大学英语综合教程3原文
1. 大学英语综合教程3课文原文
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2. 求全新版大学英语综合教程3unit 8 human cloning:a scientist's story 这篇文章的原文!!!
Human Cloning: A Scientist's Story
Dr. Samuel Wood via interview
I was extremely close with my
mother all my life. She was a brilliant ecator, writer and wonderful woman.
Sadly, she developed complications related to diabetes. When she lost her
eyesight and most of her ability to walk, it was absolutely horrifying for me.
She passed away from a fall seven or eight years ago. At her funeral, I swore
that one day I'd do something about conditions like hers.
克隆人:一位科学家的故事
塞缪尔·伍德博士采访录
我一生与母亲无比亲密。她是一位卓越的教育家、作家,是一位了不起的女士。不幸的是,她患上了糖尿病引起的并发症。当她丧失视力和大部分行走能力时,我惊恐万状。七、八年前,她摔了一跤便离开人世。在她的葬礼上,我发誓有朝一日要为她那样的疾病做点什么。
2. Years passed and I read about the work the South Koreans had done
with stem cells. In 2004 and 2005 Hwang Woo-Suk fraulently reported that he
had succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by cloning.
时间一年年过去,我读到了韩国人在干细胞研究方面所做的工作。在2004年和2005年间,黄禹锡谎称他已通过克隆技术成功地培养出人类胚胎干细胞。
3. Back then it wasn't known it was a fraud, so it was very exciting
to think that a long list of diseases could be treated.
当时人们并不知道那是造假,所以想到一长串疾病有望得到医治,人们兴奋不已。
4. I founded the stem cell research company Stemagen with another
gentleman whose father had died of ALS. We went out for drinks one night and we
started talking about our parents. We wanted to do something that would be a
legacy for them.
我与另一位先生共同创建了斯塔摩根干细胞研究公司。那位先生的父亲死于肌萎缩性(脊髓)侧索硬化。一天晚上,我们外出小酌,谈论起我们的父母。我们想做点什么,以此作为他们身后留下的遗产。
5. For Better Or Worse?
是福是祸?
6. The moment we decided to start Stemagen, I read all there was to
read about the various cloning efforts in the past. The cloned sheep Dolly in
1997 was very interesting, but at that stage people were not focusing on the
stem cell aspect of cloning; they were focusing on the reproctive
possibilities of cloning.
一决定创建斯塔摩根干细胞研究公司,我就阅读了有关以往各种克隆实验的所有资料。1997年的克隆羊多利引起了人们极大的兴趣。但在那个时候,人们关注的不是克隆技术的干细胞层面,而是其无性繁殖的可能性问题。
7. Human reproctive cloning is just simply wrong ethically from a
medical standpoint and a scientific standpoint, even ignoring any religious
issues associated with it. The reason is that the majority of reproctive
clones in other species are actually abnormal, with very high miscarriage
rates, very high stillbirth rates, fetal anomalies, death soon after birth, et
cetera.
从医学和科学的角度来看,克隆人在伦理道德上就是错误的,即便不去理会与其相关的宗教问题。其原因在于其他物种的无性繁殖个体事实上大多数都是畸形的,流产率很高,死产率很高,胎儿畸形,出生不久便夭折,等等。
8. It would just be absolutely wrong to take a human being and put
them through what may well involve significant suffering for really no good
end. Even though people could take the techniques that we've developed and
attempt to do it (or perhaps even be successful doing it), we hope that they
would not.
让人经受极有可能遭到巨大痛苦的事,却又得不到什么好的结果,那是绝对错误的。即使有人能够利用我们研发的技术,并且试图付诸实践(也许还能成功),我们还是希望他们不要那样做。
9. On the other hand,
therapeutic cloning does not involve any type of risk to human life and
actually provides tremendous potential for the relief of suffering in real
human beings who are going through some awful things.
