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1、一个我们曾经讳莫如深的健康杀手 2015-01-0315:09:58
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3、字号 订阅My maternal 母亲的，母系的 grandmother lives in my memory as two distinct明显的 images形象 . Two distinct people, really.The first: She’s coming off a plane, and she’s in a pillbox药丸盒，小屋 hat, a tailored 定做的 suit and white gloves.手套 That was how she dre
4、ssed to fly, back in the days当时的人们 when people actually dressed to fly. 当时的人们会为了乘坐飞机而打扮一番 We’d meet her at the airport, then drive home in a car suffused充满 with Jungle丛林 Gardenia, which wasn’t just her scent气味 . It was her armor装甲 and ecosystem生态系统 , the way she told the world and reassured使得安心，使
5、得消除疑虑 herself that she was a proper lady.他是一个名副其实的淑女 The second image: She’s on the couch长沙发 in our TV room. Her blouse宽松的上衣 has come undone. So have her slacks放松，懈怠 , which are wrinkled 有皱纹的 and smudged弄脏的 . She’s spilling泄露 out of everything and she’s oblivious, a dazed茫然的 , haunted受到困扰的 look
6、 in her eyes. If she’s wearing any Jungle Gardenia, I no longer smell it.These images are separated not just by years but by illness. My grandmother, Kathryn OwenFrier, developed患有某种疾病 Alzheimer’s阿尔茨海默氏症（老年痴呆）. It turned a fastidious挑剔的，苛求的，难以取悦的 woman with a fiendish恶魔似的，残忍的 talent for crosswor
7、ds纵横字谜 into a slovenly散漫的，不整洁的 one who couldn’t figure out a stoplight红色尾灯 . I remember how mortified窘迫的，受屈辱的 I felt for her我记得自己曾今为他感觉到过羞愧 , how quickly I turned my eyes away我迅速转移目光 . And I remember how awful I felt for having that reaction.She died more than a quarter century 25年 ago. For a lo
8、ng time afterward, I rejected any impulse冲动，刺激 to write about the way she went, worried that I’d somehow be dishonoring 使蒙羞 her.我担心自己可能会让他蒙羞 But the world is different now. Much of the unwarranted无根据的，无保障的 shame surrounding Alzheimer’s has lifted.对于这种疾病不当的羞耻感，在很大程度上已经消散 People are examining it w
9、ith a new candor 坦白，直率 and empathy.同感，移情If most Oscar handicappers裁判人员 are correct, the next Best Actress statuette 小雕像 will go to JulianneMoore for her heartbreaking work as a university professor battlin
