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BOOKS · The Body: A Guide for Occupants

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人体科普医学史健康
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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted." The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information.
中文翻译
畅销书《几乎万物简史》的作者比尔·布莱森带领我们从头到脚参观了人体这一奇迹。这本书内容全面,令人上瘾,是 Bryson 最好的作品,是每个人必读的用户手册。比尔·布莱森(Bill Bryson)再次证明自己是一位无与伦比的伴侣,他引导我们了解人体的运作方式、非凡的自愈能力以及(不幸的是)它可能失败的方式。 《身体》充满了非凡的事实(自从你开始阅读本文以来,你的身体产生了一百万个红细胞)和令人难以抗拒的布莱森式轶事,《身体》将引导你更深入地理解生命的奇迹,特别是你的生命。正如比尔·布莱森(Bill Bryson)所写,“我们在肉体的摇晃中度过了我们的存在,但几乎完全认为这是理所当然的。”身体会用大量奇妙的、令人难以抗拒的事实和信息来治愈这种冷漠。
BILL BRYSON's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award). He was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Society.
中文翻译
比尔·布莱森的畅销书包括《林中漫步》、《霹雳小子的一生与时代》和《几乎一切的简史》(荣获英国安万特奖和欧盟最高文学奖笛卡尔奖)。 2005 年至 2011 年,他担任英国第三古老大学杜伦大学 (Durham University) 的校长,同时也是英国皇家学会的荣誉会员。
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The most remarkable part of all is your DNA. You have a metre of it packed into every cell, and so many cells that if you formed all the DNA in your body into a single fine strand it would stretch ten billion miles, to beyond Pluto. Think of it: there is enough of you to leave the solar system. You are in the most literal sense cosmic.
其中最引人注目的部分是您的 DNA。每个细胞中都含有一米长的 DNA,细胞数量如此之多,如果你将体内的所有 DNA 形成一条细链,它将延伸 100 亿英里,延伸到冥王星之外。想一想:你们的数量足以离开太阳系。从最字面上的意义上来说,你是宇宙的。
Just sitting quietly, doing nothing at all, your brain churns through more information in thirty seconds than the Hubble Space Telescope has processed in thirty years. A morsel of cortex one cubic millimeter in size—about the size of a grain of sand—could hold two thousand terabytes of information, enough to store all the movies ever made, trailers included, or about 1.2 billion copies of this book.
只要静静地坐着,什么都不做,你的大脑在三十秒内处理的信息比哈勃太空望远镜三十年来处理的信息还要多。一块一立方毫米大小的皮层(大约相当于一粒沙子的大小)可以容纳 2000TB 的信息,足以存储有史以来制作的所有电影(包括预告片)或大约 12 亿册这本书。
There are thousands of things that can kill us—slightly more than eight thousand, according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems compiled by the World Health Organization—and we escape every one of them but one. For most of us, that’s not a bad deal.
有成千上万种东西可以杀死我们——根据世界卫生组织编制的《国际疾病和相关健康问题统计分类》,大约有八千多种——而我们却避开了每一种,只有一种。对于我们大多数人来说,这并不是一件坏事。
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