从另一方面来说,治疗性的克隆技术不牵涉任何对人生命的威胁,还能真正为正在经受痛苦的人们提供缓解痛苦的极大的可能性。
10. I'm a pure scientist in some ways, and I know that many
different studies or findings could be used for evil. Our job as scientists is
to make the most of this technology and make it available to the greatest
number of other scientists who can help us do good things with it. There's
really no effective way for an indivial scientist to stop someone else from
using the knowledge for something they shouldn't.
在某种程度上,我是一个纯粹的科学家,可我知道种种研究或发现可能被用来做邪恶之事。作为科学家,我们的工作是充分利用这一技术,并且使之被尽可能多的其他科学家掌握,帮助我们做好事。对于科学家个人而言,其实没有什么行之有效的方法可以阻止他人将知识用在他们不该用的地方。
11. We need to be honest about the techniques that we used. They
need to be able to be replicated by other people, and so, we are providing a
roadmap. I would hope that the legislation that's in place and the great public
disapproval that would result from any attempt to clone a human would dissuade
anyone from going down that path.
我们必须诚实地说明我们所使用的技术。这些技术必须能够被他人复制,这样,我们等于提供了一张路线图。我希望适当的法规以及公众对于试图克隆人的极力反对能够劝阻任何有此企图的人走那条路。
12. What is it they say? There is no technology that hasn't been
used for some evil purpose at some point. Quite honestly I do think that
someone will attempt human reproctive cloning. I do think it's inevitable,
and it's virtually impossible to legislate that away.
他们是怎么说的?他们说没有一项技术不曾在某个时候为了某种罪恶目的而被利用过。坦诚地说,我确实认为有人会试图克隆人。我确实认为那是不可避免的事,而且实际上也不可能通过立法加以阻止。
13. Claim to Fame
出名
14. I am spoken of as the first man to "clone himself."
There are different types of cloning. At the cellular level, yes, it's true I
am the first man to clone himself. We thought a great deal about how to deal
with the issue of whose cells we should use and whether we should let the world
and the scientific community know who the first cellular clone was.
我被说成是第一个“克隆自己”的人。有不同类型的克隆。在细胞层面上讲,没错,我的确是第一个克隆自己的人。我们应该使用谁的细胞,是否应该让世人及科学界知晓谁是第一个细胞克隆体,对于如何处理上述问题我们想得很多。
15. In the end we decided
that we wanted to put a human face on cloning.
最终,我们决定要让克隆体人性化。
16. I didn't anticipate it would create the firestorm of controversy
that it's created, but I'm still glad we went down that path. We received
thousands of e-mails and phone calls from people who need help.
我没料到这样做竟会掀起如此轩然大波,但是对于我们走过的这条路,我仍感到高兴。我们从需要帮助的人们那里收到了成千上万的电子邮件和电话。
17. I think by coming forward and putting a face to it we made it
very real, and now people around the world know that cloning is here. I believe
that very soon it will be used therapeutically, so I think our purpose was
served.
我认为通过主动地让克隆体人性化,我们使克隆技术变得十分真实。现在全世界的人都知道克隆来了。我相信不久克隆技术将被用于治疗疾病,所以我认为我们的目的达到了。
18. Pure Science
纯科学
19. What happens is an informed and consenting woman donates an egg
and we remove her genetic material from the egg. Then we place a single skin
cell inside that egg.
事情是这样的:一位被告知实情并表示同意的女士捐出一个卵子。我们取出卵子中的基因材料,然后把单个皮肤细胞置入这个卵子。
20. What we're really interested in is creating disease-specific and
person-specific stem cell lines. The procere of taking cells from a person
takes no more than a minute or two. You can take some skin cells from the arm,
for example, and in one to two minutes, you can get the cells that you need to
carry out this process.
我们真正感兴趣的是建立特定疾病及特定个体的干细胞系列。从某人身上取出细胞的程序不过一两分钟的工夫。比方说,你可以从手臂提取皮肤细胞,一两分钟后,便可得到实施这一过程所需的细胞。
21. This process enables us to study the causes of specific
diseases, such as Alzheimer's Disease, ALS or Parkinson's Disease, and then
research a variety of treatments for these diseases. If the stem cell lines are
created for any given indivial and are later transplanted back into the
indivial, they will not be rejected by the indivial.
