Then doctors diagnosed a hopeless senility or hardening of the arteries.

随后医生诊断出她患有不可治愈的衰老症或是动脉硬化。

Critics who try to rise above this intellectual hardening of the arteries usually meet with limited success.

有些批评家试图冲破这种知识分子圈的动脉硬化，但通常只能取得有限的成就。

Dr Hazen thinks that when it is metabolised by gut bacteria, a chain of events begins that results in atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).

Hazen博士认为，它被肠道细菌代谢时，一系列事件相继发生，最终导致动脉粥样硬化。