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

瓢虫处于半麻痹态，可能源自黄蜂造成病毒感染。

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种麻痹态。 但如果出现睡眠麻痹，即使人清醒了，种麻痹态还不会消失。

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

正是种激励力量被绝望态所麻痹。

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

为什么种麻痹和游离态会降临到我们从前非常活跃头脑中？

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梦，阶段被称为快速眼动睡眠，此时他们身体处于麻痹态，但他们眼睛可以移动。

Then came the struggle, the desperate struggle of his brain, his nerves, his will against that hideous, paralyzing torpor, the struggle of a dying man against death, the struggle of life against extinction.

然后是挣扎， 他大脑、他神经、他意志与那可怕、麻痹麻木态进行着绝望斗争， 个垂死人与死亡斗争， 生命与灭绝斗争。

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动态神经细胞病变所折磨，是种将身体蹂躏成麻痹态病：感觉像困兽般被囚禁在个不断缩小牢笼中，他坦言到。