Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean.

延长寿命在医学上变得越来越可行，但它往往是一种被剥夺了一切的生命，而且随着资源变得过度紧张和政治变得卑鄙，生命会暴露在令人堕落的忽视之中。

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In the experiment of extending life, an ancient saying, "you are what you eat, " also seems to be true.

说起延长寿命，有一句古老的谚语似乎一语中地： “吃什么就是什么” 。

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Professor Tim Spector of King's College London, who also works on the ageing process, says the focus is not on extending life, but on extending good health.

研究老化过程的伦敦大学国王学院的斯佩克特教授说，工作的重点不是延长寿命，但是是改善良好健康状况。

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Since then,similar studies have shown life-extending effects of reduced diets on rodents, yeast and worms.

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For example, you all know that the only treatment for some diseases is to get an organ transplant: a kidney transplant, or a liver transplant is the only life extending intervention that can be done for some kinds of diseases.

你们都知道,有些疾病只能,通过器官移植来治疗,肾移植,肝移植是在某些疾病的治疗中,唯一能够延长生命的手段

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Extending life expectancy is not a benefit if the last years of life are spent in painful and undignified circumstances.

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Professor Tim Spector of King's College London, who also works on the ageing process, says the focus is not on extending life, but on extending good health.

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The genetic domino effect that his team uncovered may have less to do with extending life, he says, then with making it possible to survive caloric restriction at all.

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