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Anybody here has been to Iceland? No? Okay, great
有人去過冰島嗎？沒有嗎？很好
So Iceland unfortunately these days, is sort of famous for a volcano that
很不幸，最近談到冰島，人們總想到火山爆發(fā)，
really slowed down Europe for a week and also for the banks which have really imploded
延誤歐洲一周，以及當(dāng)?shù)亟鹑隗w系的崩潰
And I have to say that I wrote my chapter and spent all my time in Iceland before they had had that financial meltdown
首先申明，我到冰島去的時(shí)候，他們還沒出現(xiàn)金融危機(jī)
So I'm not really sure what the situation is right now
后來的情況怎樣我不很清楚
But Iceland is so fascinating because
冰島是個(gè)奇妙的國度
here they are, this northernmost country where you can't really grow terribly much
這就是，那里的北國風(fēng)光不適合耕種
And yet they have some of the highest rates of longevity on Earth
但卻是地球上最長壽的地區(qū)之一
that are truly documented in the birth certificate
而且這里的人都有出生證明
It's not a bunch of people who are 40, who are claiming that they're 110
不像有些地方40歲的人聲稱自己110歲
They really, we know that they are quite old there
這里的人確實(shí)很長壽
And whenever I travel to a new country, I do what I call the cemetery tests
每當(dāng)我到一個(gè)國家，我都會(huì)光顧墓地
Okay, I walk down one row in the cemetery and I see how many tombstones I can find of people who live over 100 and I count them up
我會(huì)看墓碑上的記述，數(shù)多少人活到了100歲以上
Well in Iceland, I had to go down like a quarter of a row to find
在冰島，每1/4行就有一個(gè)人超過100歲
It was amazing, way more than anywhere else I've been
很驚人，人數(shù)比我去過的所有地方都多
I think that everybody lives beyond 100 in Iceland
似乎每個(gè)人都能活到100歲
What's really interesting is you might say it's genetics
你也許會(huì)說這是基因所致
But they did a sister study with Icelanders who emigrated to Canada
但研究者做過分居冰島和加拿大的姐妹研究
and all this same sisters start to health problems and die young and so on
移居加拿大的總是健康問題嚴(yán)重，死得較早
So we know that it's not just protective genes
所以，這不只是因?yàn)楸＝』?/div>
So this is another thing about Iceland. It's really interesting
關(guān)于冰島還有一點(diǎn)很有趣
