纪录片《药物依赖》 第11期：道德争论

Professor Sahakian found the drug had

萨哈金教授发现这种药物

also boosted levels of chemical messengers in healthy brains,

也可以提高健康大脑内化学递质的水平

increasing their concentration levels too.

进而也提高他们的专注性

We were a bit surprised that

我们有一些惊讶于

in healthy people you could boost cognition.

它也可以提高健康人的认知能力

It reveals ADHD is not a black and white disorder¹.

这表明 注意力不集中症状并不绝对

It's a spectrum², a spectrum we are all on.

它只是个范围 人人都可能有点

Some people are very impulsive³,

有些人很冲动

other people are not impulsive at all.

有些人却一点也不

I think we all know friends of

我想我们都认识这样一些朋友

ours who might do something that we wouldn't do

他们会做出我们不会做的事情

and then it's a question of if we go

只要我们将范围扩大

further up that spectrum, that we may start to find somebody

我们就会开始发现

who is actually not functioning very well

有些人并不是很健康

because their impulsive behaviour or their lack of attention

因为他们的行为冲动或缺乏注意力

is very bad and therefore they do actually need a treatment.

是不好的表现 他们亟需治疗

This potential to make us all cleverer

这种使人变聪明的潜在可能性

opens an ethical⁴ minefield.

引发一场道德上的争论

1 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

2 spectrum   

n.谱，光谱，频谱；范围，幅度，系列

参考例句：

• This is a kind of atomic spectrum.这是一种原子光谱。
• We have known much of the constitution of the solar spectrum.关于太阳光谱的构成，我们已了解不少。

3 impulsive   

adj.冲动的，刺激的；有推动力的

参考例句：

• She is impulsive in her actions.她的行为常出于冲动。
• He was neither an impulsive nor an emotional man,but a very honest and sincere one.他不是个一冲动就鲁莽行事的人，也不多愁善感.他为人十分正直、诚恳。

4 ethical   

adj.伦理的，道德的，合乎道德的

参考例句：

• It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。
• It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。