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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 educator, 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慎巧发症。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 fraudulently 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困孝缺干细胞。
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 reproductive
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。但在汪辩那个时候,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 reproductive 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 reproductive
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 individual 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 reproductive 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 procedure 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 individual and are later transplanted back into the
individual, they will not be rejected by the individual.
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。
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①当我的大儿子被确诊为“注意缺陷多动障碍”时,我的第一反应就是放松——我终于知道他那些行为举止的原因所在了。然而,我也陷入了悲伤、畏惧和愤怒的深渊。我既为儿子也为我自己感到难过。像其他很多处于相似境况的人一样,我也禁不住要问上帝:“为什么是我?”
②由于上帝的恩惠,我现在可以把心思集中在感恩上了。我相信,上帝选择我来养育我的儿子是因为他相信我会把我的东西给予儿子。上帝教导我去爱、去理解儿子的一切。我很感激上帝选择我作儿子的母亲。
③这是感恩的力量和疗伤作用。
④作为母亲,感恩在日常生活中又能如何帮助我们呢?通过注意和感谢家人所做的一切伟大的事情,想想你能为家庭生活带来什么变化。当你表示感恩的时候,就展现出了你的爱心和感激。每个人每天都需要这些感受。
作为母亲,有时候会感到没有人感激我们——事实上也是如此,母亲总是最后一个被感谢的人。你传授感恩的一个方法就是自己树立榜样。即便有一天你的孩子和丈夫把所有的事情都搞错了,你也要找个理由感谢他们,花些时间和精力,寻找好的地方。想想你的家人所做的事情,哪些值得你说一句“谢谢”。
你可以对丈夫说一句:皮判碧“谢谢你为我们的家努力工作,”或者对孩子说:“我非常欣赏你的幽默感——笑笑真好。”表达你的感激会帮助你的家人理解收到感激的心情。如果他们还是无法领悟,那就在你需要感激的时候告诉他们。你也可以告诉他们,当他们向你表达感激时你的感受。
⑤在你需要合作的时候,感激之情就是一股巨大的推动力。当我获得我2岁儿子的帮助时,我经常满怀激情地表扬他。我要让他知道他帮了我很大的忙。我知道,因为他要感激我,所以我就要教他学会感激。几天前,我带回家一束颜色各异的玫瑰花,一连五天,他几乎每天都要说几次谢谢。
⑥有时,我们过于繁忙,忙于芜杂的生活琐事,连感激都忘记了。我们期望每个人都能够自觉地尽职尽责,在这个时间每个人所能听到的就是做完活。这种态度,日积月累,在家人之间就会发展为抱怨和不和。
⑦生活安稳的时候,表达感激就会很简单。但是,当我们面对艰辛的生活时,表达感激就很难了。经济困难,长期疾病,亲人过世和婚姻纠纷这些都可能让人心烦,给生活带来困难。这时候,甚至连找一个感激的理由都很难。虽然痛苦无法避免,但我们有权选择是否接受痛苦,有权选择我们该如何看待我们周围的环境。
我们可以相信上帝,相信上帝会给我们做好安排的。我们感激经验教训,感激给个人成长和变化的机遇。看看大千世界中的芸芸众生,他们在生活的艰难中获得了礼物。正是生活中的那些痛苦时期让我更加坚强,更加聪明,更加热爱今天!
⑧最近,我参加了一个很有影响的研讨班,讨论的主题是人类产生的多级能量。与会者把能量分成7级。第一级能量是冲茄根据冷漠的感情和牺牲他人的思想而定义的;第二级能量的人怀有愤怒的感情和对抗的思想;人的能量级别越高,他的感情和思想也就更加积极。在第七级别,人就会获得自由的爱和辨证的思想。只有上帝才能达到第七级。人类平均拥有的能量级别为2.5。要想拥有和平和欢乐,个人的能量级别必须达到5或6。
⑨那么我们该如何提高我们的能量级别呢?如何敞开胸怀拥抱欢乐呢?一个有效的方法就是养成感激的态度。看下那些感激的眼神,聆听你的内心和你所爱的人的内心,每天说些肯定的话,感激你的生命所拥有的教训和祝福。你拥有的感激的思想和感情越多,你对社会的作用就越大,你对生命燃举的见解也会更深。
