他惊恐失色地问医生是否认定他患了癌症。

With a look of horror, he asked if the doctor thought he had cancer.

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她发誓，她给治疗自己的医生起了外号（绝顶好医生和古鲁医生），她甚至让每一秒都听起来很有趣（她称它们为“癌症公路旅行”）。

She swears, she makes up names for the people who treat her (Dr. Fabulous and Dr. Guru), and she even makes second sound fun ("cancer road trips," she calls them).

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他因为受伤去看医生，当他得知自己患了癌症时，他很惊讶。

He went to the doctor because of his injuries and was surprised when he discovered that he had cancer.

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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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He'd been diagnosed with, if I recall correctly, cancer as a freshmen--and his doctor had told him that he pretty much had no chance of recovery and indeed had only a couple more years to live.

他大一的时候就被诊断出癌症，如果我没记错的话--他的医生告诉他,他基本上没有治愈的可能了,并且实际上只有几年时间存活了。

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