nausea, throwing up and so on.

恶心呕吐等等
This has traditionally been viewed as just a breakdown in the system--

一般这会被认为是系统失调
too much hormones, everything's askew;

太多的荷尔蒙什么都不正常了
women get nauseous.

所以女性会感觉恶心
Margie Profet suggested an alternative

玛姬·普罗费则提出了不同的见解
and this won her the MacArthur Genius Award.

这让她获得了麦克阿瑟天才奖
And this was the claim that maybe pregnancy sickness

她的理论是说也许怀孕期间的晨吐反应
is not an accident; rather, it's designed,

不是一个偶然事件而是设计出来的
it has a biological purpose.

它是有生物目的性的
In particular, as the baby develops in the uterus,

具体的来说婴儿在子宫内发育的时候
it is vulnerable to various

对各种有害或致畸物质
sorts of poisons or teratogens.

没有什么抵抗力