两个地方问一下？谢谢

We wish to thank the many people who have helped with the preparation of the book at Elsevier and our colleagues who have assisted our acquisition of knowledge in subjects not so close to our own areas of expertise. We are indebted to Professor Peter Slinger for his kind words in the Foreword and would like to thank Drs B. Oliver, J. Black, K. McKay and P . Johnson for permission to use the images in Figure 28.3. Last, but by no means least, we thank our families for their continuing encouragement and for tolerating preoccupied and reclusive parents/spouses for so long. AL ’s daughter Jenny, when aged 5, often enquired about his activities in the study, until one evening she nicely summarized the years of work by confidently stating that ‘if you don’t breathe, you die’. So what were the other 423 pages about?

Last, but by no means least 是不是等于 Last but not least最后，但并非最不重要的是？

preoccupied and reclusive怎么理解？专注于这项工作并对其他忽视？

我们要感谢在Elsevier帮助编写本书的许多人及那些帮助我们在不那么接近我们自己专业领域的学科获得知识的同事。我们感谢Peter Slinger教授在前言中对我们的肯定，也要感谢Drs B. Oliver, J. Black, K. McKay和P. Johnson允许使用图 28.3中的图像。最后，但并非最不重要的是，感谢我们的家人一路给予的鼓励，感激我们的父母和爱人对我们长期专注于这项工作并对其忽视的容忍。AL的女儿Jenny在5岁时，经常询问AL在书房里的研究工作，直到某天晚上，她很好地对AL多年工作进行了总结，自信地说：“如果你不呼吸，你就会死。”。那么其他423页又讲了些什么呢？