Teenage Optimism

見賢思齊，嗯，多用網路做點建設性的搜尋吧。

And that's because when we're looking for pancreatic cancer, we're looking at your bloodstream, which is already abundant in all these tons and tons of protein, and you're looking for this miniscule difference in this tiny amount of protein. Just this one protein. That's next to impossible. However, undeterred due to my teenage optimism -- I went online to a teenager's two best friends, Google and Wikipedia.

• next to impossible = almost impossible, slim chance
• teenage optimism  翻譯成「初生之犢不畏虎」相當貼切呀

And so I'm just plugging and chugging through this gargantuan task, and finally, on the 4,000th try, when I'm close to losing my sanity, I find the protein. And the name of the protein I'd located was called mesothelin, and it's just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill type protein, unless, of course, you have pancreatic, ovarian or lung cancer, in which case it's found at these very high levels in your bloodstream. 

• a gargantuan task = an enormous task
• lose one's sanity = lose one's mind, go crazy
• run-of-the-mill = ordinary