I can choose to see ALS as nothing more than a death sentence or I can choose to see it as an invitation - an opportunity to learn who I truly am.

我可以选择把肌萎缩性侧索硬化症仅仅看作是一个死亡的宣判，我也可以选择将他看作是一个邀请-一个真正认识我自己的机会。

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But at age 21 he developed the first symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disorder that would inevitably render him paralyzed and incapable of performing most kinds of work.

可是他在21岁的时候，出现了肌萎缩性（脊髓）侧索硬化的征兆；这一疾病不可避免地要导致瘫痪，使他很多事都不能做。

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Hawking has ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which has confined him to a wheelchair and leaves him unable to speak without the help of a computerized voice synthesizer.

霍金患有肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化症，简称ALS，他只能坐在轮椅上，说话必须依赖电脑语音发生器。

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ALS is a deadly disease affecting the motor nerves and the voluntary muscles.

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They had raised millions of dollars in a failed effort to find a cure for ALS and also ended up creating a data-sharing patient social network to go with it.

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The new trial would join a small number of other therapies in human trials for ALS, including a nerve-protectant called TCH-346 in second-stage trials at the Swiss drug firm Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ).

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ALS, a disease of the nervous system, impairs muscle movement and eventually results in total paralysis.

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