青岛大学研究生入学考试英语专业翻译考试试题.doc

Translate the underlined parts into Chinese: Life, the Universe and Cancerous ThingsJackie Swift1. I am 42, which according to Douglas Adams in The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy is the answer to the question about the meaning of life. In my case the answer is cancer. Breast cancer and I have a feeling that Adams might just approve of such an answer were he still alive to hear it.2. I am slightly younger than the average age for this encounter, but not uniquely so. Every day someone is diagnosed with cancer. Every day someone dies from it. Recent statistics have us all lasting a lot longer. Early detection is the key to survival, as is treatment. There are still those of us living in denial who, on finding a lump ignore it, hoping it will go away. I met such a lady during treatment. She ignored her lump: now it is huge and the cancer has spread throughout her body. Why did she ignore it? She doesnt know.3. I found my lump during dinner one Saturday evening in February. A slight pain near my left nipple and in rubbing it better I found it. My lump. Not small, not indistinct - clearly something that shouldnt be there. I felt sick, worried all weekend and rang my doctor on Monday. How long had it been there? Had I been ignoring this, not examining my breasts regularly or carefully? But I was sure it was new, that it hadnt been there in December.4. Time then did strange things, as it has been doing ever since. My GP moved quickly, ordering scans, biopsies: an appointment with the specialist. Onto the cancer roller coaster I stepped, taking my family with me. Once malignancy was established the choices narrowed. It had to go. How much breast was to go with it? As it turns out over a third has gone and I have a seven inch scar from left to right, making me look something like a cream bun on the left and a normal round full jam donut on the right. It is not a pretty picture in the bathroom mirror.5. Chemotherapy followed surgery. A decent interval apart. In fact it seemed too long at the time. I just wanted it to be over. All treatment completed and was left behind me so I knew what was to happen for the rest of my life and then get on with it.6. Dont let anyone lie to you: chemotherapy is hideous. It makes your hair fall out, your skin reacts, you ache all over, youre constantly tired, you feel nauseous, constipated, or the other extreme and your predilection for infection rises dramatically. Yes, chemotherapy can kill you.7. Six treatments were set at two weeks apart. During the course of treatment I contracted two chest infections, my veins collapsed and I had to have a transfuse port inserted into my chest. Some days I felt so bad I thought that to die might be easier. Chemotherapy is a blunt instrument and it amazes me in this age of medical advancement and miracles that a regime, which seems to just kill everything indiscriminately in its path, is so commonly used. It is, in fact, integral to successful treatment. 8. Radiation on the other hand is refined and specifically targeted. I am measured up, tattooed and then zapped every day for six weeks. Some discomfort, on-going fatigue, but nowhere near the trauma of chemotherapy.9. I am nearly through the initial cancer woods. Drug therapy and follow-up checks and tests with my doctors lay ahead. Is the cancer through my system? Has it spread from the breast through the lymph nodes to other vulnerable parts? I wont know for some time. Five years they say until the all clear. And then the numbers are on my side. 10. Douglas Adams made it to 49. Perhaps that was his answer to the question of life, the universe and everything? I hope my answer is a much bigger number than that.生命、宇宙和癌症 佳琪斯韦福特我42岁。在里，理查德亚当斯说42岁是生命意义这一问题的答案所在。我的答案是癌症。我和乳腺癌患者都觉得假如理查德亚当斯还在人世能听见我们回答的话，也许会表示赞同的。比起乳腺癌患者的平均年龄，我年轻了一些。不过，我不是唯一这么年轻的患者(绝无仅有的低龄患者)。每天都有人被诊断出癌症。每天都有人死于癌症。最近的数据表明癌症患者的存活时间有所延长。早发现、早治疗是延长生命的关键。我们中有些人抱病生活却漠然置之。她们发现了肿块却不治疗，希望肿块自行消失。我在治疗期间遇见了这样一个女士，她漠视肿块的存在，现在肿块很大了而且癌细胞已扩散至全身。她为什么不治疗呢？她自己也不知道。 二月的一个星期六晚上我发现了肿块。左乳头周围有点痛感，再细细模去我发现了肿块。我身上的肿块。不小的肿块，很明显显然它不该在那儿。我感到不适，整个周末都焦虑不安，星期一就给我的医生打去了电话。它在那儿有多久了呢？我是否忽略这一点呢？我是否不做定期乳腺检查或不仔细检查呢？但是，我确信肿块是最近出现的，12月份还没有肿块。在接下来的时间里，我经历了一系列从未经历过的事情，生活从此变了个样。我的家庭医生立刻采取措施，预约肿瘤扫描和活体组织检查的时间，即预约肿瘤专家门诊。我带着家人坐上了癌肿过山车。一旦确诊为恶性肿瘤，治疗方案就明确了。肿瘤必须切除。乳房的切创面有多大？诊断结果要切除三分之一的乳房，从左到右留下7英寸的伤疤，这使我的乳房看上去怪怪的，左边的像一个奶油小圆面包，右边的像一个正常完整的果酱面包圈。这副模样在浴室的镜子里可不怎么漂亮。手术之后是化疗，前后间隔很长一段时间。事实上，这样段时间似乎过于漫长。我只想结束这一切，结束所有的治疗，把治疗都抛在身后，这样能就知道我今后的生活会是一种怎样的情形，知道该怎样度过余生。不要听信别人的话：化疗是很可怕的。化疗导致脱发、皮肤损伤，浑身疼痛、长期身体疲乏、恶心和便秘，还会带来其他强烈的副作用。化疗后，你非常容易受到感染。当然，化疗能致你于死地。我的化疗分为6个疗程，每个疗程之间间隔两周。在化疗期间，我两次胸部感染，静脉血管受损，胸部皮下植入了注射器。有些日子，我非常难受，心想死也许更轻松一些。化疗是一个钝器。让我惊讶的是，化疗似乎对细胞不分好坏，一概灭杀，但在这个医学进步、奇迹频频的时代，它却仍是一种普遍使用的治疗手段。实际上，化疗是成功治疗的一个不可或缺的环节。放疗是另一种疗效较好的治疗手段，药物