TED中英官方演讲稿-BruceAylward_2011我们怎样才能根除脊髓灰质炎.docxVIP

1.I want to share with you over the next 18 minutes a pretty incredible idea. 我要 在接下来的18分钟内 与大家分享一个不可思议的愿景2.Actually, its a really big idea. 一个非常雄伟的愿景3.But to get us started, I want to ask if everyone could just close your eyes for two seconds and try and think of a technology or a bit of science 不过首先 我想请在座各位 闭上双眼在几秒钟内想一想 某种技术或者科学4.that you think has changed the world. 在你看来，改变了世界5.Now I bet, in this audience, youre thinking of some really incredible technology, some stuff that I havent even heard of, Im absolutely sure. 我打赌，这里所有的观众 你一定想到了某种神奇的技术 某种我甚至没听说过的玩意儿 绝对是的6.But Im also sure, pretty sure, that absolutely nobody is thinking of this. 但我同时也确信，非常肯定 绝对没有人想到它7.This is a polio vaccine. 这是一支脊髓灰质炎疫苗8.And its a great thing actually that nobodys had to think about it here today, because it means that we can take this for granted. 其实，这很好 今天在座没人想到它 是因为我们已将它视为理所当然9.This is a great technology. 这是一项伟大的技术10.We can take it completely for granted. 我们可以完全地应用它11.But it wasnt always that way. 但是过去并不是这样12.Even here in California, if we were to go back just a few years, it was a very different story. 甚至就在这里，加利福尼亚 如果退后几十年 情况可大不相同13.People were terrified of this disease. 当时，人们惧怕这种疾病14.They were terrified of polio, and it would cause public panic. 他们十分害怕脊髓灰质炎，它能引起公众惊恐15.And it was because of scenes like this. 原因就如图中所示16.In this scene, people are living in an iron lung. 在这张图片里 人们生活在铁制的肺中17.these are people who were perfectly healthy two or three days before, and then two days later, they can no longer breathe, and this polio virus has paralyzed, 这些人，两三天前还相当健康 可几天后 便丧失呼吸功能 脊髓灰质炎病毒18.not only their arms and their legs, but also their breathing muscles. 不仅仅瘫痪了他们的四肢 就连控制呼吸的肌肉也不放过19.And they were going to spend the rest of their lives, usually, in this iron lung, to breath for them. 通常，他们的余生都得在 铁肺里度过20.This disease was terrifying; there was no cure, and there was no vaccine. 这个疾病十分可怕 当时却没有疗法 也没有疫苗21.The disease w