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[00:01.81]Laughing Matter 一笑置之

[00:05.07]Cancer is no laughing matter,

[00:08.57]but a woman suffering through chemotherapy is rethinking that.

[00:11.75]Bonnie Southcott, of Ferndale, Washington,

[00:14.81]is teaching people that even though cancer isn’t fun,

[00:17.55]it can be funny.

[00:19.28]She was seven months pregnant with her second child Nate

[00:22.25]when doctors found the tumor¹.

[00:23.90]“In a flash moment,

[00:25.09]I went from being a happy expectant mother

[00:27.61]to being someone afraid for her life,” she told reporters.

[00:30.77]Minutes after doctors delivered Nate by emergency C-section,

[00:34.93]Southcott went into surgery.

[00:37.24]The diagnosis² was ovarian cancer.

[00:39.74]Suddenly tears and chemotherapy overtook her life.

[00:43.36]But the lowest moment came after she lost all her hair and a free wig³ arrived.

[00:48.29]he tried it on as her older son Kyler watched.

[00:52.44]“I thought I can cry about this bad wig and he’ll remember it,

[00:56.26]or I can laugh about it and he will remember that,” Southcott said.

[01:00.30]That was when she started laughing a lot, and found it was the perfect medicine.

[01:05.55]“I spent a lot time looking for anything humor based for cancer patients,” she said.

[01:10.58]“And I’ll tell you what: There isn’t much out there.”

[01:13.77]Using herself as a bald model,

[01:15.95]Bonnie started her own line of greeting cards and a calendar.

[01:19.13]Each pose pokes⁴ fun at the tribulations⁵ of chemo.

[01:22.62]She spread laugh in her own way.

[01:24.93]“We desperately⁶ need to laugh,” she said.

[01:27.54]“It’s vital to our joy.”

[01:28.97]Even though Southcott’s ovarian cancer is in remission,

[01:32.36]the diagnosis is no laughing matter

[01:34.77]—a 25-percent chance she will live for another two-years.

[01:38.48]She plans to appreciate every moment of motherhood.

[01:41.98]And she plans to laugh.

1 tumor   

n.（肿）瘤，肿块(英)tumour

参考例句：

• He was died of a malignant tumor.他死于恶性肿瘤。
• The surgeons irradiated the tumor.外科医生用X射线照射那个肿瘤。

2 diagnosis   

n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断

参考例句：

• His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。

3 wig   

n.假发

参考例句：

• The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
• He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。

4 pokes   

v.伸出( poke的第三人称单数 )；戳出；拨弄；与（某人）性交

参考例句：

• He pokes his nose into everything. 他这人好管闲事。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Only the tip of an iceberg pokes up above water. 只有冰山的尖端突出于水面。 来自辞典例句

5 tribulations   

n.苦难( tribulation的名词复数 )；艰难；苦难的缘由；痛苦

参考例句：

• the tribulations of modern life 现代生活的苦恼
• The film is about the trials and tribulations of adolescence. 这部电影讲述了青春期的麻烦和苦恼。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 desperately   

adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地

参考例句：

• He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
• He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。