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American Senator John McCain has chosen to discontinue his medical treatment for brain cancer.
The family of the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nominee and former prisoner of war announced the decision Friday. They said with his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment.
His wife Cindy posted a message on Twitter: I love my husband with all of my heart. God bless everyone who has cared for my husband along this journey.

In July 2017, doctors found the cancerous growth and operated on McCain. Two weeks later, McCain returned to the Senate floor. He cast the deciding vote against a Republican measure to end the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare.
Republican President Donald Trump criticized that decision. He and McCain have had long-standing disagreements. During his campaign, Trump also questioned the senator's public image as a war hero, saying of McCain's past, "I like people who weren't captured."
McCain flew for the navy. His plane was shot down during the war in Vietnam. He was imprisoned, kept in isolation, and tortured by the North Vietnamese. He refused to give the North Vietnamese any military information. McCain was finally released after the cease-fire along with other American prisoners of war on March 14, 1973.
McCain retired from the Navy. He has served in Congress representing Arizona since 1982. He has been absent because of his medical condition since December.
The 81-year-old McCain has seven children, four with his wife Cindy Hensley, and three from his first marriage to Carol Shepp.
After the announcement Friday, former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman said, becoming John McCain's friend has been one of the great blessings of my life. Today I am praying for him and his family.
I'm Bryan Lynn.

重点解析

1. choose to do sth 选择做某事

You have this power inside you. We all do. It is all about how we choose to use it.
你内心也有这种力量，我们都有Pmczj9kefY92yQDF。关键是我们选择怎样运用它&tqo!Ojw.8j^。

2. care for 关心，照顾

He choose the woman to cook and care for him at regular intervals.
他每隔一定时间会选择一个女人来为他做饭并照顾他GJ@J.W;Vul_x0u%i。

3. because of 因为

His business went under because of competition from the large corporations.
由于大公司的竞争，他的生意陷入了困境-,=fncHTo=1W[。

4.shoot down 击落

Any one of the above responses will let the person know you can easily shoot down anything they could possibly ask.
以上任何一个答案将让那人知道，你能轻易地否决任何他们可能提出的问题vXT8,P|,7nJr0J#-~Yn。

5.presential nominee 总统候选人

“They are just flailing around,” McCain, his party’s 2008 presidential nominee, said on the “Fox News Sunday” program.
“他们只是在摆姿态，”麦凯恩，共和党的2008年总统候选人，在“福克斯周日新闻”节目上说道~ZE5)~;L,M。

参考译文

美国参议员约翰 麦凯恩已选择停止其脑癌治疗kRTsB7#cD&B+4。
麦凯恩是共和党2008年的总统提名人，也曾是前战犯cu#Fnb+6,q5_!!。他的家人于周五宣布了这项决定hazjN(o;*P9tOiI~h3=7。他的家人表示，麦凯恩像平时一样了，靠着刚强的意志，做出了停止治疗的决定xunbk;)!IG|Fd5^IW。
麦凯恩的妻子辛迪在推特上发文称：我全心全意地爱着我的丈夫&)Wva6))xiXe7PE。愿上帝保佑一路走来关心我丈夫的每个人-^qx&S@oCf-。
2017年7月，医生发现麦凯恩癌细胞扩散，并为他进行了手术TZHrAj.s,)JQ2EeE@。两周后，麦凯恩就重返参议院的工作#^&Cst,!aERb8S8MK。他为共和党的一项举措投出了决定性的一票，使奥巴马曾推崇的平价医疗法案得以延续sL*0~!t)@SX8&。
共和党总统特朗普谴责了麦凯恩的决定Ge9;_u|s8~@。特朗普和麦凯恩长期不和T72z-jj45P;Hm*8]c;。在特朗普竞选期间，他曾质疑麦凯恩在公众心中所谓战争英雄的形象，特朗普以麦凯恩的过去为证，“我还是喜欢没进过监狱的人tYe2~.Z0R03q;c@。”
麦凯恩曾是一名海军TTp;q#L~_f。他驾驶的飞机在越南战争期间被击落z[L[W(A01@,。他被捕入狱，与世隔绝，并受到北越的虐待y.JH&juDJZZ+JQSz。他拒绝向北越提供军事信息Y]QF(Nv96HGSHTWGWQY9。麦凯恩最后得到释放，在停火后与其他被囚禁的美国士兵一起出狱，当时是1973年3月14日PKta.!cZSB;)9BaM。
后来，麦凯恩从海军退役%_z%jX1l^VdJ。从1982年开始，麦凯恩担任亚利桑那州的国会议员2ALo8oe&8-eV,ex。自12月以来，他就因病情问题而缺席国会会议nsWm5D.v8!。
今年81岁的他有7个子女，4个是跟现任妻子辛迪(Cindy Hensley)所生，另外3个是一婚时与卡罗尔(Carol Shepp)所生r-YrYQ|pS;#=t。
在周五宣布决定后，康涅狄格州前议员约瑟夫 李伯曼(Sen. Joseph Lieberman)表示，跟麦凯恩成为朋友是今生的一件幸事.3,ZKs4a;;S9~Ut^]|D。今天，我为他和他的家人祈祷);-gVpA+f][5nz_X.r。
布莱恩 林恩(Bryan Lynn)为您播报=#aSl*z*b1EiL2q。

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