en-us	The young mothers didn’t tell their children they had the coronavirus. 
zh-cn	这两位年轻的母亲没有告诉她们的孩子，自己感染了新型冠状病毒。

en-us	Mama was working hard, they said, to save sick people.  
zh-cn	她们只是说，妈妈在治病救人，工作特别忙。 

en-us	Instead, Deng Danjing and Xia Sisi were fighting for their lives in the same hospitals where they worked, weak from fever and gasping for breath. 
zh-cn	实际上，邓丹菁和夏思思正在她们各自工作过的医院里与死神做斗争，她们发着烧，身体虚弱，呼吸困难。

en-us	Within a matter of weeks, they had gone from healthy medical professionals on the front lines of the epidemic in Wuhan, China, to coronavirus patients in critical condition. 
zh-cn	在短短几周的时间里，她们从工作在中国武汉疫情前线、身体健康的医护人员，变成了新型冠状病毒肺炎的病危患者。 

en-us	The world is still struggling to fully understand the new virus, its symptoms, spread and sources. 
zh-cn	世界仍在努力全面了解这种新病毒及其症状、传播途径和来源。

en-us	For some, it can feel like a common cold. 
zh-cn	对一些患者来说，它的症状与患普通感冒差不多。

en-us	For others, it is a deadly infection that ravages the lungs and pushes the immune system into overdrive, destroying even healthy cells. 
zh-cn	对另一些患者来说，感染将导致死亡，病毒给他们的肺造成严重损害，使免疫系统超负荷运转，甚至健康的细胞也被破坏。

en-us	The difference between life and death can depend on the patient’s health, age and access to care — although not always.  
zh-cn	生与死的区别可能取决于患者的健康状况、年龄和接受治疗的机会，但也并非都如此。 

en-us	The virus has infected more than 132,000 globally. 
zh-cn	全球感染新冠病毒的人数已经超过13.2万。

en-us	The vast majority of cases have been mild, with limited symptoms. 
zh-cn	绝大多数是轻/中症病例，症状有限。

en-us	But the virus’s progression can be quick, at which point the chances of survival plummet. 
zh-cn	但可能出现急转直下的情况，那之后活下来的概率会大幅下降。

en-us	Around 68,000 people have recovered, while nearly 5,000 have died.  
zh-cn	有约6.8万人已经康复，但也有近5000人死亡。 

en-us	The fates of Ms. Deng and Dr. Xia reflect the unpredictable nature of a virus that affects everyone differently, at times defying statistical averages and scientific research.  
zh-cn	邓丹菁和夏思思的命运反映了一种对不同人有不同影响的病毒的不可预测性，有时甚至违背统计平均和科学研究。 

en-us	As the new year opened in China, the women were leading remarkably similar lives. 
zh-cn	在中国新年到来之际，这两名女性还过着非常相似的生活。

en-us	Both were 29 years old. 
zh-cn	两人都是29岁。

en-us	Both were married, each with a young child on whom she doted.  
zh-cn	都已结婚，各有一个宠爱的孩子。 

en-us	Ms. Deng, a nurse, had worked for three years at Wuhan No. 7 Hospital, in the city where she grew up and where the coronavirus pandemic began. 
zh-cn	邓丹菁是一名护士，已在武汉市第七医院工作了三年，她在武汉长大，那里也是新冠病毒疫情暴发的地方。

en-us	Her mother was a nurse there, too, and in their free time they watched movies or shopped together. 
zh-cn	她母亲也曾是当地的一名护士，娘俩闲的时候喜欢一起去看电影或买东西。

en-us	Ms. Deng’s favorite activity was playing with her two pet kittens, Fat Tiger and Little White, the second of which she had rescued just three months before falling sick.  
zh-cn	邓丹菁最喜欢逗自己的两只宠物猫——胖虎和小白，小白是她生病前三个月才捡来的。 

en-us	Dr. Xia, a gastroenterologist, also came from a family of medical professionals. 
zh-cn	夏思思是一名消化内科医生，也来自一个医务工作者家庭。

en-us	As a young child, she had accompanied her mother, a nurse, to work. 
zh-cn	小时候，她会陪着当护士的母亲去工作。

en-us	She joined the Union Jiangbei Hospital of Wuhan in 2015 and was the youngest doctor in her department. 
zh-cn	2015年她到武汉协和江北医院工作时，是科室里最年轻的医生。

