They may prescribe innumerable placebos, sound more encouraging than the facts warrant, and distort grave news, especially to the incurably ill and the dying.

• 他们会开出无数的安慰剂，说的话听起来比担保的实情更令人鼓舞，并歪曲一些重大的消息，尤其是对那些患有不治之症和要死的病人。