1. When my HIV test results returned positive, I was shocked and confused. Was I dying? Was my shot at the '88 Olympics vaporized?
    当我知道自己的艾滋病检验结果是阳性时，我感到震惊和困惑。我会死去吗？我想在88年奥运会上再铸辉煌的心愿会化为泡影吗？

2. What should I do? During this very difficult time, I couldn't tell anyone for fear I wouldn't be able to compete in the Olympics if people learned I was HIV-positive.
    我该怎么办？然而在这艰难的时刻，我却不能把这些告诉任何人，因为一旦人们知道我是艾滋病毒阳性，我便不能参加奥运会比赛了。

3. None knew how hard it had been, except Ron and the friends I'd told I was HIV-positive.
    除了知道我是艾滋病毒阳性的罗恩和几个朋友，没有人知道这是多么的不容易。

4. Another 185,000 of the one million infected with the HIV virus are also expected to die.
    此外，100万感染艾滋病毒的人当中有18.5万人也将不久于人世。

5. Also, at least five million persons likely have the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (艾滋病病毒), which causes AIDS.
    此外，至少有500万人可能携带导致艾滋病发作的艾滋病病毒。

6. AIDS spreads in three basic ways: first, through sexual intercourse(性交); second, through contact with diseased blood; and third from an HIV mother to her baby.
    艾滋病的传播有三种基本方式：第一，通过性交；第二，通过接触艾滋病患者的血液；第三，经由携带艾滋病毒的母亲传给婴儿。

7. Surviving cancer is a new trend. HIV/AIDS, however, is spreading quickly all over the world.
    癌症病人的生存率得到提高是一个新趋势。然而，艾滋病却正在全世界迅速蔓延。

8. I might have endangered other divers' lives if I had spilled blood in the pool. For what I knew — that few others knew — was that I was HIV-positive.
    要是我的血溅到了游泳池里，就会危及其他跳水选手的生命。因为我知道--而其他很少有人知道--我是阳性艾滋病毒携带者。

9. Four years later, while preparing for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, I learned my partner had AIDS. I had to accept I might be HIV-positive or have AIDS, too.
    四年之后，当我为1988年汉城奥运会准备时，了解到我的伴侣得了艾滋病。我可能也是艾滋病毒阳性或染上了艾滋病,我得接受这一现实。