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The geriatrician will intervene late in the day, 老年医学医生会在一个人老化过程的后段， when pathology is becoming evident, 病理越来越明显的时候， and the geriatrician will try and hold back the sands of time, 做治疗来尽量阻止老化时间 and stop the accumulation of side effects 和副作用积累 from causing the pathology quite so soon. 并且阻止那么快就造成不可避免地死亡。 Of cours...
The therapies will be improving faster than 治疗法比起治疗法中存在的缺陷 the remaining imperfections in the therapies are catching up with us. 改进得更快。 This is a very important point for me to get across. 这是我想说的非常重要的一点。 Because, you know, most people, when they hear 因为，很多人一听到 that I predict that a lot of people alive today are going to live to 1,00...
Study after study 一个又一个的研究 is coming to the same conclusion. 证实了相同的结论 The CDC recently conducted a survey 疾病防治中心(CDC)最近进行了一次调查 where they asked respondents simply to tell them 他们简单地要求受试者来报告 whether they experienced significant psychological distress 在过去的一周里自己是否经历了 in the previous week. 重大的心理困扰 And fewer older p...
People are living longer 人们现在越活越久 and societies are getting grayer. 社会也逐渐变得老龄化 You hear about it all the time. 你可能总是听到别人这么说 You read about it in your newspapers. 你也从报纸上如是读到 You hear about it on your television sets. 从电视上看到 Sometimes I'm concerned 有时候我很担心 that we hear about it so much 我们听过长寿太多次 that we've c...
And it seems to me that the first question 我的看法是， is entirely a biology question, 第一个问题完全是生物学的问题， and it's extremely hard to answer. 这是非常难回答。 One has to be very speculative, 一个人必须非常投机， and many of my colleagues would say that we should not do this speculation, 和我的许多同事会说，我们不应该做这种推测， that we should simply keep our...
Thank you, Cynthia. 谢谢，辛西娅 Let me get this straight. 让我直说 Although you're looking for a drug 尽管你在找寻一种药 that can solve aging 它能解决 in old men like me, 像我一样老人的衰老问题 what you could do now pretty well in the lab, 几乎在实验室你能做什么 if you were allowed ethically, 如果你在道德上被准许 is start a human life from scratch 从人类生命开始 with al...
You know, if you haven't got an argument that's that strong, 你知道，如果你还没有比这一个说法更强的论点， then just don't waste my time, is what I say. 那么就不要浪费我的时间。这是我的看法。 Now, there is one argument 话虽如此，有一种观点有些人认为， that some people do think really is that strong, and here it is. 确实是很强，我们就在这儿讨论一下。 People worry a...
It's got to be philanthropic, because profits distract biotech, 这些研究的钱的来源最好是慈善，因为利润会分散生物技术研究公司的注意力， but it's basically got a 90 percent chance, I think, of succeeding in this. 但我认为它基本上有着百分之九十的机会成功。 And I think we know how to do it. And I'll stop there. 因为我们已经知道应该怎么做。我就说到这里。 Thank you. 谢...
Some abilities, of course, decrease with age. 当然，一些能力会随着年龄的增长而变差。 Those include abilities at tasks 这些包括完成 requiring physical strength and stamina, 需要体力和耐力， ambition, and the power of novel reasoning 野心及在特定情况下有创意的推理力 in a circumscribed situation, 的这类任务的能力， such as figuring out the structure of DNA, 如想出DNA的结构， be...
This list is just for illustration; it is incomplete. 这个列表仅仅是一个例子，它是不完整的。 The list on the right is also incomplete. 右边的列表也一样不完整。 It's a list of types of pathology that are age-related, 它们只是一种与年龄 and it's just an incomplete list. 有关的病的列表。 But I would like to claim to you that this list in the middle is actually complete ...
Perhaps it's only when we fully accept that we will die that we can fully accept how alive we are right now.Death brings perspective, then. It brings us back to life and it asks of me, how, now, will I live? A friend works at a hospice, and recently she cared for a man who just had days left. They talked about his childhood, she tells me, and then she asked him what make...
In a more agnostic culture than the one I grew up with it's a challenge to know how to talk meaningfully about something so enormous when we don't really understand it. There is scepticism about the afterlife these days. But however sceptical people may be about heaven and hell, it always feels brutal to speak of the total extinction of personality, when the personal...
Two US companies announced earlier this week that they have shelved the testing of a particular drug. It had been the best hope for a treatment for Alzheimer's. Many years work and more than a billion pounds of investment have come to naught, to the disappointment of the researchers involved and the doubtless greater disappointment of those in the very early stages of de...
Death 死亡 Death is a door opening to a new life. 死亡开启了新生的门。 I live and die everyday. 每天都是方生方死，方死方生。 We all come in the middle of the movie and we all leave in the middle of the movie. 每个人都在电影演到中途的时候出场，也在电影演到中途的时候退场. There is no right time or wrong time, just our time. 时间本身并无对错之分。 Death is not a failure 死亡不...
When I die I want your hands on my eyes — Neruda 我死之时，我想要你的手放我眼睛上–聂鲁达 When I die I want your hands on my eyes 我死之时，我想要你的手放我眼睛之上 I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands 我要我爱的你那双手里的光芒和麦芒 To pass over me their freshness one last time 最后一次将生机传遍我濒死的肉身 To feel the softness that changed my life ...
So this neglected space became a constructive one, and people's hopes and dreams made me laugh out loud, tear up, and they consoled me during my own tough times. 这个本来被遗忘的建筑变成了一个极具建设性的地方，这些人的希望和梦想让我放声大笑，也黯然落泪，也曾在我经历困境的时候给我安慰。 It's about knowing you're not alone; it's about understanding our neighbor...
There are a lot of ways the people around us can help improve our lives. 我们周围的人能以很多种方式来帮我们把生活变得更美好。 We don't bump into every neighbor, so a lot of wisdom never gets passed on, though we do share the same public spaces. 我们不一定能常常碰到我们的邻居，所以即使我们生活在同一片公共空间里，邻居的智慧也难以被传递开来。 So over the past few years, I&#...
In 2009, I lost someone I loved very much. Her name was Joan, and she was a mother to me. 2009年，我失去了一个我挚爱的人，她的名字叫琼，对我来讲，她就像我的母亲一样。 And her death was sudden and unexpected. And I thought about death a lot. And … this made me feel deep gratitude for the time I've had. 她死得很突然，没有人预料到，然后我思考了很多关于死亡的事，然后，...
美国心理学家最新调查研究表明：当人们想到死亡或不得不面对生死抉择时，往往变得更快乐。 “生存还是死亡，这是一个值得思考的问题”，这是《哈姆雷特》中的名句。在大多数人看来，死亡难免让人心生恐惧，更无快乐可言。而美国11月《心理学》杂志发布的最新研究报告则认为，当人们想到死亡或不得不面对生死抉择时，往往变得更快乐。研究人员称，这是一种心理免疫反应——想到死亡时，...