Paternally imprinted genes may have particularly free rein in males, Kono's team reasoned, and may govern traits such as living fast and dying young.
Kono领导的团队推测:带有父亲印记的基因可能对男性有特别自由的控制,从而使之短寿、早逝。
The breakthrough is unlikely to lead to drugs that dramatically extend lifespan, but doctors say it may help prolong the lives of patients whose genes make them susceptible to dying young.
尽管这项突破不太可能带来大幅延长人类寿命的药物,但医生指出,这项研究也许有助于延长那些由于自身基因而更易早逝的病人的寿命。
When he did not come she believed herself spurned; in fact, he lay in his barracks, quarantined and dying from Spanish flu-the same disease that killed the young woman days later.
等不到情人的出现,她以为自己被情人抛弃了。殊不知此刻他的情人正躺在隔离营房内,身患西班牙流感而死亡——几天后这位年轻女人被同样的疾病夺去了生命。
And one of the reasons that's most responsible for that is that humans aren't dying at as young an age from infectious diseases as they did three or four hundred years ago.
最重要的一个原因就是,人们不会在年轻的时候死于传染性疾病,而这在三四百年前确实会发生
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