en-us	Her colleagues called her “Little Sisi” or “Little Sweetie” because she always had a smile for them. 
zh-cn	同事们叫她“小思思”或“小甜甜”，因为她总是笑盈盈的。

en-us	She loved Sichuan hot pot, a dish famous for its numbingly spicy broth.  
zh-cn	她喜欢吃以麻辣汤底闻名的四川火锅。 

en-us	When a mysterious new virus struck the city, the women began working long hours, treating a seemingly endless flood of patients. 
zh-cn	当一种原因不明的新病毒袭击这座城市后，这两名女性都开始了长时间工作，为似乎无穷无尽的患者治疗。

en-us	They took precautions to protect themselves. 
zh-cn	她们采取了防护措施保护自己。

en-us	But they succumbed to the infection, the highly contagious virus burrowing deep into their lungs, causing fever and pneumonia. 
zh-cn	但最终她们都被感染，这种高度传染性的病毒深入到她们的肺部，引起发烧和肺炎。

en-us	In the hospital, each took a turn for the worse.  
zh-cn	住院后，她们各自的情况都急转直下。 

en-us	One recovered. 
zh-cn	她们中一人康复。

en-us	One did not.  
zh-cn	一人去世。 

en-us	Symptoms: Onset of virus & hospitalization   
zh-cn	症状: 发病和住院 

en-us	The symptoms came on suddenly.  
zh-cn	症状的出现很突然。 

en-us	Dr. Xia had ended her night shift on Jan. 14 when she was called back to attend to a patient — a 76-year-old man with suspected coronavirus. 
zh-cn	1月14日，夏思思刚刚结束了自己的夜班工作，就被医院叫回去救治一名疑似感染了新冠病毒的76岁男子。

en-us	She dropped in frequently to check in on him.  
zh-cn	她多次对他进行检查。 

en-us	Five days later, she started feeling unwell. 
zh-cn	五天后，夏思思开始觉得不舒服。

en-us	Exhausted, she took a two-hour nap at home, then checked her temperature: It was 102 degrees. 
zh-cn	筋疲力尽的她在家里小睡了两小时，醒来后给自己测了体温：38度9。

en-us	Her chest felt tight.  
zh-cn	她感到胸闷。 

en-us	A few weeks later, in early February, Ms. Deng, the nurse, was preparing to eat dinner at the hospital office, when the sight of food left her nauseated. 
zh-cn	几周后的二月初，护士邓丹菁准备在医院办公室里吃晚饭，但一看到食物就让她恶心。

en-us	She brushed the feeling aside, figuring she was worn out by work. 
zh-cn	她没把这种感觉放在心里，觉得那是因为自己工作太累了。

en-us	She had spent the beginning of the outbreak visiting the families of confirmed patients and teaching them to disinfect their homes.  
zh-cn	疫情暴发初期，她一直在走访确诊患者的家庭，教他们的家人如何给家里消毒。 

en-us	After forcing down some food, Ms. Deng went home to shower, and then, feeling groggy, took a nap. 
zh-cn	强咽下一些食物后，邓丹菁回家洗了个澡，然后感觉头昏，就去小睡了一会儿。

en-us	When she woke up, her temperature was 100 degrees.  
zh-cn	醒来后她测了体温：37度8。 

en-us	Fever is the most common symptom of the coronavirus, seen in nearly 90 percent of patients. 
zh-cn	发烧是新冠病毒感染最常见的症状，近90%的患者都会发烧。

en-us	About a fifth of people experience shortness of breath, often including a cough and congestion. 
zh-cn	约五分之一的患者有呼吸困难的症状，通常包括咳嗽和鼻塞。

en-us	Many also feel fatigued.  
zh-cn	许多人也会感到疲劳。 

en-us	Both women rushed to see doctors. 
zh-cn	两人都赶紧去看了医生。

en-us	Chest scans showed damage to their lungs, a tell-tale sign of the coronavirus that is present in at least 85 percent of patients, according to one study.  
zh-cn	胸部扫描显示她们的肺部受了损伤，据一项研究，至少85%的新冠病毒患者有这种表现。 

en-us	In particular, Ms. Deng’s CT scan showed what the doctor called ground-glass opacities on her lower right lung — hazy spots that indicated fluid or inflammation around her airways.  
zh-cn	尤其是邓丹菁，她的CT扫描显示，右肺下半部有医生称之为磨玻璃样混浊的表现，表明她的肺泡周围有液体或炎症。 

