Unit4DealingwithAIDS課文翻譯綜合教程一

1、百度文庫-讓每個(gè)人平等地提升自我Unit 4 Dealing with AIDSDealing with AIDS strengthens the bond of friendship, encourages emotional and mature growth. Before the sixteenth of October 1995, I was the most carefree person in the world. I had no worries and was just living life up. I never thought that anything could h

2、appen to me or my friends. We were invincible. That is, until the word AIDS came into my life.For 10 years David and I were the best of friends. Then we got to high school and things started to change. We were in different classes, so we didn't hang out as much. It bothered me but I thought that

3、 we were both just growing up, and there were more friends where he came from. Then I began to notice that he wasn't in school a lot, and was sick more than usual. So I called him and he hung up on me. I didn't know what to do, so once again I blew it off. Then one day I saw David in the mal

4、l and I confronted him as to why we were not friends anymore. He pulled me aside and broke down in tears and said that he was dying. I didn't believe him. Sure, I had heard about AIDS, but that it was a homosexual disease and it didn't affect young people, so I said that it was a sick joke a

5、nd left.When I got home things started to make sense. I ran to my room and cried. David was only 17; he couldn't die. Then I felt so bad that we had grown so far apart. I called David, asking him to come over so we could talk. When he came over I saw a seriousness in him that I had never seen be

6、fore. He looked so old, too old for his age. I asked how it happened. David had had unprotected sex once and now had to pay with his life. I was so angry. I have never felt so powerless in my whole life. When things had gone wrong before this, I could always rely on my parents to make things better.

7、 There was nothing that they could do this time. I had to handle it all on my own.David and I became very close again, and it seemed that I was the only one there for him.David made the decision to tell people about his disease. There was no use in hiding it; sooner or later people would find out. P

8、eople looked at him as if he had a plague, and our friends from school wanted nothing to do with him. Soon after that they wanted nothing to do with me. All of a sudden I felt that I had the disease. I didn't know what to do. My whole life was changing so fast that I couldn't keep up. Once a

9、gain I was growing up and realized that our friendship meant everything to me. Also, I couldn't turn my back on him when he needed me the most. So I stuck it out and lost most of my friends. The ones that still talked with me didn't come too close in fear that they would catch the disease. T

10、he thing was, I didn't even have AIDS, so why did my friends treat me like this? I was being treated this way because teenagers are not used to dealing with situations like this, and don't know how to react. So how could I blame them since I would have done the same thing?As time went on, Da

11、vid became very ill. There was nothing that I could do but watch him die. David found out that he had full blown AIDS. This to me meant death was sure to come and all too quickly. I wasn't ready to let him die, not yet anyway. There was so many things that I wanted to do and say, but couldn'

12、t find the words. I went to doctor after doctor with him, and saw him go through so much. Everyone said that I must keep a positive attitude for his sake, because attitude means everything. So, in times of stress I was the one that had to keep things together. I pushed all my emotions aside and was

13、strong for him.My mom had had a trip planned for the whole family for some time now, and still wanted to go. She thought that the trip would do me good; she said that I was not the one that was dying. I couldn't believe that she said that to me, but to make her happy I went. We were gone for abu

14、t 2weeks, and when I came back the first thing I did was go to see David. That was when I saw AIDS for the first time. I didn't even recognize him. David had lost weight, had purple lesions all over his body, and was very pale. He couldn't even get up when he saw me. He was bedridden. I stil

15、l had to be the strong one and keep everything in. I had brought him stuff from the ocean, his favorite place. We talked about my trip and anything else we could think of. Then he fell asleep because he could no longer stay awake for long periods of time.On the second of May 1996, David was put in t

16、he hospital. This gave him the feeling that there was no more hope left, and that he was going to die. I still had to maintain my positive outlook for him. He needed that in me. One day he looked at me and said, "Faye, I am dying; let's accept that and deal with it. I know what I did was wr

17、ong and now I have to deal with it. All I want you to do is to remember me, enjoy life and be careful." For the first time in front of him, I cried. I knew that it wouldn't be long before he was gone forever. He shouldn't have to deal with this at such a young age. Towards the end of Ma

18、y he became so sick that the hospital staff had a bubble around him, so he wouldn't catch our bad germs. I hated to see him like that, and every day it became worse. I had come to realize that any day now he would die. At night I would wonder if he would make it through. School was over now, so

19、I spent every hour I could in the hospital. He was everything to me. I felt bad for the time that we had lost and how I wasn't even going to fight for our friendship.The fifth of June, 1996 marked the end of my best friend David's life. He went peacefully. That was a comfort all in its own.

