1. Thanks to the team, the hospital stay of an open-heart surgery patient dropped from an average of nine days to seven days.
    由于该小组的工作，开胸手术病人的平均住院时间从9天减到7天。

2. Thus, a broken alarm clock in the movie The Pawnbroker became a "sick" patient undergoing surgery; boots were boiled in his film The Gold Rush and their soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts of fish (the nails being removed like
    因此，在《当铺老板》中，一个坏闹钟变成了正在接受手术的"病人"；在《淘金记》中，靴子被煮熟，靴底蘸着盐和胡椒被吃掉，就像上好的鱼片（鞋钉就像鱼骨那样被剔除）。

3. That means, for example, that a doctor in Europe who is particularly learned will be able to treat patients in America after viewing their records via computer, deciding the correct dose of medicine to give the patient, or perhaps even remotely contr
    那就是说，举个例子，欧洲的一位医道高明的医生通过电脑看了病历就能给美洲的病人治病，决定病人用药的剂量，甚至还可以遥控一个操手术刀的机器人施行手术。

4. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you.
    解放黑奴这场手术很成功，病人的情况也不错，谢谢。

5. No one wanted to take the responsibility for permitting an operation, yet no one would give permission to stop feeding the patient entirely.
    没有人愿意承担允许施行手术的责任，然而也没有人愿意允许完全停止给病人进食。

6. And find some grace and pleasure in our condition, not like a self-centered British poet but like a patient princess sealed up in a tower, waiting for the happy ending to our fairy tale.
    要在我们自身的条件下发现一些优雅和乐趣，不要做一个以自我为中心的英国诗人，而要像一个被关在塔楼里的公主，耐心地等待着我们的童话故事进入快乐的结局。

7. Another patient might equally well complain that her neighbours were combining to slander her and persecute her,
    另有一位病人可能同样有理由抱怨说，她的邻居们正在联合起来对她进行诽谤和迫害，

8. ´No,´ the patient answered, ´I am Mr. John Gilbert.´
    "不是，"病人回答说，"我就是约翰.吉尔伯特先生。"

9. Another question asked was, was it all worth the trouble and money that went into it if at the end of the day the patient died?
    另一点疑问是，假如病人手术当天就命归黄泉，那么是否还值得花费人力财力进行这种手术呢？

10. As Mr. Ross said at the time: "If the patient has no other future short of this transplant, we think we are morally justified, in the present state of our knowledge, in doing it."
    正如罗斯先生当时所说：“如果除了做移植手术之外，病人别无出路，那么我们认为，在现有的医学条件下，施行这种手术在道义上是无可非议的。”