en-us	The hospital had no space, so Ms. Deng checked into a hotel to avoid infecting her husband and 5-year-old daughter. 
zh-cn	由于医院没有床位，邓丹菁住进了一家酒店，以免感染丈夫和五岁的女儿。

en-us	She sweated through the night. And at one point, her calf twitched. 
zh-cn	她整夜都在出汗，小腿还抽过一次筋。

en-us	In the morning, she was admitted to the hospital. 
zh-cn	第二天早上，她住进了医院。

en-us	Her throat was swabbed for a genetic test, which confirmed she had the coronavirus.  
zh-cn	她做了咽拭子检测，结果证明她感染了新冠病毒。 

en-us	Her room in a newly opened staff ward was small, with two cots and a number assigned to each one. 
zh-cn	她住在为受感染的医护人员新近设立的病房里，房间很小，里面只有两张标有号码的小床。

en-us	Ms. Deng was in bed 28. 
zh-cn	邓丹菁躺在28号病床上。

en-us	Her roommate was a colleague who had also been diagnosed with the virus.  
zh-cn	她的室友是一位也被确诊的同事。 

en-us	At Jiangbei Hospital, 18 miles away, Dr. Xia was struggling to breathe. 
zh-cn	在大约30公里以外的协和江北医院，夏思思呼吸困难。

en-us	She was placed in an isolation ward, treated by doctors and nurses who wore protective suits and safety goggles. 
zh-cn	她住在一间隔离病房里，穿着防护服、戴着护目镜的医生和护士为她治疗。

en-us	The room was cold.  
zh-cn	房间里很冷。 

en-us	Treatment: Day 1, hospitalization begins   
zh-cn	治疗:  住院治疗开始的第一天 

en-us	When Ms. Deng checked into the hospital, she tried to stay upbeat. 
zh-cn	邓丹菁住院后，努力保持乐观。

en-us	She texted her husband, urging him to wear a mask even at home, and to clean all their bowls and chopsticks with boiling water or throw them out.  
zh-cn	她给丈夫发短信，敦促他即使在家里也要戴口罩，叫他用开水洗他们所有的碗和筷子，不然就全扔掉。 

en-us	Her husband sent a photograph of one of their cats at home. 
zh-cn	丈夫给她发了家里两只猫中一只的照片。

en-us	“Waiting for you to come back,” he said.  
zh-cn	“等你回来撸，”他写道。 

en-us	“I think it’ll take 10 days, half a month,” she replied. 
zh-cn	“估计得十天半个月，”她回答说。

en-us	“Take care of yourself.”  
zh-cn	“你注意自己吧。” 

en-us	There is no known cure for Covid-19, the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus. 
zh-cn	新型冠状病毒肺炎（世界卫生组织将其命名为Covid-19）目前还没有已知的治疗方法。

en-us	So doctors rely on a cocktail of other medicines, mostly antiviral drugs, to alleviate the symptoms.  
zh-cn	所以，医生们靠其他药物，主要是抗病毒药物的混合使用，来缓解症状。 

en-us	Ms. Deng’s doctor prescribed a regimen of arbidol, an antiviral medicine used to treat the flu in Russia and China; Tamiflu, another flu medicine more popular internationally; and Kaletra, an HIV medicine thought to block the replication of the virus. 
zh-cn	邓丹菁的医生给她开的药物包括俄罗斯和中国用于治疗流感的抗病毒药物阿比多尔、国际上其他地区更常见的治疗流感药物达菲，还有一种被认为可以阻止病毒复制的治疗艾滋病的药物克力芝。

en-us	Ms. Deng was taking at least 12 pills a day, as well as traditional Chinese medicine.  
zh-cn	邓丹菁每天至少要服12片药，还有中药。 

en-us	Despite her optimism, she grew weaker. 
zh-cn	尽管她保持乐观，但身体仍越来越虚弱。

en-us	Her mother delivered home-cooked food outside the ward, but she had no appetite. 
zh-cn	她妈妈把家里做的饭送到病房外面，但她没有胃口。

en-us	To feed her, a nurse had to come at 8:30 each morning to hook her up to an intravenous drip with nutrients. 
zh-cn	为了补充营养，一名护士每天早上8点半来给她做静脉输液。

en-us	Another drip pumped antibodies into her bloodstream, and still another antiviral medicine.  
zh-cn	此外，输入她血液中的还有抗体以及抗病毒药物。 

en-us	Dr. Xia, too, was severely ill, but appeared to be slowly fighting the infection. 
zh-cn	虽然夏思思的病情也很重，但她似乎正在慢慢战胜病毒。

