二、课文精解

Text I

1．I was just live life up. （para.1）：全句释义：I was enjoying life to my heart’s content. 我没有什么担心的事，只是享受着生活。注意live up和live up to的区别：前者指“快乐地过日子”，后者指“实行，履行；不辜负，达到标准”：One ought to live up to what he knows to be right.自己认为是对的，就要去履行它。He has lived up to the hopes of his father.他没有辜负父亲的期望。

2．I confronted him as to why we were not friends any more. （para.2） 全句释义：I faced him bravely, challenging him why we were not friends any more. 我就过去当面问他为什么不再当我是朋友了。其中confront 为动词，意为“使面对，面对面”，例如：A soldier has to confront danger.士兵必须面对危险。短语as to意为“关于，有关”：I has no doubts as to your ability.我对你的能力没有怀疑。

3．When things had gone wrong before this, I could always rely on my parents to make things better. There was nothing that they could do this time. I had to handle it all on my own. （para.3）：全句释义：I had to deal with it all alone, since my parents could do nothing about it this time. 在此之前，当事情出了差错时，我总能依靠父母把事情处理好。但这次他们也无能为力。我不得不靠自己来处理这一切。其中短语on one’s own意为“单独地，独自地”，例如：I can deal with this matter on my own.我自己能处理这件事。

4．There was no use in hiding it; sooner or later people would find out.句中there is no use （in） doing sth或者it is no use in doing sth意为“做…很无用；做…没有意义”，例如：There is no use talking to him while he is in that low frame of mind.他情绪那么低落，同他谈话是没有用的。短语sooner or later意为“迟早”，例如：A dishonest person is bound to meet setbacks sooner or later.不老实的人是迟早会遇到挫折的。

5．People looked at him as if he had a plague, and our friends from school wanted nothing to do with him. （para.4）：全句释义：People looked at him as if he was a carrier of a plague, and our friends from school did not want to have any connection with him.人们看见他都避开他，就像他得了瘟疫一样，我们学校的朋友都不想和他有任何联系。其中have nothing to do with意为“与…没有关系”，例如：I have nothing to do with your affections, your delusions.我才不管你的自作多情和想入非非呢。

6．David found out that he had full blown AIDS. （para.5）：全句释义：David found that he suffered terribly from AIDS, which had spread all over his body and which tormented him very severely. 戴维发现他已经到了艾滋病晚期。其中full blown AIDS指“完全型艾滋病”

7．Everyone said that I must keep a positive attitude for his sake, because attitude means everything. （para.5）：for one’s sake相当于for the sake of ,二者都表示“看在…的份上，为了…的利益，为了…的原因”，例如：For the sake of convenience, we shall work with space.为了方便起见，我们将利用空间。

8．She thought that the trip would do me good, she said that I was not the one that was dying. （para.6）：全句释义：She believed that the trip would benefit my health. 她认为这次旅行对我有好处。她说要死的那个人又不是我。其中do sb good意为“对某人有益”，例如：I think a change might do you good.我想换一换环境可能会对你有好处。Have a good long cry, it will do you good.痛痛快快地哭一场吧，哭出来就好受多了。

9．I now educate people about AIDS, which to me means keeping David’s memory alive. （para.8）：keep sth alive意为“使…活着，使继续存在”，例如：During war time, mothers are keep alive the nurturing role amid the loss, grief and fear.战争期间，面对亲人的丧失，面对悲伤和恐惧，母亲们竭力承担着他们看护者的角色。

Text II

1．Centers for Disease Control （para.2）：疾病控制与预防中心，美国公共卫生署的下属机构。

2．hemophilia （para.3）：血友病。血友病的原意是“嗜血的病”，就是说这种病人由于经常严重出血，要靠紧急输血以挽救生命，成了“以血为友”的疾病。

3．HTLV: acronym for human T-cell lymphotropic virus （para.5）：人类嗜T细胞病毒（HTLV），是20世纪70年代后期发现的第一个人类逆转录病毒，有Ⅰ型（HTLV-Ⅰ）和Ⅱ型（HTLV-Ⅱ）之分，分别是引起T细胞白血病和毛细胞白血病的病原体。

4．macrophages （para.6）：巨噬细胞：单核吞噬细胞系统中高度分化、成熟的细胞类型。

5．thrush （para.7）：鹅口疮：以小儿口腔黏膜、舌头上布生白屑状物，状如鹅口为主要表现的疾病。

6．Kaposi （para.8）：肉瘤：以皮下肉中生肿块，大如桃、拳，按之稍软，皮色不变，无痛为主要表现的瘤病。

7．abstinence （para.11）: the state of refraining away from food, alcohol, etc., but in this text esp. from sex.节制，禁欲：The best way to avoid pregnancy was total abstinence form sex.最好的避孕方法就是彻底戒除性生活。

8．monogamous （para.11）: in the practice or state of being married to one person at a time一夫一妻制：For plenty of men, such opportunities never arose, while others stayed monogamous from choice.大多数男人从未遇到过这样的机会，而另外一些资源选择用情专一。