时差N小时 什么是达尔文医学?(上)

Sounds like you have a bad cold, Don.

听起来你像是患了重感冒，唐。

Do you need some cough medicine?

需要些咳嗽药吗？

Nope.

不用。

Tylenol?

泰诺呢？

No thanks.

不，谢谢。

Don't you want anything to help you feel better?

你不想吃药来缓解一下症状吗？

I don't need help, Yael. All this sniffling, sneezing, and coughing are doing the work forme.

我不需要帮助，雅艾尔。流鼻涕，打喷嚏和咳嗽都在帮我治疗。

But doesn't that make you feel worse?

但是难道这样你不会觉得更难受吗？

There's more than one way to look at sneezing and coughing.

看待打喷嚏和咳嗽可不能只用一种方式。

They can be symptoms, in which case your first reaction is to try to "cure" them with all sorts of pills and syrups¹.

它们可以是症状，在这种情况下，你的第一反应是用各种药片和药水进行治疗。

Or, you can see them as the body's natural defense² system.

而另外一方面，你可以将它们视作身体的自然防御系统。

It's called Darwinian medicine.

它被称为达尔文医学。

You mean like survival³ of the fittest?

就是说像适者生存之类的？

Not exactly.

也不完全是。

Darwinian medicine tries to find evolutionary⁴ explanations for why we get sick.

达尔文医学试图从进化论角度解释我们为什么会生病。

It also tries to figure out how and why we respond to sickness.

它也试图找出我们如何以及为什么应对疾病。

1 syrups   

n.糖浆，糖汁( syrup的名词复数 )；糖浆类药品

参考例句：

• A variety of cocktails were created all using Monin syrups and purees. 我们用莫林糖浆和果泥创作了许多鸡尾酒。 来自互联网
• Other applications include fruit juices, flavors, and sugar syrups. 其它的应用包括水果汁、香精和糖浆。 来自互联网

2 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

3 survival   

n.留住生命，生存，残存，幸存者

参考例句：

• The doctor told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.医生告诉我的妻子，说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
• The old man was a survival of a past age.这位老人是上一代的遗老。

4 evolutionary   

adj.进化的；演化的，演变的；[生]进化论的

参考例句：

• Life has its own evolutionary process.生命有其自身的进化过程。
• These are fascinating questions to be resolved by the evolutionary studies of plants.这些十分吸引人的问题将在研究植物进化过程中得以解决。