［2022.5.9］patient ?/?pe??(?)nt/n. 病人，患者<历年真题考查频次：56次>真题复现1：the supreme court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.（2002年text4 p1）真题翻译：最高法院关于医生协助自杀的裁决对医学如何减轻临终病人的痛苦和痛苦具有重要意义。真题复现2：doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.（2002年text4 p3）真题翻译：近年来，医生们一直利用这一原则来为使用大剂量吗啡来控制绝症患者的疼痛辩护，尽管增加剂量最终会导致患者死亡。真题复现3：nancy dubler, director of montefiore medical center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.”（2002年text4 p4）真题翻译：nancy dubler, montehore医疗中心的主任，认为这一

原则将会保护这样一些医生，他们到目前为止还强烈坚持他们不能够给病人足量的镇痛剂来控制他们的疼痛，如果这么做会加速他们的死亡的话。