en-us	Her fever had subsided after a few days, and she began to breathe more easily after being attached to a ventilator. 
zh-cn	几天后，她的烧退了，上了呼吸机后，她的呼吸也变得容易一些了。 

en-us	Her spirits lifted. 
zh-cn	她有了精神。

en-us	On Jan. 25, she told her colleagues she was recovering.  
zh-cn	1月25日，她告诉同事自己正在康复。 

en-us	“I will return to the team soon,” she texted them on WeChat.  
zh-cn	她在微信群里发短信说：“我会尽快归队的。” 

en-us	“We need you the most,” one of her colleagues responded.  
zh-cn	“我们最需要你，”她的一位同事回复道。 

en-us	In early February, Dr. Xia asked her husband, Wu Shilei, also a doctor, whether he thought she could get off oxygen therapy soon.  
zh-cn	2月初，夏思思问丈夫吴石磊，他是否觉得她能很快停止氧疗。吴石磊也是一名医生。 

en-us	“Take it easy, and don’t be too anxious,” he replied on WeChat. 
zh-cn	“慢慢来，不用太着急，”他用微信回复。

en-us	He told her that the ventilator could possibly be removed by the following week.  
zh-cn	他告诉妻子，可能下周会脱离呼吸机。 

en-us	“I keep on thinking about getting better soon,” Dr. Xia responded.  
zh-cn	“老是想快点好，”夏思思回答道。 

en-us	There was reason to believe she was on the mend. 
zh-cn	有理由相信她正在好转。

en-us	After all, most coronavirus patients recover.  
zh-cn	毕竟，大多数新冠病毒患者都能康复。 

en-us	Later, Dr. Xia tested negative twice for the coronavirus. 
zh-cn	后来，夏思思做了两次新冠病毒检测，结果均呈阴性。

en-us	She told her mother she expected to be discharged on Feb. 8.  
zh-cn	她告诉母亲，预计将于2月8日出院。 

en-us	Decline: Day 4 to 16 after hospitalization   
zh-cn	恶化: 住院后第4～16天 

en-us	By Ms. Deng’s fourth day in the hospital, she could no longer pretend to be cheerful. 
zh-cn	到住院的第四天，邓丹菁再也无法假装乐观了。

en-us	She was vomiting, having diarrhea and relentlessly shivering.  
zh-cn	她开始呕吐、腹泻，身体不停发抖。 

en-us	Her fever jumped to 101.3 degrees. 
zh-cn	她发烧到38度5。

en-us	Early in the morning on Feb. 5, she woke from a fitful sleep to find the medicine had done nothing to lower her temperature. 
zh-cn	2月5日清晨，她从断断续续的睡眠中醒来，发现药物并没能降低体温。

en-us	She cried. 
zh-cn	她哭了。

en-us	She said she was classified as critically ill.  
zh-cn	她说自己已被列为危重病人。 

en-us	The next day, she threw up three times, until she was left spitting white bubbles. 
zh-cn	接下来一天，她吐了三次，直到吐出白沫。

en-us	She felt she was hallucinating. 
zh-cn	她觉得自己出现了幻觉。

en-us	She could not smell or taste, and her heart rate slowed to about 50 beats per minute.  
zh-cn	她失去了嗅觉和味觉，心率减慢到每分钟50次左右。 

en-us	On a phone call, Ms. Deng’s mother tried to reassure her that she was young and otherwise healthy, and that the virus would pass like a bad cold. 
zh-cn	在电话中，邓丹菁的母亲试图安慰她，说她还年轻，没有什么其他的病，病毒会像一次重感冒一样过去。

en-us	But Ms. Deng feared otherwise. 
zh-cn	但邓丹菁仍然恐惧。

en-us	“I felt like I was walking on the edge of death,” she wrote in a social media post from her hospital bed the next day.  
zh-cn	“感觉在死亡的边缘游走，”躺在病床上的她第二天在社交媒体上写道。 

en-us	China defines a critically ill patient as someone with respiratory failure, shock or organ failure. 
zh-cn	中国对危重病人的定义是呼吸衰竭、休克或器官衰竭。

en-us	Around 5 percent of infected patients became critical in China, according to one of the largest studies to date of coronavirus cases. 
zh-cn	根据迄今为止对冠状病毒最大规模的病例研究之一，中国约有5%的感染者属于危重病人。

