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Hello, darling.
你好啊 親愛的
The air can't reach the larynx anymore.
氣流無法到達喉嚨
That's why he can't talk.
所以他說不了話
He says, "Bit of a bugger."
他說 "有點麻煩"
You inhale the polio virus from droplets in the air.
小兒麻痹癥病毒 通過空氣飛沫傳播
The same way you catch a cold.
就像感冒傳染一樣
It passes into the blood stream,
病毒會通過血液
into the central nervous system,
進入中樞神經系統
and attacks a big group of cells in the spinal cord.
對脊髓細胞發起猛烈的攻擊
The result is you become like a rag doll.
結果人就成了個破布娃娃
You can't move anything from the neck down.
頸部以下都不能動了
Can't even breathe for yourself.
甚至無法自主呼吸
Right, and, um, how long will he be like this?
好吧 那這種狀況還要持續多久
The paralysis is irreversible.
癱瘓是不可逆轉的
A good respiration system will maintain life for a while.
呼吸機能在一段時間內延續他的生命
We're talking a matter of months.
但也只是幾個月
