The Human Body: Life Story 生命物语-13

(Come on, let's talk about sex, baby, let's talk about you and me, let's talk about...)

When it comes to growing up, 12-year-old Beatrice will ride the roller coaster of puberty.
(let's talk about sex, let's talk about you and me...)

When you are a teenager, apparently¹ you go bolshy, you get your periods, you get pubic hair. You get taller, you get, er, sort of, er, you go wide at the hips², I think it is, I can't remember. It's painful to run. I wanna tell you that because what happens up above, you have to start wearing a bra, sorry. (I) have to mention that, it gets really painful to run.

Month by month, Jeff and Philipper will share with us perhaps the body's greatest miracle.

I just marvel³ at the fact that all of this is going on, there's no real intervention⁴ for me, it's just my body taking over and doing it all, and I'm not, not in control of it, at , at all really, it just all happens.

In adulthood⁵, we reach the peak of human achievement. Marsha, an astronaut, has scaled the heights.

There is nothing in our experience, genetic⁶, metaphysical, emotional, psychological experience that prepares us for being off the planet. You know, you can look at all of the pictures that come back from space, and you can look at the videos and there are something about looking out of the window that is not describable.

And we'll be living through the ravages of aging with 76-year-old Bud and his wife Viola. They live and work on a farm in the Midwest of America.

What I remember about Bud, he had the prettiest waviest⁸ hair.

Ha-ha.

That's different now, isn't it?

Yes, it is.

Ha-ha, and his skin was smooth, no wrinkles, and didn't have any little pot here.

Ha-ha.

And in our last chapter, as his body slowly succumbs⁹ to cancer, Herby will take us on his final journey.

I know, I'll never see this film in my lifetime.

words and expressions

roller coaster :(original meaning here is 过山车)Something, such as an action, event, or experience, that is marked by abrupt¹⁰, extreme changes in circumstance, quality, or behavior:
急转突变的行为、事件或经历：指环境、品质或行为上发生了突忽而极端变化的东西

puberty:The stage of adolescence¹¹ in which an individual becomes physiologically¹² capable of sexual reproduction.青春期：青少年阶段

bolshy:<俚>反叛的, 顽强的

period:An instance or occurrence of menstruation.经期

pubic: of, relating to, or located in the region of the pubis or the pubes.阴部的，耻骨的

ravage:Grievous damage; havoc:
灾难：极大的损失；灾祸：
the ravages⁷ of disease.
疾病的毁减性

succumb to:屈服于

1 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

2 hips   

abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯，耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 )；[建筑学]屋脊；臀围（尺寸）；臀部…的

参考例句：

• She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
• They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 marvel   

vi.(at)惊叹vt.感到惊异；n.令人惊异的事

参考例句：

• The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
• The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。

4 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

5 adulthood   

n.成年，成人期

参考例句：

• Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
• Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。

6 genetic   

adj.遗传的，遗传学的

参考例句：

• It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
• Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。

7 ravages   

劫掠后的残迹，破坏的结果，毁坏后的残迹

参考例句：

• the ravages of war 战争造成的灾难
• It is hard for anyone to escape from the ravages of time. 任何人都很难逃避时间的摧残。

8 waviest   

adj.波状的，有波纹的，起伏的( wavy的最高级 )

参考例句：

9 succumbs   

不再抵抗（诱惑、疾病、攻击等）( succumb的第三人称单数 )； 屈从； 被压垮； 死

参考例句：

• Eventually the virus prevails and the infected person succumbs to the infection. 最终病毒体会战胜药物，而导致感染者死亡。
• A German lender succumbs to perverse incentives. Who's next? 一德国贷方受制屈服于非正当（投资）动机。谁将步其后尘？

10 abrupt   

adj.突然的，意外的；唐突的，鲁莽的

参考例句：

• The river takes an abrupt bend to the west.这河突然向西转弯。
• His abrupt reply hurt our feelings.他粗鲁的回答伤了我们的感情。

11 adolescence   

n.青春期，青少年

参考例句：

• Adolescence is the process of going from childhood to maturity.青春期是从少年到成年的过渡期。
• The film is about the trials and tribulations of adolescence.这部电影讲述了青春期的麻烦和苦恼。

12 physiologically   

ad.生理上，在生理学上

参考例句：

• Therefore, the liver and gallbladder cannot be completely separated physiologically and pathologically. 因此，肝胆在生理和病理上不能完全分离。
• Therefore, the liver and gallbladder are closely related physiologically and pathologically. 因此，肝胆在生理和病理上紧密联系。