The Watery Place
Issac Asimov
1 We're never going to have visitors from space. No extraterrestrials will ever land on Earth -- at least, any more.
水 乡
伊萨克•阿西莫夫
我们不会再有太空游客前来了。外星人将不会地球――至少是再也不会了。
2I'm not just being a pessimist. As a matter of fact, extraterrestrials have landed. I know that. Space ships are crisscrossing space among a million worlds, probably, but they will never come here. I know that, too. All on account of a ridiculous error.
我这不是悲观。事实上,外星人过地球。这个我知道。在宇宙的千百万颗星球当中穿梭往来滚桐局的太空飞船可能有许多,可它们永远不会再来我们这儿了。这我也知道。而这一切都是由于一个荒唐的错误导致的。
3I'll explain.
且听我解释。
4It was actually Bart Cameron's error and you'll have to understand about Bart Cameron. He's the sheriff at Twin Gulch, Idaho, and I'm his deputy. Bart Cameron is an impatient man and he gets most impatient when he has to work up his income tax. You see, besides being sheriff, he also owns and runs the general store, he's got some shares in a sheep ranch, he's got a kind of pension for being a disabled veteran (bad knee) and a few other things like that. Naturally, it makes his tax figures complicated.
这实际上是巴特•卡默伦的错,所以你得对巴特•卡默伦这人有所了解。他是爱达荷州特温加尔奇的治安官轮斗,我是他的副手。巴特•卡默伦是个脾气暴躁的人,到了他不得不整理个人应缴多少所得税时更是容易光火。大让你想,他除了当治安官,还经营着一家杂货铺,并拥有一家牧羊场的股份,同时还享有残疾退伍军人(膝盖受过伤)津贴,以及其他某些类似的津贴。这样一来他的个人所得税计算起来自然就变得复杂。
5It wouldn't be so bad if he'd let a taxman work on the forms with him, but he insists on doing it himself and it makes him a bitter man. By April 14, he isn't approachable. 要是他让税务人员帮他填表就不至于那么糟糕,可他非得要自己填,于是填得他牢骚满腹。每年到了4月14日,他就变得难以接近。
6So it's too bad the flying saucer landed on April 14, 1956.
那个飞碟在1956年4月14日这一天真是大错特错。
7I saw it land. My chair was backed up against the wall in the sheriff's office, and I was looking at the stars through the windows and wondering if I ought to knock off and hit the sack or keep on listening to Cameron curse real steady as he went over his columns of figures for the hundred twenty-seventh time.
我是看着它降落的。当时我的椅子背靠着治安官办公室的墙,我正望着窗外的星星,琢磨着是不是该下班去睡觉,还是继续听卡默伦骂个不停,他正在第127次核对他在税单上填写的一栏栏数字。
8It looked like a shooting star at first, but then the track of light broadened into two things that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.
一开始像是颗流星,可接着那轨迹越来越亮,变成两个光点,就像是火箭喷出的气流,那个东西一点没出声就着落了。
9Two men got out.
两个人走了出来。
10I couldn't say anything or do anything. I couldn't choke or point; I couldn't even bug my eyes. I just sat there.
我没法说话,也无法做事。喉部肌肉僵直,也没法用手示意,甚至眼睛都没法瞪大。我就那么呆坐着。
11Cameron? He never looked up.
卡默伦?他压根儿就没抬起过头。
12There was a knock on the door. It opened and the two men from the flying saucer stepped in. I would have thought they were city fellows if I hadn't seen the flying saucer land. They wore gray suits, with white shirts and dark red-brown ties. They had on black shoes and black hats. They had dark complexions, black wavy hair and brown eyes. They had very serious looks on their faces and were about five foot ten apiece. They looked very much alike.
