系在一起。

So now, years after the essays were written, we can correlate language abilities from 50 or 60 years ago with level of disease at the end of life.

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但是，这些疾病也需要在早期加以发现和治疗，以尽量减少带来的后果。那些患有晚期疾病的病人需要得到适当的长期医护和支持。

But these diseases also need to be detected and treated early to minimize their consequences, and those who have an advanced disease will need decent long term care and support.

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注意早期体征和症状（例如对宫颈癌、乳腺癌和口腔癌），以便在疾病进入晚期之前促进诊断和治疗。

The awareness of early signs and symptoms (such as cervical, breast and oral cancers) in order to facilitate diagnosis and treatment before the disease becomes advanced.

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We then have to get down to facts about cases, try to describe the instance, perhaps somebody who's in the terminal stages of some illness where they're in a great deal of pain.

然后我们要区分各种情况，尝试描述某个特定的例子，也许某人在某种疾病的晚期,他们在承受巨大的痛苦。

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