每天一小段英语（49）

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The major factor that determines the length of the blue segment is how closely the atomic structure of your vitrified brain resembles the original atomic structure of your brain when it was living and healthy.
蓝条长度主要取决于玻璃化后的大脑原子结构是否和你活着，健康的时候相似。

Let’s note that I said “brain,” not “body,” because what we mostly care about here is the brain. Cryonicists, like many of us, believe that who you are comes down to your brain. If, in the future, your identical current brain lived on top of a synthetic body and your exact memories and personality were fully intact, cryonicists would be satisfied that you “survived.” That’s why some don’t even bother vitrifying their body.
①是大脑而不是身体因为我们更关心大脑。冷冻专家和我们一样认为大脑就是你。如果在未来你原本的大脑安在合成身体上，你的记忆和个性还完整，冷冻专家认为你是成功复活的。所以有的人不冻身体。

The second thing to note is that scientists believe that short-term memory is contained in brain activity—in the electricity going through your brain—while your long-term memory, your personality, your knowledge, and everything else that makes you “you” is contained in the brain’s structure—i.e. the particular arrangement of atoms that make up your brain.
②科学家认为短期记忆在大脑电信号活动中，长期记忆、性格、知识和其他的你的特征存在于大脑结构中，也就是说特定的原子排列组成你的大脑。

Any electrical activity in your brain before legal death will be lost during vitrification, so you’d be revived without the short-term memory of the end of your pre-vitrified life. But what vitrification can preserve is the structure of your brain, which conveniently, is all we care about.
你法定死之前脑电活动在玻璃化时会失去前一段时间的短期记忆。但是玻璃化保存的是你的大脑结构，也是我们都关心的。

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每日一词
synthetic
adj. 综合的；合成的，人造的
n. 合成物

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come down to
归根结底，可归结为；实质上是

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