The Human Body: Life Story 生命物语-2

She'll crawl¹ 150 kilometers before she's two. From then on, she'll learn a new word every two hours for the next 10 years. By the time she's ten, her heart would have beaten 368 million times. She'll spend a little over 12 years watching TV and two and a half years on the telephone. She will spend 2 weeks kissing. She'll grow 28 meters of fingernails and 950 kilometers of hair on her head and more than 2 meters up her nose.

By the age of 21, she'd have breathed over 3.5 million balloons of air. She'll work for a total of just over 8 years. And she'll produce 200 billion new red blood cells each and every day. She'll be able to put a name to 2,000 people, 150 of them she’ll call her friends. She will shed² 19 kilograms of dead skin.

She'll have sex 2,580 times with 5 different people. She'll fall in love twice. She'll blink³ 415 million times and her eyes will be able to distinguish⁴ over a million colours. If she gets married, she'll spend 6,809 pounds on her wedding day. And there is a 60% chance she will stay married to the same person for the rest of her life. She'll have 2 children and 4 grandchildren. And when they grow up, only 2 of her 8 great-grandchildren will remember what her name was. In Britain she's likely to live for 79 years, in France 82, in North America 80 and in Africa only 55. By that time she'll have walked over 22,000 kilometers and talked for 12 years.

words and expressions

can put a name to sb : something that you say when you can remember someone's name.可以记住某人的名字
eg. I can picture his face exactly but I can't put a name to him.

1 crawl   

vi.／n.爬行，匍匐行进；缓慢(费力)地行进

参考例句：

• We learn to crawl before we learn to walk.我们学会走路之前先要学会爬。
• She slowed the car to a crawl.她把车开得很慢。

2 shed   

n.车棚，小屋，脱落之物，分水岭；vt.使流出，放射，脱落，散发，摆脱；vi. 流出

参考例句：

• There are a lot of straws in the shed.棚子里有许多稻草。
• His nose told him that he was getting near the cow shed.他的嗅觉告诉他，他正走近牛棚。

3 blink   

vi.眨眼睛，闪烁；vt.眨（眼睛），使闪烁

参考例句：

• In a blink of an eye he had disappeared.一眨眼的工夫他就没影了。
• The boy disappeared around the corner in a blink of an eye.一眨眼，这男孩就在拐角处不见了。

4 distinguish   

vt.区别，辩明，识别，辨认出；vi.区别，辨别，识别

参考例句：

• It is not easy to distinguish cultured pearls from genuine pearls.辨别真正的珍珠与养殖的珍珠不容易。
• Some people find it difficult to distinguish right from wrong.一些人认为很难辨对与错。