这一过程有助于我们探究诸如早老性痴呆病、肌萎缩性(脊髓)侧索硬化或者帕金森氏病之类特定疾病的起因,并着手研究治疗这些疾病的种种方法。如果干细胞系列是针对某一特定个体而培育的,然后又被移植回那个个体,它们就不会遭排异。
22. Sweet Success
甜蜜的成功
23. I always thought that when our research was successful I would
just be pleased that we had accomplished this when others had not. In reality,
it is transcendent — when you look through the microscope, you see what you may
have looked like a long time ago, at least in part.
我一直这么想,当我们的研究获得成功时,我会为我们取得了别人还未取得的成果而欣喜。事实上,这一研究成果真是妙不可言——透过显微镜,你至少部分地看到自己很久以前大概是什么模样。
24. When I looked down and saw that cloned blastocyst, it brought
tears to my eyes. I had done this for my
mother, and I realized, had she only been able to live a few years longer,
maybe we could have used this technology to help her. It was emotional to see
that potential, which she never had a chance to experience.
当我低下头看到克隆出的胚泡时,不由得泪水盈眶。我是为母亲而做这一研究的。我想,母亲只要能多活几年,我们或许就可以利用这一技术挽救她。看到存在那样一种可能,一种母亲没有机会亲身享用的可能,不禁令人感慨万千。
25. There's a big misconception out there that we decided to destroy
these embryos for some reason. There was
so much skepticism about this process because of the scientific fraud from the
past that it was critical that there be no doubt that they were clones.
我们出于某种原因决定毁掉这些克隆胚胎,对此外界有很大误解。由于以往的科学造假行为,人们对于我们的研究过程抱有诸多怀疑,所以确保它们确系克隆胚胎是至关重要的。
26. In the process of analysis, the embryos were destroyed by
necessity. In other words, to get the genetic material from inside the cells to
analyze it, you have to destroy the cell. We would have loved to have been able
to avoid destroying them.
在分析的过程中,我们必须毁掉那些胚胎。换句话说,从细胞里提取遗传物质进行分析,你只得毁坏细胞。我们多么希望能够避免毁掉它们啊。
27. Now we're working full-time on creating stem cell lines, and
people are watching with great interest.
目前我们正夜以继日地培育干细胞系列,人们也饶有兴趣地关注着这项工作的进展。
28. The Pope And The President
教皇和总统
29. There are a variety of opponents to our work.
我们的工作遭到各方人士的反对。
30. We were condemned by theVaticanand mentioned in a negative
light in President Bush's State of the Union address. In a sense it's an honor
because it shows that we're doing something significant. It's not every day
that you get condemned by theVaticanand President Bush in the same week.
罗马教廷谴责我们,布什总统的国情咨文对我们也颇有微词。在某种意义上,这是一种荣耀,因为这表明我们正做着有重大意义的事情。一周之内同时遭到罗马教廷和布什总统的谴责,这样的事可不是天天发生的。
31. There's usually no dialogue between the researchers in the
embryonic stem cell field and those who oppose it.
胚胎干细胞领域的研究人员和持反对意见的人士之间往往没有对话。
32. It doesn't make sense to me that it's such an emotional and
contentious topic. Logically, this is not life. I agree it's a potential life,
but the vast majority of embryos never become life. The majority generate,
don't implant and die. A fetus is a life. That argument makes sense to me, but
it doesn't make sense to me to look at an embryo in a lab and give it all the
rights of a human life.
这个话题如此惹人激动,并引起偌大的争议,依我看来实在大可不必。从逻辑上讲,胚胎并不是生命。我承认胚胎有可能成为生命,但是,大多数胚胎永远不会成为生命。多数胚胎生成后,并不用于移植,随即消亡。胎儿具有生命。依我之见,那个观点才合乎情理。但是,看着实验室里的胚胎,赋予它人命的一切权利,在我看来则有失偏颇。
3. 大学英语综合教程3第5课课文翻译
大学英语综合教程3第5课课文原文及翻译:
Writing Three Thank-You Letters
Alex Haley
1 It was 1943, ring World War II, and I was a young U. S. coastguardsman. My ship, the USS Murzim, had been under way for several days. Most of her holds contained thousands of cartons of canned or dried foods. The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific.
