TED中英官方演讲稿-FrancisCollins_2012P我们需要更好地药物——就是现在.docxVIP

1.So let me ask for a show of hands. 請用舉手的方式回答我。2.How many people here are over the age of 48? 多少人超過48歲？3.Well, there do seem to be a few. 看來並不多。4.Well, congratulations, because if you look at this particular slide of U.S. life expectancy, you are now in excess of the average life span 恭喜大家， 因為如果當你看到這張幻燈片上美國人的預期壽命， 現在各位的壽命都超過5.of somebody who was born in 1900. 1900 年出生的一些人。6.But look what happened in the course of that century. 但看看在這個世紀裏發生了什麼事。7.If you follow that curve, youll see that it starts way down there. 如果各位沿著這條曲線， 可以看到它從這下降了。8.Theres that dip there for the 1918 flu. 那就是因爲 1918 年大流感。9.And here we are at 2010, average life expectancy of a child born today, age 79, and we are not done yet. 這是 2010 年的數據， 這一年出生的小孩，預估平均壽命為 79 歲， 而且還會繼續增長。10.Now, thats the good news. 目前，這是個好消息。11.But theres still a lot of work to do. 但還有很多工作要做。12.So, for instance, if you ask, how many diseases do we now know the exact molecular basis? 舉例來說，如果你問， 我們現在到底知道多少疾病的 精確的分子基礎？13.Turns out its about 4,000, which is pretty amazing, because most of those molecular discoveries have just happened in the last little while. 說穿了大概就是 4,000 種，這是非常了不起的， 而且發現這些分子大部分都是 最近前發生的。14.Its exciting to see that in terms of what weve learned, but how many of those 4,000 diseases now have treatments available? 從已知的觀點，很興奮可以看到這樣的結果， 但是 4000 種疾病中，有多少疾病 現在有治療方法？15.Only about 250. 大概祇有 250 種。16.So we have this huge challenge, this huge gap. 所以我們面對著非常巨大的挑戰，巨大的差距。17.You would think this wouldnt be too hard, that we would simply have the ability to take this fundamental information that were learning 您可能會想這件事也不會太困難， 我們很容易就能 獲取基本資訊，18.about how it is that basic biology teaches us about the causes of disease and build a bridge across this yawning gap between what weve learned about basic science 關於基礎生物學是如何告訴我們的 關於疾病的生成原因 以及在一條大壕溝的上面蓋一座橋樑， 一邊是我們學到的基礎科學，19.and its application, a bridge that would look maybe something like this, where youd have to put to