Nevertheless, despite all the doctors and quack cures, Chi-keng, still in his adolescence, continued to grow up in all ways but the physical: He became more reed-like by the day, and deteriorated year in and year out.
然而，看遍名醫、試盡偏方，正值發育期的李繼庚，依然是什麼都長，就是不長肉，一天天消瘦、一年年惡化。