By Spring Break he'd gotten sufficiently sick that

但到了春假期间他就病得很重了
his doctor basically said, "You can't continue in school anymore.

医生说他不能再在校读书了
You've got to go home."

他必须回家静养
Basically, "You've got to go home to die."

这基本上是说他要回家去死
And indeed,

的确
he got progressively and then rapidly deteriorated at that point.

他当时病情日益恶化后来又急转直下
The faculty members who were teaching his classes that semester

所有那学期教过他课的老师
then all faced the question posed to them by the administration,

都面临着一个行政难题
based on the work he's done so far this semester,

基于他已学习了大半个学期这一情况
has he--what kind of grade are you prepared to give him?

将给他怎样的一个成绩呢
Because, depending on which of his classes he passed

因为根据他的课程通过情况来看
and which of his classes he failed, the question was going to be,

这个问题也就演变为