2015年河海大学研究生英语一Unit7TheHealingpowerofBelief.docVIP

Unit 7 The?Healing?power?of?Belief For?the?past?two?years,I?have?been?studying?cancer?survivors?at?UGLA,trying?to?find?out?why?it?is?that?some?people?respond?much?better?to?their?treatment?than?do?others.At?first?I?though?that?some?patients?did?well?because?their?illnesses?were?not?as?severe?as?the?illnesses?of?others. On?closer?scrutiny,however,I?discovered?that?severity?of? the?illness?was?only?one?of?a?number?of?factors?that?accounted?for?the?difference?between?those?who?get?well?and?those?who?don’t?.The?patients?i?am?talking?about?here?received?upon?diagnosis?whatever?therapy?medication,radiation,surgery-their?individual?cases?demanded.Yet?the?response?to?such?treatments?was?hardly?uniform.Some?patients?fared?much?better?in?their?therapies?than?others.? 在过去的两年里，我一直在UGLA研究癌症幸存者，试图发现为什么对有些人治疗产生的效果会比其他人好。开始我认为一些病人治疗效果好是因为他们的疾病没有别人。但是经过进一步的仔细，我所说的这些病人包括药物治疗，放射疗法，外科治疗。但是这些治疗的反映几乎不一致。一些病人在治疗过程中进展病人要得多。? What?was?it,then,that?was?different?Was?there?any?one?thing?that?all?survivors?had?in?common?Yes.I?have?found?that?the?major?characteristics?of?these?survivors?were?very?similar.Among?the?similarities?are: ?They?all?had?a?strong?will?to?live? They?were?not?panicky?about?their?illness? They?had?confidence?in?their?ability?to?persevere? Despite?all?the?forecasts?to?the?contrary,they?believed?they?could?make?it?They?were?capable?of?joyous?response? They?were?convinced?that?their?treatment?would?work.? 那么到底是什么不同呢？有没哪一点是所有幸存者的共有呢？是的，我发现这些幸存者的主要特征非常相似? 他们都有着非常强的求生欲望；?他们对自己的疾病感到恐慌；?他们有信心坚持；? ，他们都相信他们能成功；?他们能够很欢乐地应对治疗；?他们相信他们的治疗会起作用。? One?woman?with?whom?I?worked?closely?is?perhaps?symbolic?of?the?entire?group.Let’s?call?her?Annie.Her?illness?was?diagnosed?as?cancer?of?the?liver.An?exploratory?operation?convinced?the?surgeons?that?the?disease?was?too?far?along?to?be?treated?by?any?known?means. But?Annie,far?from?being?discouraged?or?depressed?by?this?verdict, was?absolutely?determined?to?overcome?her?illness.She?decided?to?fight?with?all?of?her?powers?of?mind?and?body.Her