Shinya Yamanaka: The Worst Surgeon
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#1
Young Shinya Yamanaka dreamed of healing people.
年輕的山中伸彌夢想著治癒他人。
#2
He wanted to become an orthopedic surgeon, fixing broken bones and injuries.
他想成為一名整形外科醫生，負責修復斷骨和傷勢。
#3
With great ambition, he entered medical school in Kobe.
帶著遠大的抱負，他進入了位於神戶的醫學院。
#4
He had a clear plan for his future as a healer.
他對自己作為一名療癒者的未來有著清晰的計劃。
#5
Unfortunately, Shinya was a very clumsy surgeon.
不幸的是，伸彌是一位非常笨拙的外科醫生。
#6
Operations that should have taken thirty minutes often took him two hours.
原本應該只需要花三十分鐘的手術，卻往往花了他兩個小時。
#7
'Jamanaka,' meaning 'obstacle'.
「Jamanaka」，意思是「障礙物」。
#8
He felt discouraged and like a complete failure in the operating room.
他在手術室裡感到灰心喪志，覺得自己徹底失敗。
#9
Instead of giving up entirely, Shinya decided to switch to research.
伸彌並沒有完全放棄，而是決定轉向研究領域。
#10
He moved to the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco to pursue this new path.
他搬到了舊金山的格萊斯頓研究所，以追求這條新的道路。
#11
However, his early experiments failed one after another, causing him to become depressed.
然而，他早期的實驗接連失敗，導致他變得很沮喪。
#12
The change of direction did not immediately bring success.
方向的改變並沒有立即帶來成功。
#13
Returning to Japan, Shinya began studying stem cells.
回到日本後，山中伸彌開始研究幹細胞。
#14
He asked a question that many scientists considered impossible to answer.
他提出了一個許多科學家認為不可能回答的問題。
#15
Could you turn an ordinary adult cell back into a stem cell?
你能將一個普通的成年細胞變回幹細胞嗎？
#16
Almost everyone believed the answer was a definitive no.
幾乎每個人都相信答案是肯定的否定。