prion, prime, proto, generative,degenerative, generativity

Near the end of the book, Fonda promotes "generativity"—the nurturing of the younger generation, to enrich the third act. Fonda has manifested this by founding the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.

拍《金池塘》的時候，我跟凱薩琳赫本建立了非常深厚的友誼。老年學專家指出，想讓自己老得健康快樂，有個重要條件，就是要具備所謂的「代際關懷」（generativity   hc按：一般指有生產能力、有活力、生生不息的；此處指老年人要用照顧年輕一代，以豐富自己的人生最後一慕，第三幕---60歲起......）。
這是知名心理學家艾瑞克森發明的術語，意思是發揮做為長輩的角色，照顧並關心下一代的成長。研究已經證明，具備這種關懷的人，往往老得比較健康。 而對我來說，當年的凱薩琳赫本就是一個關懷後進的長輩，對我特別照顧，更傳給我許多人生智慧。

一九九七年十二月，美國加州大學舊金山分校的普魯希納（Stanley Prusiner）教授來到瑞典的斯德哥爾摩，從瑞典國王手中接過他口中所謂的「大獎」。普魯希納研究普利子（prion）已有二十五年，他最大的成就， 是發現造成牛海綿狀腦病（俗稱「狂牛病」）、庫賈氏症以及羊搔癢病的傳染病原普利子，並不是什麼病毒或是細菌，而是不具生命的蛋白質。蛋白質的英文 protein，指的是「主要」（prime）以及「原始」（proto）的物質。有位研究普利子的科學家在一部紀錄片裡對採訪者說：「這個東西幾乎可永 存不朽。」

generative

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Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɛn(ə)rətɪv

 

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adjective

• 1Relating to or capable of production or reproduction: the female reproductive system and its generative cycles
  

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• 2Denoting an approach to any field of linguistics that involves applying a finite set of rules to linguistic input in order to produce all and only the well-formed items of a language: generative phonology
  

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generativity

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• I hope I need not say that special respect for generativity does not require stigmatizing the non-generative.
• After that perhaps twenty-year time period, a woman emerges fully into her new life of deeper uniqueness, generativity, nurturance, and creativity.
• If you feel that kind of generativity, you'll never be bored with life.
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Origin

late Middle English: from late Latin generativus, from generare 'beget' (see generate).

pri·on (prē'ŏn) n.
A microscopic protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid, thought to be the infectious agent responsible for scrapie and certain other degenerative diseases of the nervous system.

[PR(OTEINACEOUS) + I(NFECTIOUS) + -ON¹.]