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This was not what Arlan had hoped for.
这个结果不是阿伦所希望的
He had expected to confirm the theory, not to disprove it.
他曾希望证明这个学说 而不是推翻它
But this kind of surprise was kind of
这种出乎意料的发现并不让人喜出望外
the bad surprise, and at that point it was like,
在那个时候我想
"Oh, nuts, what, how can we explain this?"
哦 天呢 我们怎么来解释这样的结果呢
We sat back and asked ourselves well,
我们冷静下来问自己
how could we design this experiment differently?
我们该怎么样修改实验设计呢
It was very disappointing for me
实验结果让我相当沮丧
because if I, if I had a chance to script this,
因为我要是有机会修改实验方法
I would have done it the other way.
我会换一种方法进行
Meanwhile, other scientists were also searching for evidence
与此同时 其它科学家也在寻找证据
to support the established oxidative stress theory and
支持已经建立的氧化应激学说
turning to other species for proof.
并在其它物种上寻求证明
The naked mole rat may look, well, weird,
裸克分子鼠也许看起来怪怪的
but it's pulled off a rather clever trick
不过比起他们光秃秃的外皮
which makes it particularly interesting to scientists.
它们身上有更吸引科学家的东西
What, to me, has been so fascinating is
对我来说很有吸引力的是
they have put their little finger up at ageing.
它们的衰老过程十分缓慢

重点解释

Meanwhile, other scientists were also searching for evidence to support the established oxidative stress theory 与此同时，其它科学家也在寻找证据支持已经建立的氧化应激学说

search for:搜寻； 寻找

They made a long search for the lost child.

他们花很长时间寻找失踪的孩子。

We did a computer search for all the hyphenated words.

我们用电脑查找所有用连字符连接的词。

This was not what Arlan had hoped for.这个结果不是阿伦所希望的

hope for:希望； 期待

The doctors held out little hope for his recovery.

大夫们都对他恢复健康不抱多大希望。

We all hope for an improvement in the weather.

我们都希望天气好转。

常用短语:

hope for the best不丧失希望

hope against hope仍抱一线希望

in the hope of期待着