Just under a year ago, he appeared at a public lecture in a wheelchair to announce that he was suffering from a variant of motor-neurone disease, in which the body succumbs to inexorable paralysis: like being imprisoned in a shrinking cell, he said.

就在一年前，他出现在公共演讲庭，坐在轮椅上告诉别人，自己现如今正被不同种类的经细胞病变所折磨，这是一种将身体蹂躏成麻痹状的病：感觉像困兽般被囚禁在一个不断缩小的牢笼，他坦言到。

It's now semi-paralyzed, possibly due to a viral infection the wasp gave it.

瓢虫处于半麻痹状，可能源自黄蜂造成的病毒感染。

It can be easy to panic: why should such a paralysed and detached mood have descended on our formerly lively minds?

为什么这样一种麻痹和游离的状会降临到我们从前非常活跃的头脑？

The scientists knew that people typically have lucid dreams during the stage of deep sleep, known as rem sleep, when their bodies are paralyzed, but their eyes can move.

科学家们知道，人们在深度睡眠阶段通常会做清晰的梦，这一阶段被称为快速眼睡眠，此时他们的身体处于麻痹状，但他们的眼睛可以移。

Your brain usually turns this paralysis off before you wake up. But in sleep paralysis, you wake up while it's still happening.

大脑通常会在你醒来之前叫停这种麻痹状。 但如果出现睡眠麻痹，即使人清醒了，这种麻痹状还不会消失。

So you're shut down into this motor paralysis incarceration, rightly so.

因此，你进入了这种运麻痹的禁锢状，这是理所当然的。

And so that's because when you're in REM sleep, your body paralyzed itself.

这是因为当你处于快速眼睡眠时，身体会自行进入麻痹状。

It certainly is a virtuous cycle, and that's where I think the paralysis of anxiety and concern blocks that from happening.

这确实是一个良性的循环，而我认为焦虑和担忧的麻痹状阻碍了这一过程的发生。

It is this invaluable force that is paralyzed by a condition of hopelessness.

正是这种宝贵的激励力量被绝望状所麻痹。