Well, the sense of the body as grotesque goes beyond just dismemberment.

感觉身体是丑陋的，这种思维已经不仅是分裂的了。

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But in some cases, that progressions of the disease would start to affect other organs, in addition to your skin, and your body would become overwhelmed with the infection and eventually die.

但在某些情况下,疾病的蔓延,会开始影响其它器官,不仅是皮肤,你的身体在受到感染后全线崩溃,直至死亡

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It's - a suture or a stitch has to hold the wound closed so it has to have certain mechanical strength and imagine the problem of making something that's dissolvable so it disappears but also is strong enough to hold a wound closed reliably for a length of time.

能够拉紧切口的缝合线,就必须具有一定的机械张力,大家想像一下制造这种缝合线的难度,身体组织不仅要能吸收这种缝合线,而且这种线必须有足够的张力,一定时间内能够拉紧切口

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