So he's in a persistent vegetative state.

所以他现在是处于植物人的状态。

Vincent Lambert has been in a vegetative state since a motorcycle accident in 2008.

自2008年摩托车事故以来，文森特·兰伯特一直处于植物人状态。

Vincent Lambert has been in a vegetative state since 2008.

樊尚·朗贝尔自2008年起就一直处于植物人状态。

But once the sun goes down, they go into a vegetative state.

但是太阳落山之后，他们就进入了植物人状态。

Yeah, his chart says he fell into a persistent vegetative state 16 years ago.

是的，他的病历写着他在16年前成为永久的植物人。

While napenthes hang in mid-air, another vegetative predator crawls on land.

猪笼草悬在半空，另一位杀手伏在地表。

To fill that gap Kurt Gray of the University of Maryland, and Annie Knickman and Dan Wegner of Harvard University, conducted an experiment designed to ascertain just how people perceive those in a persistent vegetative state.

为了填补这个领域的空白，马里兰州大学的库尔特? 雷和哈佛大学的丹? 魏纳进行了一个实验，旨在确定人们如何认知植物人。

So these are things that are not unpleasant but that have a strong kind of vegetative taste I suppose you could say. So bitter, bitter. So in an example sentence. Many people enjoy drinking very bitter beers these days.

这些东西并不难吃，但有一种强烈的植物的味道，我想你可以说。太苦了。举个例子。现在很多人喜欢喝很苦的啤酒。

Although we all enjoy swaths of land filled with green grass, plants and trees, vegetative growth can wreak havoc on the strength of a railway track.

虽然我们都喜欢长着绿色的草地、植物和树木的土地，但营养生长可能会对铁路轨道的强度造成严重破坏。

So far we've only talked about vegetative plant organs, which refers to a type of organ that contributes to a plant's overall growth and structure.

到目前为止，我们只讨论了植物的营养器官，它指的是一种有助于植物整体生长和结构的器官。

Land that his proclamation said was home to, quote, many different vegetative communities and numerous types of endemic plants and their pollinators.

他在公告中称这片土地是“多种不同植物种群和无数种当地植物及其传粉者”的家园。

Police in Arizona have arrested a nurse after a patient in a long-term vegetative state at a care facility gave birth.

亚利桑那州警方逮捕了一名护士，因为一名长期处于植物状态的病人生了孩子。

Brain death was different than a coma or vegetative state, where there are levels of consciousness and brain function.

脑死亡与昏迷或植物人状态不同，后者有一定程度的意识和大脑功能。

This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.

有可能这是一种持续的植物人状态基本上不可能再恢复意识了。

A truffle's mycelium, the vegetative, root-like structure of the fungus, wraps itself around the tree roots and swaps water and nutrients for sugars.

松露的菌丝体，即真菌的，根状营养结构缠绕在树根上，用水和养分换取糖分。

Once again, the vegetative David was seen to have less mind than the David who had “passed away”.

这次，植物人大卫的心智活动仍然被认为少于“去世”的大卫。

In the view of the average New Yorker or New Englander, the vegetative David was more dead than the version who was dead.

在纽约和新英兰的普通市民眼中，变成植物人的大卫比死去的大卫“死”得更彻底。

Modern medicine, however, has created a third option, the persistent vegetative state.

然而，现代医学技术创造了第三个选项--永久性植物人状态。

It’s when the food is available. That is when it’s not covered in snow and there is no frost covering the grass and, umm, vegetative parts of a plant’s herbs and the flowers the marmots like to eat.

这是食物可用的时候。那是当它没有被雪覆盖并且没有霜覆盖草地时，嗯，植物草药的营养部分和土拨鼠喜欢吃的花。

The latter group includes cases such as when the subject is in a persistent vegetative state, PVS, in which patients in a coma are awake and breathing independently, but have apparently lost all higher brain functions.

后者包括一些案例，如当研究对象处于持续性植物状态（PVS）时，患者虽处于昏迷状态但能自主清醒并呼吸，然而明显丧失了所有高级脑功能。