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 sto
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
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 th
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 t
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
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 i
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
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
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
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 a
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
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 a
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
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，
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 p
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
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 s
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