20、In a way I was glad that it was over, for he was no longer in pain. All the emotions that I had held in came rushing out as I realized that I would never see David again. His mother said that I had kept him alive and that she was grateful that I was her son's last friend. It hasn't been a ye

21、ar yet, but I have done so much since then that I am no longer that carefree teenager. I now educate people about AIDS, which to me is keeping David's memory alive. Even though David is gone, he is still with me and always will be in mind and spirit.應(yīng)對(duì)艾滋病抵抗艾滋病可以加深友誼， 增進(jìn)情感交流和促進(jìn)人們成熟。 在1995年l0月16日之

22、前， 我是這個(gè)世界上最無憂無慮的人，我沒有什么擔(dān)憂，只知道享受生活。 我從來沒想過任何事情會(huì)發(fā)生到我或朋友們身上。我們是所向無敵的。直到艾滋病這個(gè)詞進(jìn)入我的生活。我和戴維做最好的朋友有十年了。但是上了高中之后， 事情起了變化。因?yàn)槲覀冊(cè)诓煌陌?，所以不?jīng)常一起出去玩。 這讓我有點(diǎn)煩，但我想我們?cè)跐u漸長大，而且他會(huì)遇見更多 的朋友。然后，我開始注意到他經(jīng)常不上學(xué)，而且生病比以前多些。 因此，我給他打電話.但他給掛了。我不知道該怎么辦，所以就又一次沒管這事。然后有一天我在商場遇見他，就走 過去當(dāng)面問他為什么我們不再是好朋友了。他把我拽到一邊，失控地哭著告訴我他快要死了。我不相信他。確實(shí)，我聽說過艾

23、滋病，但是它是一種同性戀疾病并且不會(huì)感染年輕人，所以我對(duì)他說這是一個(gè)惡心的玩笑后就離開了?；氐郊液?，事情開始變得明朗。我跑到我的房問，哭了。戴維只有17歲；他不能死。然后我對(duì)于我們變得如此遙遠(yuǎn)感到悲傷。我給戴維打了個(gè)電話，要他過來說說話。他到了之后，我發(fā)現(xiàn)他病得很嚴(yán)重，而這一點(diǎn)我以前從未注意到。他看起來很老，老過了他實(shí)際的年齡。我問他到底怎么回事。戴維曾經(jīng)有一次未采取保護(hù)措施的性行為，而現(xiàn)在他要用一條命來為此付出代價(jià)。我很生氣。在我整個(gè)生命中，我從未感到如此無能為力。在這之前，若事 情出了差錯(cuò)，我總是可以依靠父母來彌補(bǔ)。這一次他們也無能為力。 我不得不自己來應(yīng)對(duì)這一切。戴維和我再一次走得很近了

24、，對(duì)他來說，好像我是他身邊唯一的人。戴維決定告訴人們他的病情。隱藏是沒有用的；遲早人們會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)事實(shí)。接著人們看待他就好像他有瘟疫一樣， 并且學(xué)校里我們的朋友都不想和他有任何關(guān)系。很快，他們也不想和我有任何關(guān)系了。 突然，我覺得好像我也得了這個(gè)病了。我不知道該做些什么。我的整個(gè)生活變化地如此之快，讓我無法跟上。我又一次感覺長大了并且意識(shí)到我們的友誼對(duì)我來說意味著一切。同時(shí)，在他最需要我的時(shí)刻，我不能拒絕他。所以我堅(jiān)持到最后，而且失去了我的大多數(shù)朋友。仍然和我講話的朋友們不敢靠得太近，因?yàn)樗麄兒ε赂腥具@種病。可是事實(shí)是，我根本沒有得艾滋病， 為什么我的朋友們這樣對(duì)待我？我之所以被這樣對(duì)待是因?yàn)槭畮讱q

25、的青少年還不習(xí)慣應(yīng)對(duì) 這種情況，而且不知道該怎么做出反應(yīng)。因此，我不能責(zé)備他們，因?yàn)閾Q作是我，也會(huì)做同 樣的事。隨著時(shí)間的流逝。戴維的病越來越重。 除了看著他死去，我什么也做不了。戴維發(fā)現(xiàn)他 已經(jīng)到了艾滋病晚期。對(duì)我采說，這意味著死亡肯定會(huì)來臨并且一切都太快了。我還沒準(zhǔn)備好讓他死去，無論如何還沒有。我有那么多的事想去做， 那么多的話想說， 但找不到合適的表達(dá)。我和他去看一個(gè)又一個(gè)的醫(yī)生，看著他忍受了這么多。每一個(gè)人都說，為了他，我必 須保持積極的態(tài)度， 因?yàn)閼B(tài)度意味著一切。因此，在無數(shù)次壓力中，我必須將所有的事歸攏到一起。我把所有的情感放到一邊，全力支持他。媽媽在前一陣子就為整個(gè)家庭規(guī)劃了 一次旅行，她現(xiàn)在仍然想去；她覺得旅行對(duì)我有好處I她說我不是那個(gè)即將死