英语翻译在Songtag的名作《IllnessasMetaphor》中有这样一句，请求翻译Allthislyingtoandbypatientsisameasureofhowmuchharderithasbecomeinadvancedindustrialsocietiestocometotermswithdeath.着重讲ameasureo

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英语翻译
在Songtag的名作《Illness as Metaphor》中有这样一句，请求翻译
All this lying to and by patients is a measure of how much harder it has become in advanced industrial societies to come to terms with death.
着重讲a measure of terms在此句中怎么翻译？

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lying to 对某人撒谎
lying by 默认;默许 意为对病人忽略重要的信息,故意造成病人的错觉
lying to and by patients,大概是病人患了绝症,对其隐瞒真相
All this lying to and by patients...所有对病人的谎言和隐瞒...
All this lying to and by patients is a measure of how much harder it has become in advanced industrial societies to come to terms with death.
所有对病人的谎言和隐瞒衡量出一个高度发达的工业社会多么难以容忍死亡.
a measure of
其中measure作衡量义,是社会难以容忍死亡的一个衡量.
come to terms with固定词组,妥协于;接受