That would be a Sisyphean task: as Tobias Marschall, a computational geneticist at Heinrich Heine University, noted, every baby is born with dozens of mutations possessed by neither of its parents.

这将是一项做不完的任务: 正如海因里希·海涅大学的计算遗传学家托比亚斯·马歇尔所指出的那样，每个婴儿出生时都带有父母双方都没有的数十种突变。

But it is really about the unwieldy needs and desires of middle age, " with death looming on one side, disappointment on the other, and nothing but a Sisyphean wheel of activities supporting the structure of one's present" .

但它真正讲述的是中年人难以驾驭的需求和欲望，“一方面是死亡， 另一方面是失望，除了支持一个人当下结构的西西弗斯式活动之外什么都没有” 。