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Coming up to Maryhill.
來到了Maryhill。
This is the north of Glasgow now and this was where my mum and dad
這是格拉斯哥的北部，這是我父母親
spent the early years of their married life in a place called Hopehill Road.
度過他們結(jié)婚后早幾年生活的地方，住在Hopehill路上。
They lived in a single end,
他們住的是個(gè)一室戶，
which, which means just the one room for to eat, sleep and cook and...
就是說只有一個(gè)房間，吃，睡，燒什么的都在一間。
There was my mum and dad, my brother and my sister,
有我的爸爸媽媽，兄弟姐妹，
myself and a gran that I don't remember,
我，還有我已經(jīng)記不得了的奶奶，
all living in the one room, all sharing beds except me. I was in the pram.
都住在一個(gè)房間里，除我以外，共用一張床。我睡在嬰兒車?yán)铩?/p>
Sort of glad I don't remember it,
那種高興，我已經(jīng)記不得了，
but this is it - this is Hopehill Road - and didnae look like this as far as I know.
這就是，就是Hopehill路，不是我熟知的樣子。
In the early years of the 20th century,
在20世紀(jì)早期，
Glasgow underwent a period of rapid industrialisation.
格拉斯哥經(jīng)歷了一個(gè)快速工業(yè)化時(shí)期。
Tenements were thrown up to house the expanding population.
大量建房以滿足不斷增加的人口居住。
In the area where Moira and Graham lived as children,
在Moira和Graham小時(shí)候居住的地方，
there were a million people living in just a few square miles.
只有幾平方英里就居住了100萬人。
In Glasgow in the middle of the last century,
上世紀(jì)中期的格拉斯哥，
we had wave after wave of childhood infections -
發(fā)生一波又一波兒童傳染病，
scarlet fever, typhoid - which were rife throughout the city,
猩紅熱，傷寒，充斥了整座城市，
and overcrowding was very common and in those conditions, of course,
擁擠現(xiàn)象很普遍，當(dāng)然在這種條件下，
infections passed from person to person very quickly.
人與人之間的傳染非常快。
In order to survive their conditions,
為了在這種條件下生存，
the people living in the tenements at the time
生活在那時(shí)房子里的人
developed heightened immune defences to combat infection,
產(chǎn)生出了高免疫的抗體來對(duì)抗傳染，
a condition known as inflammatory response.
這種情形稱為炎癥反應(yīng)。
So if you have a tendency towards a high inflammatory response,
因此一旦有了高炎癥反應(yīng)，
then when childhood infections come,
那么當(dāng)兒童傳染病出現(xiàn)的時(shí)候，
you tend to survive long enough to have children yourself,
就可以比自己的孩子幸免更長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間，
so people with that tendency will be increased in the population.
因此人們有著增加人口的傾向。
