Life Without Limbs 没有四肢的生命
I've gone through a life without limbs into a life without limits, what about you?
我从生来没有四肢,转进入没有限制的人生!那你呢?
For instance, although scientists know snakes can burrow more efficiently without arms and legs, exactly how they lost their limbs remains a mystery.
例如,科学家知道没有四肢的蛇钻洞更有效率,但是它们的四肢究竟是如何退化的,依然是个谜。
"You and I sense where our limbs are spatially without having to look at them, whereas amputees don't," says Stanford University graduate student Karlin Bark.
“你我都能感知到我们肢体所处的方位,瞧都不用瞧一眼,但是接受截肢手术的患者们没法这样。”斯坦福大学的研究生Karlin Bark说。
You remember, thalidomide is the drug which was actually really most used as sleeping aid that when pregnant women took were shown to produce deformities, children who were born without limbs for example.
你应该知道这种药品,实际上它是用来辅助睡眠的,但是,如果孕妇吃了这种药,就可能造成胎儿畸形,可能生出来的婴儿是没有四肢的。
We banned that drug and I haven't heard anybody saying that that was a wrong decision, that we should allow pregnant women who want to sleep better to take a drug that will mean their children are born without limbs.
我们禁止了这种药物的使用,但我们从未听说,有人认为这是个错误的决定,也从未有人说,我们应该允许,失眠的孕妇使用这种药品,即使她们的孩子可能从出生就没有四肢。
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