纪录片《长生不老》 36白发很粗糙

Even if you have spectacular genes¹,

尽管你有特殊的基因

eventually we expect to see and feel the signs of age.

我们仍能感受到年龄的变化

Our pigment² and skin cells

我们的色素和皮肤的细胞

simply can't replace themselves as well as they did.

不能像以前一样再生

We'll start to look older.

我们开始显得老了

I would say the wrinkles are creeping in.

皱纹悄悄浮现

That's to be expected.

这是预料中的事

Being in the fresh air and the wind,

在清新的空气和风中

I am going to be a prune³.

我将变得多余

It's obvious in between dyeing stages that it's,

在染发的时候也会很明显

it's fairly grey now and the

现在头发有点灰白

grey hair is quite different. It's a lot coarser.

灰白的头发不同于黑发 会更粗糙

Other parts of the body may

身体的其他器官

not repair themselves as well as they did.

不能像以前一样自我修复

I can't dance six dances in a row any more...

我再也不能连跳6支舞了

without stopping. It's... Just too old.

因为已经老了

I've realised that my knee is never going to be right again.

我意识到膝盖不再好用

Eyes, yeah, that was a shock.

吃惊的是眼睛

Being tireder, less energy.

变得越来越累和无力

The standing⁴ joke is always that

你的健忘常常会成为

you forget things,

别人的笑柄

and that's true. You do.

但这是事实

We might start to feel more dependent.

我们变得更有依赖心理

1 genes   

n.基因( gene的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因，所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪

2 pigment   

n.天然色素，干粉颜料

参考例句：

• The Romans used natural pigments on their fabrics and walls.古罗马人在织物和墙壁上使用天然颜料。
• Who thought he might know what the skin pigment phenomenon meant.他自认为可能知道皮肤色素出现这种现象到底是怎么回事。

3 prune   

n.酶干；vt.修剪，砍掉，削减；vi.删除

参考例句：

• Will you prune away the unnecessary adjectives in the passage?把这段文字中不必要的形容词删去好吗？
• It is our job to prune the side branches of these trees.我们的工作就是修剪这些树的侧枝。

4 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。