The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

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We want to know as curious people how children learn language, what we find attractive or unattractive, and what's the basis for mental illness.

人类的好奇心驱使我们去探索,儿童如何学习语言,什么会被感知为迷人或丑陋,心理疾病的成因又是什么

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So, you're treating healthy people and you're trying to prevent them from getting a disease and you don't know who's going to get it.

所以,你处治的对象是健康人群,要使他们远离疾病,但你不知道谁会被感染

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There are people who are dying of diseases for which there are known cures because they don't have the best medicine, which are often not even expensive but they're living in such poverty.

有些人因疾病而死,而这些疾病是可以被治愈的,但是他们没有最好的药物,有些药甚至并不是很昂贵,但是他们实在生活太困窘了

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And the Spanish, a much smaller group of people was able to overtake the Aztec civilization, very well established, because that group of people was devastated by the disease.

那些西班牙人,只是一支较小的队伍,他们之所以战胜高度发达的阿兹特克文明,是因为阿兹特克人被这种疾病摧残了

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And that was possible in smallpox because of a few characteristics of the disease: one is that it's a--it's purely a human disease, humans are the only organisms that are affected by it.

天花能够被根治的原因在于,这种疾病具有以下几个特点,一是,它是一种只有人类才得的疾病,人类是唯一受天花感染的生物

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We did not yet have good methods for screening blood to look for HIV, we didn't have the ELISA technique that I--we talked about in section a few weeks ago and so there was a great concern that there might be other diseases that you'd be passing on from-- unknowingly from this subset of patients that you're isolating the vaccine from.

那时我们还没有一种好的方式,来从血液中筛查出HIV,也还没有ELISA技术,该技术我们在几周前的一个章节中谈到过,因此,那时仍存有,很大的担心,那就是你有可能,在不知情的情况下,被那些病人,感染上其它疾病,因为疫苗就是从他们身上提取出来的

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