写三封感谢信
亚利克斯·黑利
那是在二战期间的1943年,我是个年轻的美国海岸警卫队队员。我们的船,美国军舰军市一号已出海多日。多数船舱装着成千上万箱罐装或风干的食品。其余的船舱装着不少五百磅重的炸弹,都小心翼翼地放在垫过的架子上。我们的目的地是南太平洋图拉吉岛上一个规模很大的基地。
2 I was one of the Murzim's several cooks and, quite the same as for folk ashore, this Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast turkey.
我是军市一号上的一个厨师,跟岸上的人一样,那个感恩节的上午,我们忙着在准备一道以烤火鸡为主的传统菜肴。
3 Well, as any cook knows, it's a lot of hard work to cook and serve a big meal, and clean up and put everything away. But finally, around sundown, we finished at last.
当厨师的都知道,要烹制一顿大餐,摆上桌,再刷洗、收拾干净,是件辛苦的事。不过,等到太阳快下山时,我们总算全都收拾停当了。
4 I decided first to go out on the Murzim's afterdeck for a breath of open air. I made my way out there, breathing in great, deep draughts while walking slowly about, still wearing my white cook's hat.
我想先去后甲板透透气。我信步走去,一边深深呼吸着空气,一边慢慢地踱着步,头上仍戴着那顶白色的厨师帽。
5 I got to thinking about Thanksgiving, of the Pilgrims, Indians, wild turkeys, pumpkins, corn on the cob, and the rest. 我开始思索起感恩节这个节日来,想着清教徒前辈移民、印第安人、野火鸡、南瓜、玉米棒等等。
6 Yet my mind seemed to be in quest of something else -- some way that I could personally apply to the close of Thanksgiving. It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from reversing the word "Thanksgiving" -- at least that suggested a verbal direction, "Giving thanks."
可我脑子里似乎还在搜索着别的事什么――某种我能够赋予这一节日以个人意义的方式。大概过了半个小时左右我才意识到,问题的关键也许在于把Thanksgiving这个字前后颠倒一下――那样一来至少文字好懂了:Giving thanks。
7 Giving thanks -- as in praying, thanking God, I thought. Yes, of course. Certainly.
表达谢意――就如在祈祷时感谢上帝那样,我暗想。对啊,是这样,当然是这样。
8 Yet my mind continued turning the idea over.
可我脑子里仍一直盘桓着这事。
9 After a while, like a dawn's brightening, a further answer did come -- that there were people to thank, people who had done so much for me that I could never possibly repay them. The embarrassing truth was I'd always just accepted what they'd done, taken all of it for granted. Not one time had I ever bothered to express to any of them so much as a simple, sincere "Thank you."
过了片刻,如同晨曦初现,一个更清晰的念头终于涌现脑际――要感谢他人,那些赐我以诸多恩惠,我根本无以回报的人们。令我深感不安的实际情形是,我向来对他们所做的一切受之泰然,认为是理所应当。我一次也没想过要对他们中的任何一位真心诚意地说一句简单的谢谢。
10 At least seven people had been particularly and lastingly helpful to me. I realized, swallowing hard, that about half of them had since died -- so they were forever beyond any possible expression of gratitude from me. The more I thought about it, the more ashamed I became. Then I pictured the three who were still alive and, within minutes, I was down in my cabin.
至少有七个人对我有过不同寻常、影响深远的帮助。令人难过的是,我意识到,他们中有一半已经过世了――因此他们永远也无法接受我的谢意了。我越想越感到羞愧。最后我想到了仍健在的三位,几分钟后,我就回到了自己的舱房。
11 Sitting at a table with writing paper and memories of things each had done, I tried composing genuine statements of heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to my dad, Simon A. Haley, a professor at the old Agricultural Mechanical Normal College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas; to my grandma, Cynthia Palmer, back in our little hometown of Henning, Tennessee; and to the Rev. Lonual Nelson, my grammar school principal, retired and living in Ripley, six miles north of Henning.
