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。

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

而，现代医学技术创造了三个选项--永久性植物人状态。

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。

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。

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。

More extensive damage to the network can sometimes lead to a vegetative state, with no sign of consciousness.

如果人的神经网损伤范围更大，则可能变成植物人，没有任何意识。

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被认为少于“去世”的大卫。

So he's in a persistent vegetative state.

所以他现在是处于植物人的状态。

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。

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。

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

在纽约和新英格兰的普通市民眼中，变成植物人的大卫比死去的大卫“死”得更彻底。

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? 格雷和哈佛大学的丹? 魏格纳进行了一个实验，旨在确定人们如何认知植物人。