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I know about a dozen people voluntarily restricting
我知道很多人控制
their foods so that they're
他们的饮食 因此他们
hungry during the day in the hopes that that will
在能够延寿的希望中
extend their life span,
忍受饥饿
but you have to be hungry for this to work.
而且你不得不饿着工作
Well, calorie restriction means you need to cut your calories
好的 控制卡路里意味着你需要减少
by about 30 % from what you would normally eat,
你平时摄入的百分之三十的卡路里
and I tried it for about a week and it meant eating baby food
我试了一周 就是吃婴儿食物
and just a few vegetables and
和一些蔬菜
I felt hungry all the time, and I thought if
我总是感到饿 我想假如
this is going to be my life
我的生活像这样过100年
for the next hundred years, I don't want it.
那么这不会是我想要的
Professor David Sinclair wanted
大卫·辛克莱尔教授想
to understand how calorie restriction worked,
搞清控制卡路里摄入的原理
and see if he could create its effects without the effort.
看看他能否让使其自行起作用
So far, trying to make sense of
至今 他仍在研究酵母
the ageing process, he'd been working with yeast.
以试着了解衰老过程
The organism that I'm particularly excited about are yeast cells.
令我特别兴奋的组织就是酵母细胞
These are yeasts that you put in your bread and your beer,
就是你们放进面包啤酒里的酵母
but actually they have a life span of about a week
但实际上它们的寿命只有一周左右
and the goal about fifteen years ago was
15年前的目标是
to find out why do they age, and what can we do about it?
找出它们衰老的原因 我们又能为其做什么

重点解释

So far, trying to make sense of the ageing process, he'd been working with yeast.至今，他仍在研究酵母以试着了解衰老过程

so far:迄今为止；到某个程

It's the hottest day I've had so far.

这是迄今为止我经历的最热的一天。

I can help you in so far as I can.

我会尽力去帮助你的。

make sense of:懂得； 了解 ... 的意义

Can you make sense of what I say?

你能领会我说的意思吗？

the goal about fifteen years ago was to find out why do they age, and what can we do about it?15年前的目标是找出它们衰老的原因，我们又能为其做什么

find out:发现；找出来；揭发

I must find out which of them was in the right.

我一定要搞清楚他们当中谁有理。

He was at pains to find out the truth.

他尽力了解事实真相。