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If I hadn't gone to Ohio State and crossed paths with Tom,this child wouldn't have existed and this terrible thing wouldn't have happened. 如果我没有到俄亥俄州立大学，没遇见汤姆，这个孩子就不会存在，这可怕的惨案就不会发生。 But I've come to feel that I love the children I had so much that I don't want to imagine a life without them. 但我觉得我太爱孩子们了...
If I hadn't gone to Ohio State and crossed paths with Tom,this child wouldn't have existed and this terrible thing wouldn't have happened. 如果我没有到俄亥俄州立大学，没遇见汤姆，这个孩子就不会存在，这可怕的惨案就不会发生。 But I've come to feel that I love the children I had so much that I don't want to imagine a life without them. 但我觉得我太爱孩子们了...
When I was little, my mother used to say, 当我很小的时候，母亲曾经说过， The love you have for your children is like no other feeling in the world. 父母对子女的爱是世界上其它一切感情都无法比拟的， And until you have children, you don't know what it's like. 只有当你拥有自己的孩子时，你才能体会到。 And when I was little, I took it as the greatest compliment in the worl...
Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. 听仔细了，当你们抱怨我们的存在，我们听到的就是这个意思。 This is what we hear when you pray for a cure-that your fondest wish for us is that someday we will cease to be and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces. 你们祈祷奇迹出现的时候，我们听到的是你们衷心希望，总有一天我们将不复存在。和...
Ironically, it turns out, that it's our differences, and our negotiation of difference,that unite us. 讽刺的是，事实证明，正是我们的不同和我们协商彼此的不同将我们连结起来。 I decided to have children while I was working on this project. 当我做这个项目的时候我决定要孩子。 And many people were astonished and said, 很多人对此感到惊奇， But how can you decide to have childre...
In the time since that Atlantic Monthly story ran, 自从大西洋月刊刊载了那片文章以来， the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome has tripled. 唐氏综合征患者的寿命增加了两倍。 The experience of Down syndrome people includes those who are actors, 唐氏综合征的人有些是演员， those who are writers, some who are able to live fully independently in adulthood. 作家，有些在成...
It felt as valid perhaps even as American culture. 它甚至可以和美国文化相媲美。 Then a friend of a friend of mine had a daughter who was a dwarf. 我朋友的朋友有个女儿，是个小矮人。 And when her daughter was born, 当她女儿出生的时候， she suddenly found herself confronting questions that now began to seem quite resonant to me. 她突然发现她要面对很多问题，这些问题使我产生共鸣...
And yet, I knew from the work I had done that if he had any of the things we were about to start testing for, 我的工作经验让我得知，如果经过哪些检查，发现他有什么问题， that those would ultimately be his identity,and if they were his identity they would become my identity,that that illness was going to take a very different shape as it unfolded. 那将永久成为他的特性，如果这...
And in the course of his childhood, 他的童年， he had 30 major surgical procedures. 经历了 30次重大外科手术。 And he spent all this time stuck in the hospital while he was having those procedures, 他一直待在医院里，而正是这些治疗过程， as a result of which he now can walk. 让他现在有了行走的能力。 And while he was there, they sent tutors around to help him with his school wo...
So the shorthand is five parents of four children in three states. 五位父母，生了四个孩子，生活在三个不同的州。 And there are people who think that the existence of my family somehow undermines or weakens or damages their family. 当然有些人会认为，这样的家庭的存在，在某种程度上破坏或削弱，甚至损害了他们的家庭。 And there are people who think that families like mine shouldn&#...
Even in purely non-religious terms, 就算抛开宗教信仰的因素， homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty. 同性恋也是性滥交的代名词。 It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality a pitiable flight from life. 它是可悲的，次等的，一种现实的替代品，是人生中一段令人遗憾的旅程。 As such, it deserves no compassion, 因此，同性恋不值得同情， it deserves no t...
There are these other identities which you have to learn from a peer group. 还有一些身份认同是你从同龄人群中获得的。 And I call them horizontal identities, 我称它们为水平身份认同， because the peer group is the horizontal experience. 因为和同伴一起活动，接触，是所谓的一种经验。 These are identities that are alien to your parents and that you have to discover when you get to ...
A compound that has been tested in mice, BMN-111,is useful in preventing the action of the achondroplasia gene. 有一种叫 BMN-111的化合物，经老鼠实验，在抑制软骨发育不全基因方面非常有效。 Achondroplasia is the most common form of dwarfism, 软骨发育不全是侏儒症最常见的表现形式， and mice who have been given that substance and who have the achondroplasia gene,grow to full size....
I'm going to quote from another magazine of the'60s. 我要去引述1960年代，另一家杂志刊载的话。 This one is from 1968-The Atlantic Monthly, voice of liberal America-written by an important bioethicist. 这是1968 年出版的大西洋月刊，美国的自由主义之声，作者是知名的生物伦理学专家。 He said, There is no reason to feel guilty about putting a Down syndrome child away, 他说，...