cancer简单

Five years ago, at summer’s end, Andrew Fusek Peters was diagnosed with bowel cancer. “I was waiting for surgery, feeling really ill, sitting in my garden. It was amazing weather and there were painted lady butterflies everywhere,” he says. “They were a symbol of fragile life, of hope and defiance, and something appealed to my soul.”

五年前的夏末，安德鲁·富塞克·彼得斯被诊断出患有肠癌。“我在等待手术，感觉非常难受，坐在我的花园里。天气好极了，到处都是小红蛱蝶，”他说，“它们象征着脆弱的生命，象征着希望与不屈，有某种东西打动了我的灵魂。”

A children’s author and poet who had become a keen amateur photographer, Peters watched the butterflies and idly wondered if he could capture them in flight. It swiftly became an obsession as he recovered from a successful operation to remove the cancer. In recent summers, he has travelled the length and breadth of Britain to photograph all 58 native species of butterfly. Now the fruits of those summers have been published in a beautiful new book.

彼得斯是一位儿童作家和诗人，后来成了一名热心的业余摄影师。他看着那些蝴蝶，随意地想自己能否拍下它们飞行的样子。在成功切除癌症的手术后康复期间，这个念头很快变成了一种痴迷。最近几个夏天，他走遍英国各地，拍摄了全部58种本土蝴蝶。如今，这几个夏天的成果已汇编成一本精美的新书出版。

They’ve implored citizens to help with bug counting and categorising cancer cells, and even identifying distant galaxies.

他们恳请公民帮忙统计昆虫数量、对癌细胞进行分类，甚至识别遥远的星系。

From life expectancy to cancer and infant mortality rates, we are lagging behind many of our peers.

从预期寿命到癌症和婴儿死亡率，我们都落后于许多同类国家。

[While] studies have shown that acrylamide can cause neurological damage in mice, there is no [conclusive] evidence that it causes cancer in humans.

虽然研究表明丙烯酰胺会对小鼠造成神经损伤，但并没有确凿证据表明它会导致人类患癌。

Scientists say the compound is [likely] to cause cancer but have no hard scientific proof.

科学家说这种化合物很可能致癌，但并没有确凿的科学证据。