访谈录 Interview 2007-09-21&09-23, 老少配能让人长寿?

You're gonna love this next story, for the good of mankind who would have thought that guys like Hugh Hefner(lao ban of playboy), and Michael Douglas are helping¹ to preserve the human race. It’s all because they are into girls who are much younger than they are, women, we should say. A new study out suggested that older guys if they continue to hook up with the younger women, that the lifespan ceiling, as it's called for both sexes, will actually rise over time. Here now, Hackensack University Medical Center to share the good news. This is Dr. Jake Deutsch. Ok, so the idea being that the older guys with the younger women means we are all gonna live longer eventually, is that the headline?

That's the idea(How in the world does that work?) well I think it’s allowing people that are able to live longer because they've overcome natural selection for whether it is a heart attack or a stroke, or then reproducing at a late year age, and making children that then themselves live longer. So it'll translate to a longer lifespan throughout the population.

So basically what your messages to women is don’t be upset. When your husband runs off with the younger woman coz it's ultimately good for women too? How does that work?(It can be good. yeah, and good for mankind, absolutely) In that, why, er, coz this is probably gonna seem like a dumb question to a lot of people out there but I am asking anybody . Anyway, why is there this match-up, why is there…you know is there, is it a psychological more than we often..cause we’ve seen it throughout history of older guys (Right!) and younger girls. Is there an explanation for it?

Well, for whatever reason men are more likely to marry than women and as it turns out then there is other things, I think in terms of financial situations, companionship, other factors that play into that. And I think that genetic² selection has also programmed men to want to reproduce and if they are able to, that translates into having children and if it's at an older age, so be it.

So it’s all about the reproduction. What about, we are looking at Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, an example of kind of this May-December idea. But what else happens when it is the reverse? Did, was that figured into the study at all, the idea of the Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's simple world.

Well, they have looked at the women's reproduction. And actually women that are able to rear their children and grandchildren. It’s been found that their children lived longer. Whether it's because they have the genetics to pass long or they are just physically³ there in order to raise them, that’s resulted in people that live longer. So yes they have looked at it but this is a new twist with looking at the men.

Alright, Dr. Jack⁴ Deutsch, Jake Deutsch, I’m sorry I should say from Hackensack University Medical Center. That’s a good topic talked about today, right?(Yeah) Now I'll have a stop. Good to see you , Doctor, thank you!

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 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。

3 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

4 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。