冷冻

So, a cryonics contract is far short of a survival guarantee.

所以，一个冷冻复苏合同对生存保障来说仍然远远不够。

Their discovery gave new hope to the cryonics movement, which is trying to find ways to preserve human beings so they can be revived in the future.

他们的发现给人体冷冻的研究和发展带来了新的希望。该研究正在努力寻找将人体保存起来的方法，以便将来复活。

What was I thinking of, picking a [url=http://dev.csdn.net/#Note0059]wacky subject like cryonics?

我当初到底是怎么想的——竟然挑了一个人体冷冻术这样的古怪话题？

Many experts in molecular nanotechnology believe that in its mature stage nanotechnology will enable the revival of cryonics patients.

许多专家相信，成熟阶段的分子纳米技术将能够复苏冷冻承受者。

But a pioneering field called cryonics could give some people two lives.

但是一个被称作人体冷冻学的新领域将会让某些人死而复生。

Only half of the complete cryonics procedure can be scrutinized today; the other half cannot be performed until the future.

当前只有一半的完整人体冷冻学程序可以详细检查，另一半可能要到未来才能进行。

Realizing that straight freezing isn't the best option, today's scientists have made significant advances in cryonics.

意识到直接冰冻处理并非是最好的选择，现在科学家已经在冷冻方法上取得进步。

But, the brochure warns, This scenario does not prove that cryonics can or will succeed.

但是，手册警告说："上述情景并不证明人体冷冻能够或者必定成功，但是它也许有助于对这一可能性展开讨论。"

If and when the medical technology allows, the winner, preserved at The Cryonics Institute of Michigan in the United States, will be revived to continue their life.

这也正是我们想传达给人们的关于杂志自身的讯息。到医疗技术条件允许的时候，被保存在美国密歇根人体冷冻学院的获奖者将被复苏过来继续生活。

This might sound like an improbable treatment, but the purpose of cryonics is to preserve the structure of life rather than the processes of life, because the life processes can in principle be re-started as long as the information encoded in the structural properties of the body, in particular the brain, are sufficiently preserved.

这可能听起来像一个难以置信的待遇，但人体冷冻学的目的是为了维护生命的结构而不是生命的过程，因为生命的过程在原则上可以重新开始，只要机体，尤其是大脑内的信息编码在结构性能上得到足够的保护。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。