【读新闻学英语】莫名咳嗽检查发现肺里有“肿块”，病因还要从40年前说起……

For more than a year,Paul Baxter,50, had felt ill, inexplicably coughing up phlegm.The British postal worker,a former smoker, had already been treated for pneumonia, but now doctors suspected it might be much worse - an X-ray had revealed a mysterious mass in one of his lungs, and it was suspected to be a possible tumour.

Paul Baxter今年50岁，一年多来，他感觉自己生病了，总是莫名地咳出痰。这个英国的邮政工作者，以前抽过烟，已经接受了肺炎治疗，但是现在医生怀疑情况可能更糟糕——通过X射线检查，发现他的肺里面有一个神秘的块状物体，医生怀疑那个可能是肿瘤。

inexplicably：莫名其妙地

phlegm：痰

pneumonia：肺炎

revealed：显露

It was not a tumour.It was, in fact, a tiny toy traffic cone from a Playmobil set that Baxter had apparently aspirated more than four decades earlier.

那不是肿瘤，实际上，那是一个来自Playmobil玩具组合中的一个小型玩具交通锥形桶，很显然在40多年前，Baxter就无意中吸入了这个小玩意。

cone：锥形桶

aspirated：误吸

decade：十年

"The diagnosis of TFB [tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration] in children appears to be delayed for more than 1 week in a small proportion of children. However, a case in which the onset of symptoms occurs so long after initial aspiration is unheard of in the literature.”

“对于儿童TFB症状（气管支气管吸入异物）的诊断延误1周左右的情况，在一小部分儿童身上出现过。但是，像Baxter这样在初次吸入后，经过如此长的时间才发现的情况，从未有过记录。”

diagnosis：诊断

delayed：延迟

proportion：份额

initial：初次

"This may be because aspiration occurred at such a young age that the patient's airway was able to remodel and adapt to the presence of this foreign body.”

这种情况的发生，可能是因为在年纪很小的时候，患者的气管能够改变并自适应这种异物的存在。

occurred：发生

remodel：改变

adapt to：适应

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