我坐在摊着信纸的桌旁,回想着他们各自对我所做的一切,试图用真挚的文字表达我对他们的由衷的感激之情:父亲西蒙·A·黑利,阿肯色州派因布拉夫那所古老的农业机械师范学院的教授;住在田纳西州小镇亨宁老家的外祖母辛西娅·帕尔默;以及我的文法学校校长,退休后住在亨宁以北6英里处的里普利的洛纽尔·纳尔逊牧师。
12 The texts of my letters began something like, "Here, this Thanksgiving at sea, I find my thoughts upon how much you have done for me, but I have never stopped and said to you how much I feel the need to thank you -- " And briefly I recalled for each of them specific acts performed on my behalf.
我的信是这样开头的:“出海在外度过的这个感恩节,令我回想起您为我做了那么多事,但我从来没有对您说过自己是多么想感谢您――”我简短回忆了各位为我所做的具体事例。
13 For instance, something uppermost about my father was how he had impressed upon me from boyhood to love books and reading. In fact, this graated into a family habit of after-dinner quizzes at the table about books read most recently and new words learned. My love of books never diminished and later led me toward writing books myself. So many times I have felt a sadness when exposed to modern children so immersed in the electronic media that they have little or no awareness of the marvelous world to be discovered in books.
例如,我父亲的最不同寻常之处在于,从我童年时代起,他就让我深深意识到要热爱书籍、热爱阅读。事实上,这一爱好渐渐变成一种家庭习惯,晚饭后大家围在餐桌旁互相考查近日所读的书以及新学的单词。我对书籍的热爱从未减弱,日后还引导我自己撰文著书。多少次,当我看到如今的孩子们如此沉迷于电子媒体时,我不由深感悲哀,他们很少,或者根本不了解书中所能发现的神奇世界。
14 I reminded the Reverend Nelson how each morning he would open our little country town's grammar school with a prayer over his assembled students. I told him that whatever positive things I had done since had been influenced at least in part by his morning school prayers.
我跟纳尔逊牧师提及他如何每天清晨和集合在一起的学生做祷告,以此开始乡村小学的一天。我告诉他,我后来所做的任何有意义的事,都至少部分地是受了他那些学校晨祷的影响。
15 In the letter to my grandmother, I reminded her of a dozen ways she used to teach me how to tell the truth, to share, and to be forgiving and considerate of others. I thanked her for the years of eating her good cooking, the equal of which I had not found since. Finally, I thanked her simply for having sprinkled my life with starst.
在给外祖母的信中,我谈到了她用了种种方式教我讲真话,教我与人分享,教我宽恕、体谅他人。我感谢她多年来让我吃到她烧的美味菜肴,离开她后我从来没吃过那么可口的菜肴。最后,我感谢她,因为她在我的生命中撒下美妙的遐想。
16 Before I slept, my three letters went into our ship's office mail sack. They got mailed when we reached Tulagi Island.
睡觉前,我的这三封信都送进了船上的邮袋。我们抵达图拉吉岛后都寄了出去。
17 We unloaded cargo, reloaded with something else, then again we put to sea in the routine familiar to us, and as the days became weeks, my little personal experience receded. Sometimes, when we were at sea, a mail ship would rendezvous and bring us mail from home, which, of course, we accorded topmost priority.
我们卸了货,又装了其它物品,随后我们按熟悉的常规,再次出海。 一天又一天,一星期又一星期,我个人的经历渐渐淡忘。我们在海上航行时,有时会与邮船会合,邮船会带给我们家信,当然这是我们视为最紧要的事情。
18 Every time the ship's loudspeaker rasped, "Attention! Mail call!" two hundred-odd shipmates came pounding up on deck and clustered about the two seamen, standing by those precious bulging gray sacks. They were alternately pulling out fistfuls of letters and barking successive names of sailors who were, in turn, shouting back "Here! Here!" amid the pushing.