有敲门声。门开了,飞碟上的那两个人走了进来。要不是我看着飞碟降落,我还会以为他们就是镇上的人。两人身着灰套装、白衬衣,戴着深红棕色的领带。他们穿着黑皮鞋,戴着黑帽子,肤色黑黑的,卷曲的头发黑黑的,眼睛呈棕色。两人神情严肃,身高都在5.10英尺左右,看上去非常相象。
13God, I was scared.
天哪,我害怕极了。
14But Cameron just looked up when the door opened and frowned. He said, "What can I do for you, folks?" and he tapped his hand on the forms so it was obvious he hadn't much time.
可卡默伦只是在门开的那会儿略一抬头,皱了皱眉头。 “有什么事吗,伙计?”他边说边用手拍着税单,显然正忙着呢。
15One of the two stepped forward. He said, "We have had your people under observation a long time." He pronounced each word carefully and all by itself.
那两人中的一个走上前说道:“我们对你们的人已经观察很久了。”他说话时小心翼翼一字一顿的。
16Cameron said, "My people? All I got's a wife. What's she been doing?"
卡默伦说:“我们的人?我只有老婆一个人。她干什么来着?”
17The fellow in the suit said, "We have chosen this locality for our first contact because it is isolated and peaceful. We know that you are the leader here."
穿西装的那人说:“我们选择此地作为第一接触点,因为这里偏僻安静。我们知道您是这里的首领。”
18"I'm the sheriff, if that's what you mean, so spit it out. What's your trouble?"
“我是治安官,这是你要说的吧,有什么话就直说, 你们遇到什么麻烦了?”
19"We have been careful to adopt your mode of dress and even to assume your appearance. We have also learned your language."
“我们非常谨慎,沿用了你们的衣着模式,甚至采用了你们的外貌。我们还学习了你们的语言。”
20You could see the light break in on Cameron. He said, "You guys foreigners?" Cameron didn't go much for foreigners, never having met many outside the army, but generally he tried to be fair.
你可以看到卡默伦脸上开始现出领悟的神情。他说:“你俩是外国人?”卡默伦不怎么喜欢外国人,退伍后就没怎么见过外国人,不过总的来说他尽力做到为人公正。
21The man from the saucer said, "Foreigners? Indeed we are. We come from the watery place your people call Venus."
飞碟来人说:“外国人?正是如此。我们来自你们称之为金星的水乡。”
22Cameron never blinked an eye. He said, "All right. This is the U.S.A. We all got equal rights regardless of race, color, or nationality. I'm at your service. What can I do for you?"
卡默伦连眼也没眨一下便说:“好吧。这里是美国。我们这儿不论种族、肤色、国籍,一律平等。我为你们效劳。你们有何贵干?”
23"We would like to have you make immediate arrangements for the important men of your U.S.A., as you call it, to be brought here for discussions leading to your people joining our great organization."
“我们希望您马上与贵国,即你们所说的美国的要人联系,前来此地商讨加入我们组织的事宜。”
24Slowly, Cameron got red. "Our people join your organization. We're already part of the U.N. and God knows what else. And I suppose I'm to get the President here, eh? Right now? In Twin Gulch? Send a hurry-up message?" He looked at me, as though he wanted to see a smile on my face, but I couldn't as much as fall down if someone had pushed the chair out from under me.
卡默伦的脸色渐渐涨红。“我们加入你们的组织。我们已经是联合国的成员了,天知道还有别的什么。我想是让我把总统找来,呃?就现在?前来特温加尔奇?要我送去一封加快信?”他看了看我,似乎想在我脸上看到一丝笑意,可此刻若有人从我身后把椅子抽开,我也不会摔倒在地。
25The saucer man said, "Speed is desirable."
