All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's a devastating, frequently fatal infectious disease.

它是一种毁灭性的,频繁发病的致命疾病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

These are two examples I just gave you of introducing genes that affect the life of a cell, either by making it express a protein that it's not making properly that's important to its life, or by intentionally killing a cell by having it express a fatal gene.

刚才我所举两个例子,都只是影响单一细胞生命过程的,无论是使无法正常表达的重要蛋白,正常表达也好,或是有意地,导入致命的基因杀死细胞也好

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选