en-us	Of those, 49 percent died. 
zh-cn	其中，49%的人死亡。

en-us	(Those rates may eventually change once more cases are examined around the world.)  
zh-cn	（如果世界各地检测出更多病例，这些比率最终可能会改变。） 

en-us	While Dr. Xia appeared to be recovering, she was still terrified of dying. 
zh-cn	虽然夏思思看上去正在康复，但她仍然害怕。

en-us	Testing can be faulty, and negative results don’t necessarily mean patients are in the clear.  
zh-cn	检测可能出错，阴性结果并不一定意味着已经没事。 

en-us	She asked her mother for a promise: Could her parents look after her 2-year-old son if she didn’t make it?  
zh-cn	她请母亲给自己一个承诺：如果她没撑过去，父母能照顾她两岁的儿子吗？ 

en-us	Hoping to dispel her anxiety with humor, her mother, Jiang Wenyan, chided her: “He’s your own son. 
zh-cn	为了消除她的焦虑，她母亲姜文艳开玩笑斥责她：“你自己的孩子，

en-us	Don’t you want to raise him yourself?”  
zh-cn	自己不带，还让我们带？ 

en-us	” Dr. Xia also worried about her husband. 
zh-cn	夏思思也很担心丈夫。

en-us	Over video chat, she urged him to put on protective equipment at the hospital where he worked. 
zh-cn	在视频聊天时，她要他在医院上班时穿上防护服。

en-us	“She said she would wait for me to return safely,” he said, “and go to the frontline again with me when she recovered.”  
zh-cn	“她说她会等着我平安归来，”他说，“病好后要和我一起去一线。” 

en-us	Then came the call. 
zh-cn	后来就是那通电话。

en-us	Dr. Xia’s condition had suddenly deteriorated. 
zh-cn	夏思思的情况突然恶化。

en-us	In the early hours of Feb. 7, her husband rushed to the emergency room.  
zh-cn	2月7日凌晨，她的丈夫赶到了急诊室。 

en-us	Her heart had stopped.  
zh-cn	她的心脏停止了跳动。 

en-us	Recovery: Day 17 after hospitalization  In most cases, the body repairs itself. 
zh-cn	大多数情况下，患者身体会自我修复。

en-us	The immune system produces enough antibodies to clear the virus, and the patient recovers.  
zh-cn	免疫系统能产生足够的抗体清除病毒，病人就能康复。 

en-us	By the end of Ms. Deng’s first week in the hospital, her fever had receded. 
zh-cn	住院一周后，邓丹菁退了烧。

en-us	She could eat the food her mother delivered. 
zh-cn	她可以吃母亲送来的食物。

en-us	On Feb. 10, as her appetite returned, she looked up photos of meat skewers online and posted them wishfully to social media.  
zh-cn	2月10日，随着胃口的恢复，她在网上搜索了烤肉串的图片，并满怀希望地发到了社交媒体上。 

en-us	On Feb. 15, her throat swab came back negative for the virus. 
zh-cn	2月15日，她的咽拭子检测结果呈阴性。

en-us	Three days later, she tested negative again. 
zh-cn	三天后，检测结果再次呈阴性。

en-us	She could go home.  
zh-cn	她可以回家了。 

en-us	Ms. Deng met her mother briefly at the hospital’s entrance. 
zh-cn	邓丹菁与母亲在医院门口短短见了一面。

en-us	Then, because Wuhan remained locked down, without taxis or public transportation, she walked home alone.  
zh-cn	然后，因为武汉仍在封城，没有出租车和公共交通，她一个人走回了家。 

en-us	“I felt like a little bird,” she recalled. 
zh-cn	“像个小鸟，”她回忆道。

en-us	“My freedom had been returned to me.”  
zh-cn	“还给了我自由。” 

en-us	She had to isolate at home for 14 days. 
zh-cn	她还需要在家隔离14天。

en-us	Her husband and daughter stayed with her parents.  
zh-cn	丈夫和女儿与她父母住在一起。 

en-us	At home, she threw out her clothing, which she had been wearing for her entire time in the hospital.  
zh-cn	到家后，她把在医院里一直穿的衣服都扔掉了。 

en-us	Since then, she has passed the time by playing with her cats and watching television. 
zh-cn	那之后，她就靠陪猫玩耍和看电视打发时间。

en-us	She jokes that she is getting an early taste of retirement. 
zh-cn	她开玩笑说，自己提前尝到了退休的滋味。

en-us	She does daily deep breathing exercises to strengthen her lungs, and her cough has faded.  
zh-cn	她每天都做深呼吸来增强肺部功能，咳嗽症状也减轻了。 

