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医生兼作家-舍温纽兰讨论电击疗法的发展，它可用于治疗危及生命的抑郁症，包括治愈了他自己的病症。这是一个关于治疗、救赎以及第二次生命的感人至深的演讲。
adv. 本质上，本来
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- So they got very interested in producing convulsions, measured types of convulsions.
- 所以他们对诱发抽搐很感兴趣，控制抽搐的程度。
- And they thought, "Well, we've got electricity, we'll plug somebody into the wall.
- 他们认为，“我们有电源，我们可以把身体通电试试看。
- That always makes hair stand up and people shake a lot."
- 这样通电后体验者人头发竖起，身体颤动。”
- So, they tried it on a few pigs, and none of the pigs were killed.
- 于是，他们在猪身上做了几次试验，没有一头猪被电死。
- So, they went to the police and they said,
- 然后他们去找警察说，
- "We know that at the Rome railroad station,
- “我们知道在罗马火车站
- there are all these lost souls wandering around, muttering gibberish.
- 很多无家可归之人四处流浪，成天疯疯癫癫，
- Can you bring one of them to us?"
- 你们能带来一个给我们做实验吗？”
- Someone who is, as the Italians say, "cagoots."
- 这就是意大利人常说的“脑袋秀逗”，“短路了”
- So they found this "cagoots" guy, a 39-year-old man who was really hopelessly schizophrenic,
- 于是他们找到了这样一个”脑袋秀逗“的人，一个39岁的重度精神分裂男患者
- who was known, had been known for months, to be literally defecating on himself,
- 众人都知道他已经好几个月了，他在自己身上大小便，
- talking nothing that made any sense, and they brought him into the hospital.
- 整天胡言乱语，他被送到医院。
- So these three psychiatrists, after about two or three weeks of observation,
- 接下来这三个精神病专家经过2-3周的观察，
- laid him down on a table, connected his temples to a very small source of current.
- 让他平躺到一个桌子上，把他的太阳穴用非常微弱的电流连接起来。
- They thought, "Well, we'll try 55 volts, two-tenths of a second.
- 他们想“我们先试55伏特，2/10秒。
- That's not going to do anything terrible to him."
- 这不会对他造成伤害。”
- So they did that.
- 然后他们就尝试了。
- Well, I have the following from a firsthand observer, who told me this about 35 years ago,
- 下面是我从一个第一手观察者处获得的，他在35年前告诉我的，
- when I was thinking about these things for some research project of mine.
- 当时我正在思考电疗这些事情，我有些研究项目，
- He said, "This fellow" -- remember, he wasn't even put to sleep --
- 他说，“这家伙”——记着，甚至没法让他入睡——
- "after this major grand mal convulsion, sat right up, looked at these three fellas and said,
- “在这次癫痫大发作以后，立刻坐起来，盯着三个专家说，
- 'What the fuck are you assholes trying to do?' "
- “你们他妈的想对我做什么？”
- If I could only say that in Italian.
- 如果我能用意大利语说这个就好了。
- Well, they were happy as could be, because he hadn't said a rational word in the weeks of observation.
- 专家们很高兴，因为这个流浪汉在过去几周观察期间，从未说过如此清醒符合逻辑的话。
- So they plugged him in again, and this time they used 110 volts for half a second.
- 于是，他们又给他通电，这次，他们用110伏特，持续半秒。
- And to their amazement, after it was over, he began speaking like he was perfectly well.
- 让他们吃惊的是，经过这次尝试，流浪汉开始说话，完全跟正常人一样了。
- He relapsed a little bit, they gave him a series of treatments, and he was essentially cured.
- 他偶尔复发，专家继续进行一系列的治疗，他基本上被治愈了。
- But of course, having schizophrenia, within a few months, it returned.
- 当然，他有精神分裂症，几个月内又患病了。
- But they wrote a paper about this,
- 但是专家们针对这个试验完成了篇报告，
- and everybody in the Western world began using electricity to convulse people who were either schizophrenic or severely depressed.
- 然后西方医疗界开始使用电击疗法诱发病人抽搐，以治疗精神分裂症或者严重抑郁症。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| essentially | [i'senʃəli] | |||
| convulse | [kən'vʌls] | 联想记忆 | ||
| measured | ['meʒəd] | |||
| rational | ['ræʃənəl] | |||
| observation | [.ɔbzə'veiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| convulsion | [kən'vʌlʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| depressed | [di'prest] | 联想记忆 | ||
| source | [sɔ:s] | |||
| current | ['kʌrənt] | 联想记忆 |
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