Immortality——No longer just a fantasy?_BEC初级作文

Immortality——No longer just a fantasy?

例：But the increase in obesity has had a disproportionate impact on Americans' health and longevity.肥胖人群的增加对美国人的平均健康和寿命产生冲击。

小注2：around the corner，字面意思是“拐过角就到”，实际意思是“非常近了”“快到来了”，可以指时间也可以指距离。

例：The christmas is around the corner.圣诞将至。

There is also the possibility that human consciousness can achieve immortality in a non-physical form. Most religions include some form of the belief that humans were created as immortals in the first place. The Bible's tale of the fall of Adam and Eve is a classic example. After they ate the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden, God punished them by making them mortaland able to experience physical death.

However, most Christians believe that a conscious and immortal soul survives the death of the body.

In some religions, humans were created as mortals and then tried to achieve immortality. In Mesopotamian literature, Gilgamesh, the son of a human king and a goddess, was haunted by the thought of his own mortality after his best friend Enkidu died. A human named Utnapishtim, who had been made immortal by the gods, promised Gilgamesh immortality if he could stay awake for an entire week. Gilgamesh fell asleep, and Utnapishtim gave him a rejuvenating plant, but the plant was ultimatelyeaten by a snake, ending Gilgamesh's chance of immortality.