He contracted tubercular meningitis while in prison.
在监狱期间,他身患结核性脑膜炎。
Buddy Holly (killed in a plane crash), Amedeo Modigliani (dead of tubercular meningitis at 35), Wilfred Owen (slain in action a week before the armistice in 1918): such premature and cruel exits are tragic.
巴迪·霍利(在一次飞机失事中丧生)、阿梅迪奥·莫迪利亚尼(35岁时死于结节性脑膜炎)、威尔弗雷德·欧文(1918年停战前一周在行动中被杀):这种过早且残酷的离世是一种悲剧。
Nicole glanced again at the woman across the deck--she was fragile, tubercular--it was incredible that such narrow shoulders, such puny arms could bear aloft the pennon of decadence, last ensign of the fading empire.
妮可又瞥了一眼甲板对面的女人——她很脆弱,患有结核病——令人难以置信的是,如此狭窄的肩膀,如此纤弱的手臂能够高举颓废的三角旗,衰落帝国的后一位少尉。