The Human Body: Life Story 生命物语-13
- 1 The Human Body: Life Story 生命物语-13
(Come on, let's talk about sex, baby, let's talk about you and me, let's talk about...)
When it comes to growing up, 12-year-old Beatrice will ride the roller coaster of puberty.
(let's talk about sex, let's talk about you and me...)
When you are a teenager, apparently 1 you go bolshy, you get your periods, you get pubic hair. You get taller, you get, er, sort of, er, you go wide at the hips 2, I think it is, I can't remember. It's painful to run. I wanna tell you that because what happens up above, you have to start wearing a bra, sorry. (I) have to mention that, it gets really painful to run.
Month by month, Jeff and Philipper will share with us perhaps the body's greatest miracle.
I just marvel 3 at the fact that all of this is going on, there's no real intervention 4 for me, it's just my body taking over and doing it all, and I'm not, not in control of it, at , at all really, it just all happens.
In adulthood 5, we reach the peak of human achievement. Marsha, an astronaut, has scaled the heights.
There is nothing in our experience, genetic 6, metaphysical, emotional, psychological experience that prepares us for being off the planet. You know, you can look at all of the pictures that come back from space, and you can look at the videos and there are something about looking out of the window that is not describable.
And we'll be living through the ravages of aging with 76-year-old Bud and his wife Viola. They live and work on a farm in the Midwest of America.
What I remember about Bud, he had the prettiest waviest 8 hair.
Ha-ha.
That's different now, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
Ha-ha, and his skin was smooth, no wrinkles, and didn't have any little pot here.
Ha-ha.
And in our last chapter, as his body slowly succumbs 9 to cancer, Herby will take us on his final journey.
I know, I'll never see this film in my lifetime.
words and expressions
roller coaster :(original meaning here is 过山车)Something, such as an action, event, or experience, that is marked by abrupt 10, extreme changes in circumstance, quality, or behavior:
急转突变的行为、事件或经历：指环境、品质或行为上发生了突忽而极端变化的东西
puberty:The stage of adolescence 11 in which an individual becomes physiologically 12 capable of sexual reproduction.青春期：青少年阶段
bolshy:<俚>反叛的, 顽强的
period:An instance or occurrence of menstruation.经期
pubic: of, relating to, or located in the region of the pubis or the pubes.阴部的，耻骨的
ravage:Grievous damage; havoc:
灾难：极大的损失；灾祸：
the ravages 7 of disease.
疾病的毁减性
succumb to:屈服于
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
- They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
- The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。
- The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
- Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
- Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
- Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。
- It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
- Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
- the ravages of war 战争造成的灾难
- It is hard for anyone to escape from the ravages of time. 任何人都很难逃避时间的摧残。
- Eventually the virus prevails and the infected person succumbs to the infection. 最终病毒体会战胜药物，而导致感染者死亡。
- A German lender succumbs to perverse incentives. Who's next? 一德国贷方受制屈服于非正当（投资）动机。谁将步其后尘？
- The river takes an abrupt bend to the west.这河突然向西转弯。
- His abrupt reply hurt our feelings.他粗鲁的回答伤了我们的感情。
- Adolescence is the process of going from childhood to maturity.青春期是从少年到成年的过渡期。
- The film is about the trials and tribulations of adolescence.这部电影讲述了青春期的麻烦和苦恼。
- Therefore, the liver and gallbladder cannot be completely separated physiologically and pathologically. 因此，肝胆在生理和病理上不能完全分离。
- Therefore, the liver and gallbladder are closely related physiologically and pathologically. 因此，肝胆在生理和病理上紧密联系。