He won't limply surrender like some consumptive Romantic.

他才不会像那些得了肺痨的浪漫主义者那样轻易的向死亡投降。

Henry Brandling, a sorrowful, rich Englishman, travels to Germany to commission a “mechanical marvel” so wondrous it will raise his consumptive son from his sickbed.

富伤的英国男亨利·布兰德（Henry Brandling）德国，希望能找人制造出一个美妙的“机械奇迹”，好让他身患肺痨的儿能从中汲取战胜病魔的希望。

" She is consumptive, and the sort of life she leads isn't exactly the thing to cure her. She has taken to her bed; she is dying" .

" 本她就有肺病，而过那种生活又不利于调养，结果现在卧床不起，人快死了。"