"At first it was only a cough. I had it for a long time before I got an X-ray--and then I found out it was TB." A busy young doctoral candidate, he had thought the cough was just a side-effect of working too hard in an air-conditioned office.
「起先只是咳嗽，咳了好久，後來照 X 光才知道是得了肺結核」，這位年輕的博士候選人原以為只是冷氣室裡用功過度的癥候，聽到自己得的竟是肺結核，只覺得不可思議。