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剑桥大学的研究员奥布里德格雷Aubrey de Grey认为，衰老只不过是一种疾病——一种可治愈的疾病。根据奥布里德格雷Aubrey de Grey，人类的衰老主要体现在7个方面，所有这一切都可以得以避免。
adj. 有定义的，确定的；清晰的，轮廓分明的 v. 使
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- 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 about overpopulation; they say,
- 人们担心人口过多，他们说，
- "Well, if we fix aging, no one's going to die to speak of,
- “好吧，如果我们战胜老化，没有人类死亡可言，
- or at least the death toll is going to be much lower,
- 或至少是死亡人数变得低得多，
- only from crossing St. Giles carelessly.
- 变得只有不小心越过圣吉尔斯河而死。
- And therefore, we're not going to be able to have many kids,
- 因此，我们不需要有很多孩子，
- and kids are really important to most people."
- 可是孩子对多数人很重要。”
- And that's true.
- 这是事实。
- And you know, a lot of people try to fudge this question,
- 你知道，很多人试图捏造这个问题，
- and give answers like this.
- 并给予这样的答案。
- I don't agree with those answers. I think they basically don't work.
- 我不同意这些答案。我认为它们根本行不通。
- I think it's true, that we will face a dilemma in this respect.
- 我认为这是真的，我们会在这方面面临两难。
- We will have to decide whether to have a low birth rate,
- 我们将必须决定是否有一个低生育水平，
- or a high death rate.
- 或者高死亡率。
- A high death rate will, of course, arise from simply rejecting these therapies,
- 拒绝这些战胜老化治疗，死亡率就会变高，
- in favor of carrying on having a lot of kids.
- 当然，在这种情况下我们就能生许多孩子。
- And, I say that that's fine --
- 我觉得这没问题 –
- the future of humanity is entitled to make that choice.
- 人类的下一代，有权做出这个选择。
- What's not fine is for us to make that choice on behalf of the future.
- 不正确和不应该的是我们现在就替下一代的做出这个选择。
- If we vacillate, hesitate,
- 如果因为我们犹豫，
- and do not actually develop these therapies,
- 而不开发这些疗法，
- then we are condemning a whole cohort of people --
- 那么我们就等于判了我们的子孙一个不能永远活着的命运。
- who would have been young enough and healthy enough
- 本来因为他们够年轻，够健康，
- to benefit from those therapies, but will not be,
- 可以获益于这些疗法。
- because we haven't developed them as quickly as we could --
- 但因为我们的犹豫，没有尽快开发这些疗法 –
- we'll be denying those people an indefinite life span,
- 我们等于不让这些人有更长的寿命，
- and I consider that that is immoral.
- 我认为这是不道德的。
- That's my answer to the overpopulation question.
- 这是我对人口过多的问题的回应。
- Right. So the next thing is,
- 好，接下来的是，
- now why should we get a little bit more active on this?
- 为什么我们应该在这一方面积极点？
- And the fundamental answer is that
- 最根本的答案是，
- the pro-aging trance is not as dumb as it looks.
- 亲老化恍惚并不像它看起来的那么笨。
- It's actually a sensible way of coping with the inevitability of aging.
- 它其实是在应对无法避免的老化时的一个很明智的办法。
- Aging is ghastly, but it's inevitable, so, you know,
- 老化是可怕的，但它是不可避免的，所以，
- we've got to find some way to put it out of our minds,
- 我们必须想尽办法把这想法从我们头脑中忘记，
- and it's rational to do anything that we might want to do, to do that.
- 理性地去做我们想要做的事情来改变。
- Like, for example, making up these ridiculous reasons
- 例如，人类会想出这些荒谬的原因
- why aging is actually a good thing after all.
- 来解释其实老化是件好事。
- But of course, that only works when we have both of these components.
- 当然，这些荒谬的原因的起因有两个连接部分
- And as soon as the inevitability bit becomes a little bit unclear --
- 只要命中注定那个部分在我们的脑海中没那么的肯定，
- and we might be in range of doing something about aging --
- 我们就可以开始对战胜老化采取行动，
- this becomes part of the problem.
- 这是老化问题的一部分。
- This pro-aging trance is what stops us from agitating about these things.
- 这亲老化恍惚常常妨碍人们解决老化这个问题。
- And that's why we have to really talk about this a lot --
- 这就是为什么我们一定要继续提出以及谈论这个课题，
- evangelize, I will go so far as to say, quite a lot --
- 我甚至会说 –
- in order to get people's attention, and make people realize
- 为了吸引人们的注意力，使人们认识到，
- that they are in a trance in this regard.
- 他们在这方面的恍惚，
- So that's all I'm going to say about that.
- 关于这个话题我就说到这里。
- I'm now going to talk about feasibility.
- 我现在要谈的是第三点，打败老化的可行性。
- And the fundamental reason, I think, why we feel that aging is inevitable
- 其根本原因，我想，为什么我们认为老化是不可避免的，
- is summed up in a definition of aging that I'm giving here.
- 是可以用我在这儿给老化的定义作为总结。
- A very simple definition.
- 这是一个非常简单的定义。
- Aging is a side effect of being alive in the first place,
- 老化是一种活着的副作用，
- which is to say, metabolism.
- 也就是说，新陈代谢的副作用。
- This is not a completely tautological statement;
- 这并不是一个完全同义重复的声明，
- it's a reasonable statement.
- 它是一个合理的声明。
- Aging is basically a process that happens to inanimate objects like cars,
- 老龄化基本上是一个过程，发生在无生命的物体如汽车，
- and it also happens to us,
- 也发生在人类的身上，
- despite the fact that we have a lot of clever self-repair mechanisms,
- 尽管我们的身体有很多聪明的自我修复机制，
- because those self-repair mechanisms are not perfect.
- 因为这些自我修复机制还不完善。
- So basically, metabolism, which is defined as
- 基本上，新陈代谢，就是说
- basically everything that keeps us alive from one day to the next,
- 所有为了让我们能够每一天活着所维持的种种化学过程，
- has side effects.
- 有副作用。
- Those side effects accumulate and eventually cause pathology.
- 这些副作用会不断的积累，最终导致病理。
- That's a fine definition. So we can put it this way:
- 这是一个不错的定义。因此，我们可以这样表达,
- we can say that, you know, we have this chain of events.
- 我们可以说，大家都知道，我们有着这一系列事件。
- And there are really two games in town,
- 而且根据大多数人，对于推迟衰老，
- according to most people, with regard to postponing aging.
- 只有两种方法。
- They're what I'm calling here the "gerontology approach" and the "geriatrics approach."
- 这两种方法就是老年学和老年医学。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| defined | [di'faind] | |||
| accumulate | [ə'kju:mjuleit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| definition | [.defi'niʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| humanity | [hju:'mæniti] | |||
| range | [reindʒ] | |||
| span | [spæn] | |||
| ridiculous | [ri'dikjuləs] | 联想记忆 | ||
| eventually | [i'ventjuəli] | |||
| sensible | ['sensəbl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| haven | ['heivn] | 联想记忆 |
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