A brave Indian boy①

by Ellen Manning/姜仲華（譯）

□語篇導(dǎo)讀

13歲的印度少年Santhosh在被確診患上癌癥之后，將診斷結(jié)果隱藏了起來。他對此是怎樣考慮的呢？他后來又是怎樣同病魔進行斗爭的呢？讀完下文，你將會找到答案，并且你也一定會知道他是一個怎樣的人。

A brave 13-year-old boy hid his cancer diagnosis (診斷結(jié)果)from his parents as he was worried they“could not handle”the news that he might die.

The Indian boy is named only as Santhosh,and his grandmother had died of cancer.Santhosh said,“I don't want to tell anyone about my cancer.My mother knows I am sick but has no idea that I am suffering from cancer.”

But despite his efforts,Santhosh's father has since found out about his disease and is raising money online to fund a much-needed bone marrow(骨髓)transplant for his son,which will apparently cost around 1.5 million Indian Rupees nearly￡18,000.

Santhosh has to travel 500 km to hospitalfor each chemotherapy(化療)treatment and go home the same day as his family cannot afford to rent a room in Bangalore.

But the boy is apparently still attending school,saying:”We have lost my grandmather to cancer and now it has attacked me.I hope I don't die so soon.I don't want to let my family down.”

He wants to continue studies and make his parents happy and he hopes cancer doesn't kill him like it killed his grandmother.

Santhosh has become very weak but he puts up a strong face for his family.He is a brilliant student and very good at sports as well,once a champion basketball player in school.

◆詞語積淀

1.handle/'h?ndl/vt.處理；控制

2.effort/'ef?t/n.努力；努力的成果

3.despite/di'spait/prep.不管；盡管

4.hide from把……藏起來；不讓知道

5.fund/f?nd/vt.為……提供資金；n.資金；基金

6.apparently/?'pe?r?tli/adv.很顯然；顯而易見

◆典句賞析

1.She has no idea that I am suffering from cancer.她不知道我得了癌癥。

(1)have no idea that...相當于don't know that...，表示“不知道……”的意思。又如：I have no idea when he will come back.我不知道他何時回來。

【即時嘗試】這個病人不知道去最近的醫(yī)院怎么走。

(2)suffer from是固定詞組搭配，表示“罹患（……病）；遭受……之苦”的意思。

【即時嘗試】他現(xiàn)在熱得難受。

2.His family cannot afford to rent a room in Bangalore.他的家庭在班加羅爾租不起一間房子。

afford是動詞，表示“負擔(dān)得起（……的費用）”的意思，常用結(jié)構(gòu)：afford(to do)sth.又如：He can't afford to buy a new car.他買不起一輛新的小汽車。

【即時嘗試】那時候，他太窮了念不起書。

3.Santhosh's father has since found out about his disease。從那以來，Santhosh的父親就已經(jīng)弄清楚了他的病情真相。

(1)since是副詞，意思是“從那以來；此后”。since用作副詞時，常用于現(xiàn)在完成時。

【即時嘗試】從那以來，我就一直沒見過她。

(2)find out是“弄清楚；查明白（……的真相）”的意思，有及物和不及物兩種用法。

【即時嘗試】我會設(shè)法查明是誰把窗戶打壞了。

譯文助讀

一個勇敢的13歲印度男孩，悄悄地將自己患上癌癥的診斷結(jié)果藏了起來，他不想讓他的父母知道此事，因為他擔(dān)心他們可能接受不了他會死于癌癥的消息。

這個印度男孩，名字就叫Santhosh，他的奶奶也死于癌癥。Santhosh說：“我不想把我患有癌癥的消息告訴任何人。雖然我媽媽知道我生病了，但是她并不知道我患了癌癥。”

盡管他在努力著，但是他的爸爸還是知道了他的病情，并且一直在網(wǎng)上進行籌款，為他的兒子準備一筆骨髓移植的基金。很明顯，這個手術(shù)大約需要150萬印度盧比，約合1.8萬英鎊。

每次化療，Santhosh都得趕到500公里外的醫(yī)院去，然后當天就回家，因為他們家在班加羅爾租不起一間房子。

但是這個男孩顯然一直在堅持上學(xué)，他說：“癌癥已讓我們失去了奶奶，而它現(xiàn)在又來襲擊我了。我不希望我很快就死去，我也不想我的家人心情不好。”

他想繼續(xù)學(xué)習(xí)，想讓他的父母開開心心；他不希望他像奶奶一樣被癌癥奪去生命。

現(xiàn)在，Santhosh的身體已經(jīng)很虛弱了，然而他一直能堅強地昂首面對家人。Santhosh是一個很棒的學(xué)生，在體育方面也很擅長，他曾經(jīng)是學(xué)校的籃球冠軍運動員。