Because of this, they can't repair the various kinds of damage they need, or create the amino acids and proteins they need.

他们不能修复各种损伤,或者生成所需的氨基酸蛋白质

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And so, from the study of brain damage and the study of— we can gain some understanding of what different parts of the brain do.

通过对脑损伤的研究,我们可以了解到大脑不同区域的功能

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You can take a lot of brain damage and still preserve some mental functioning.

即便是你受到了严重的脑损伤,也依然能够维持一些心理功能

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A patient who had damage to part of his brain and can only say one word, "Tan," and the person would say, "Tan, tan, tan, tan," and everything else was gone.

一位大脑遭受部分损伤的病人,这位病人只会说一个字,"叹",说起话来这样的,"叹,叹,叹,叹",其他的词全都无法说出

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The issue of psychopathy, of people who, either due to brain damage or because they are born that way, have no moral understanding, can help us cope with questions of free will and responsibility; of the relationship or difference between mental illness and evil.

比如那些精神病人,不论是因为大脑受损而造成的,还是先天性的,并没有道德观念,可以帮助我们研究自由和责任的问题,或是研究心理疾病与邪恶的关系或区别

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And the logic is if you find somebody-- Crudely, if you find somebody with damage to this part of the brain right here and that person can't recognize faces for instance, there's some reason to believe that this part of the brain is related to face recognition.

这里的逻辑是这样的,比如说,如果你发现某人,大脑的右边这一部分受到了损伤,他无法进行面孔识别,那么就有理由相信,大脑的这部分是与面孔识别有关的

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