"I ended up bankrupted by cancer and by my husband's serious illness,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

She lived in New York for a short time, but she was afflicted with lupus, a very serious illness, and she died at the age of 39 in 1964.

她在纽约度过一段短暂的时光，但她饱受狼疮，一种严重疾病的折磨，最终逝世于1964年。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary splitting up and my feeling that everything was dead.

我刚熬过一场重大疾病，具体就不说了,只是这与我和妻子不幸的分离有些关系,我感觉万物都没有了生机。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"because the virus can spread rapidly, but what we're seeing so far is a pretty stable position as far as the virus is concerned, it's producing relatively mild illness in most people, but in a small proportion it's causing serious problems and we have in place the plans in our health care system to deal with those problems,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.31