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Alexander Fleming.A Scottish army doctor, commended for bravery.
亚历山大·弗莱明 一位苏格兰军医 因骁勇而被表彰
Neither surgeon nor medic, but a new kind of doctor:A bacteriologist.
他既非外科医生也非救护人员 而是新型医者 一名细菌学家
On a quest to treat not the symptoms of a disease,but its root cause.
他并不是去探求疾病的症状 而是究其根源
It was through his absolutely obsessive need to understand
他醉心于实验室里的研究
what was happening in his laboratory,
渴望探索与发现
that he wandered into the greatest advance ever,among human scientists.
人类科学史上最伟大的发明
Fleming sees thousands die needlessly not from bullets and shrapnel,
弗莱明亲眼见到无数无辜人死去 并非死于子弹和榴弹
but from wounds infected by bacteria.
而是因感染细菌而亡
100 trillion bacteria inhabit the human body,
一百兆个细菌寄生在人体内
ten times the number of human cells.
是人类细胞的十倍之多
Micro organisms that feed on living tissue.
微生物寄宿于活体组织之上
Most are harmless,but a few species release toxins
多数是无害的 不过有些细菌会释放毒素
that cripple the immune system and spread disease.
削弱人体免疫系统 从而传播疾病
Bacteria have killed more people than all the wars in history combined.
因细菌感染而死的人要比历史上 所有因战争而亡的人数还要多