每当船上的喇叭响起:“大伙听好!邮件点名!”200名左右的水兵就会冲上甲板,围聚在那两个站在宝贵的鼓鼓囊囊的灰色邮袋旁的水手周围。两人轮流取出一把信,大声念收信水手的名字,叫到的人从人群当中挤出,一边应道:“来了,来了!”
19 One "mail call" brought me responses from Grandma, Dad, and the Reverend Nelson -- and my reading of their letters left me not only astonished but more humbled than before.
一次“邮件点名”带给我外祖母,爸爸,以及纳尔逊牧师的回信――我读了信,既震惊又深感卑微。
20 Rather than saying they would forgive that I hadn't previously thanked them, instead, for Pete's sake, they were thanking me -- for having remembered, for having considered they had done anything so exceptional.
他们没有说他们原谅我以前不曾感谢他们,相反,他们向我致谢,天哪,就因为我记得,就因为我认为他们做了不同寻常的事。
21 Always the college professor, my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental, so I knew how moved he was to write me that, after having helped ecate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his own son.
身为大学教授的爸爸向来特别留意不使用任何过于感情化的文字,因此, 当他对我写道,在教了许许多多的年轻人之后,他认为自己最优秀的学生当中也包括自己的儿子时,我知道他是多么地感动。
22 The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a "simple, old-fashioned principal" had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt. "I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right," he said, adding that my letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career had been appreciated.
纳尔逊牧师写道,他那平凡的传统校长的岁月随着学校里发生的如此迅猛的变化而结束,他怀着自我怀疑的心态退了休。“说我做得不对的远远多于说我做得对的,” 他写道,接着说我的信给他带来了振奋人心的信心:自己的校长生涯还是有其价值的。
23 A glance at Grandma's familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her "settin' down" some letter to relatives. Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours. I wept over the page representing my Grandma's recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me -- whom she used to diaper!
一看到外祖母那熟悉的笔迹,我顿时回想起往日站在她的白色摇椅旁看她给亲戚写信的情景。外祖母一个字母一个字母地慢慢拼出一个词,接着是下一个词,因此写满一页要花上几个小时。捧着外祖母最近花费不少工夫对我表达了充满慈爱的谢意,我禁不住流泪――从前是她给我换尿布的呀。
24 Much later, retired from the Coast Guard and trying to make a living as a writer, I never forgot how those three "thank you" letters gave me an insight into how most human beings go about longing in secret for more of their fellows to express appreciation for their efforts.
许多年后,我从海岸警卫队退役,试着靠写作为生,我一直不曾忘记那三封“感谢”信是如何使我认识到,大凡人都暗自期望着有更多的人对自己的努力表达谢意。
25 Now, approaching another Thanksgiving, I have asked myself what will I wish for all who are reading this, for our nation, indeed for our whole world -- since, quoting a good and wise friend of mine, "In the end we are mightily and merely people, each with similar needs." First, I wish for us, of course, the simple common sense to achieve world peace, that being paramount for the very survival of our kind.
现在,感恩节又将来临,我自问,对此文的读者,对我们的祖国,事实上对全世界,我有什么祝愿,因为,用一位善良而且又有智慧的朋友的话来说,“我们究其实都是十分相像的凡人,有着相似的需求。”当然,我首先祝愿大家记住这一简单的常识:实现世界和平,这对我们自身的存亡至关重要。
26 And there is something else I wish -- so strongly that I have had this line printed across the bottom of all my stationery: "Find the good -- and praise it."
此外我还有别的祝愿――这一祝愿是如此强烈,我将这句话印在我所有的信笺底部:“发现并褒扬各种美好的事物。”
Thanksgiving, like Spring Festival, brings families back together from across the country. Waiting for her children to arrive, Ellen Goodman reflects on the changing relationship between parents and children as they grow up and leave home, often to settle far away.
如同春节那样,散居各处的美国人到感恩节就回家团聚。埃伦·古德曼在等待着子女回家的同时,思索着当子女长大离家,常常在远方定居之后,父母与子女关系的不断变化。