Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.

  • -- Rebecca Skloot 瑞贝卡·斯克鲁

黑人病人的治疗要晚得多。他们通常没有得到白人病人会得到的那种疼痛管理,而且他们死于疾病的几率更大。

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On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

相反,如果他们得到公正和人道的对待,得到适当的榜样和给予他们的教育的好处,未来的岁月对不幸的种族将象过去的黑暗和痛苦一样光明和繁荣。

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

在我看来,一个时代的某些东西,即使是它本身,无论如何都是值得尊敬的,必须引起人们的尊敬,而且受到虐待,比世界上任何东西都更坏、更残酷、更邪恶。

I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

我在曼彻斯特长大,我们家很穷。我的父亲是一名矿工,他在战争期间加入了海军,后来得了肺病,不得不做肺切除手术。

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

作为病人和消费者,我们今天比上一代人更了解我们的医疗保健。

With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.

有了这种病,我们很容易就放弃了,这是我们能做的最糟糕的事情。

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

我不擅长马上聊天。我想,女人必须对我很有耐心。