1. Eighteen days after the world´s first heart-transplant operation, Washkansky died of pneumonia at his hospital in Cape Town.
    因为在这次世界首例心脏移植手术后的第十八天，沃什坎斯基在开普顿的一家医院里因肺炎而死去。

2. Two British scientists developed a sulfa that could cure pneumonia, a disease that up to that time had caused thousands of deaths yearly.
    英国两位科学家研制了一种可以医治肺炎的磺胺药。在研制出此药之前，每年都有成千上万人死于肺炎。

3. He got pneumonia and had to stay at home.
    他得了肺炎, 不得不待在家里。

4. My father died from "the poor man's friend", pneumonia, one hard winter when his lung illnesses had left him low.
    肺病把我父亲折磨得虚弱不堪, 一个严冬，他死于被叫做"穷人的朋友"的疾病——肺炎。