en-us	She plans to go back to work as soon as the hospital allows it.  
zh-cn	一旦医院允许，她打算马上回去工作。 

en-us	“It was the nation that saved me,” she said. 
zh-cn	“那是国家救了我吧，”她说。

en-us	“And I think I can pay it back to the nation.”  
zh-cn	“然后我觉得我也可以回报一下国家。” 

en-us	Death: Day 35 after hospitalization  
zh-cn	死亡: 住院后第35天 

en-us	It was sometime after 3 a.m. on Feb. 7 when Dr. Xia was rushed to intensive care. 
zh-cn	夏思思被紧急送往重症监护室，是在2月7日凌晨3点过后。

en-us	Doctors first intubated her. 
zh-cn	医生首先给她插管。

en-us	Then, the president of the hospital frantically summoned several experts from around the city, including Dr. Peng Zhiyong, head of the department of critical care at Zhongnan Hospital.  
zh-cn	随后，院长紧张召集了几位市里的专家，包括中南医院重症医学科主任彭志勇。 

en-us	They called every major hospital in Wuhan to borrow an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or Ecmo, machine to do the work of her heart and lungs.  
zh-cn	他们给武汉每家大医院打电话借人工肺(Ecmo)来抢救。 

en-us	Dr. Xia’s heart started beating again. 
zh-cn	夏思思恢复了心跳。

en-us	But the infection in her lungs was too severe, and they failed. 
zh-cn	但她肺里的感染太过严重，已经衰竭。

en-us	Her brain was starved of oxygen, causing irreversible damage. 
zh-cn	她的大脑严重缺氧，造成了不可逆转的损伤。

en-us	Soon, her kidneys shut down and doctors had to put her on round-the-clock dialysis.  
zh-cn	很快，她的肾脏停止了工作，医生不得不让她接受连续不断的透析。 

en-us	“The brain acts as the control center,” Dr. Peng said. 
zh-cn	“脑袋是司令部，”彭志勇说。

en-us	“She couldn’t command her other organs, so those organs would fail. It was only a matter of time.”  
zh-cn	“她没办法指挥其他器官，其他器官都会衰竭的，只是时间问题。” 

en-us	Dr. Xia slipped into a coma. 
zh-cn	夏思思陷入了昏迷。

en-us	She died on Feb. 23. 
zh-cn	她于2月23日去世。 

en-us	Dr. Peng remains baffled about why Dr. Xia died after she had seemed to improve. 
zh-cn	对于夏思思在病情似乎好转后却去世的原因，彭志勇仍然感到困惑。

en-us	Her immune system, like that of many health workers, may have been compromised by constant exposure to sickness. 
zh-cn	就像很多医务人员一样，她的免疫系统可能因为持续暴露而受到损害。

en-us	Perhaps she suffered from what experts call a “cytokine storm,” in which the immune system’s reaction to a new virus engulfs the lungs with white blood cells and fluid. 
zh-cn	或许她遭遇了专家们所说的“细胞因子风暴”，免疫系统对一种新病毒的反应会导致肺部被白细胞和积液吞没。

en-us	Perhaps she died because her organs were starved of oxygen.  
zh-cn	或许她是死于器官缺氧。 

en-us	Back at Dr. Xia’s home, her son, Jiabao — which means priceless treasure — still thinks his mother is working. 
zh-cn	在夏思思的家里，儿子家宝以为妈妈还在工作。

en-us	When the phone rings, he tries to grab it from his grandmother’s hands, shouting: “Mama, mama.” 
zh-cn	电话铃一响，他就想从外婆手里把电话抢走，嘴里喊着：“妈妈，妈妈。” 

en-us	Her husband, Dr. Wu, doesn’t know what to tell Jiabao. 
zh-cn	她的丈夫吴石磊不知道怎么跟家宝说。

en-us	He hasn’t come to terms with her death himself. 
zh-cn	他自己都还没接受她的离世。

en-us	They had met in medical school and were each other’s first loves. 
zh-cn	他们在医学院认识，是彼此的初恋。

en-us	They had planned to grow old together.  
zh-cn	他们原本约定要白头偕老。 

en-us	“I loved her very much,” he said. 
zh-cn	“我很爱她，”他说。

en-us	“She’s gone now. I don’t know what to do in the future, I can only hold on.” 
zh-cn	“她现在没了，我不知道以后的日子该咋办，只能硬挺着。”