飞碟来人说:“事不宜迟。”
26"You want Congress, too? The Supreme Court?"
“你们想不想要国会也来?还有最高法院?”
27"If they will help, sheriff."
“那也无妨,治安官。”
28And Cameron really went to pieces. He banged his income tax form and yelled, "Well, you're not helping me, and I have no time for wise guys who come around, especially foreigners. If you don't get the hell out of here straight away, I'll lock you up for disturbing the peace and I'll never let you out."
这下卡默伦真的气坏了。他把税单向桌上重重地一摔,叫道:“好啊,你们跟我添乱,我可没时间跟你们这些自作聪明的人纠缠,尤其是外国人。要是你们不马上从这里滚出去,我就以扰乱治安罪把你们关起来,永远不放你们出来。”
29"You wish us to leave?" said the man from Venus.
“您是要我们离开?”金星人问。
30"Right now! Get the hell out of here and back to wherever you're from and don't ever come back. I don't want to see you and no one else around here does."
“这就走!滚出去,滚回你们老家去,别再回来。我不想见到你们,这儿谁都不想见到你们。”
31The two men looked at each other.
那两人对望了一眼。
32Then the one who had done all the talking said, "I can see in your mind that you really wish, with great intensity, to be left alone. It is not our way to force ourselves or our organization on people who do not wish us or it. We will respect your privacy and leave. We will not return. We will put a warning around your world and none will enter."
一直作为发言人的那人于是说:“看得出您确实极其不愿受到打搅。我们从不愿将我们自己或我们组织的意见强加于无意接受者。我们尊重您的私人自由,马上离开。我们将不再返回。我们会在你们地球周围发布警告,不再会有人前来。”
33Cameron said, "Mister, I'm tired of this garbage, so I'll count to three -- "
卡默伦说:“先生,够了,别再胡说八道了,我要开始数3――”
34They turned and left, and I just knew that everything they said was so. I was listening to them, you see, which Cameron wasn't, because he was busy thinking of his income tax, and it was as though I could hear their minds, know what I mean? I knew that there would be a kind of fence around earth, keeping others out.
那两人转身离去,我当然知道他们说的句句是实话。你知道,我一直在听他们说,卡默伦可没有,他一心只想着他的税单,而且我似乎知道了他们脑子里在想什么,你明白我的意思吗?我知道地球周围会竖起一道屏障,使他人无法进入。
35And when they left, I got my voice back -- too late. I screamed, "Cameron, for God's sake, they're from space. Why'd you send them away?"
他们走了之后,我才能又开口说话――已经太迟了。我高声叫起来:“天哪,卡默伦,他们是从太空来的。你为什么要赶他们走?”
36"From space!" He stared at me.
“从太空来的!”他两眼瞪着我。
37I yelled, "Look!" I don't know how I did it, he being twenty-five pounds heavier than I, but I heaved him to the window by his shirt collar.
我大喝一声:“你看!”我到现在都不明白是怎么一回事,他比我重了25英磅,可我竟然扯着他的衣领把他拽到了窗前。
38He was too surprised to resist and when he recovered his wits enough to make like he was going to knock me down, he caught sight of what was going on outside the window and the breath went out of him.
他震惊之下都没有反抗,等他回过神来想要把我击倒时,正好看见窗外的情景,顿时气都喘不出来了。
39They were getting into the flying saucer, those two men, and the saucer sat there, large, round, shiny and kind of powerful, you know. Then it took off. It went up easy as a feather and a red-orange glow showed up on one side and got brighter as the ship got smaller till it was a shooting star again, slowly fading out.
他们正在进入飞碟,就是那两人,飞碟就在那儿,知道吗,大大的, 圆圆的,亮晶晶的,挺有气势的。接着飞碟起飞了。它轻轻巧巧地上升,像根羽毛似的,一侧发出一道桔红色的光芒,那光越来越强烈,飞碟变得越来越小,最后重新变成一颗流星渐渐消失。
40And I said, "Sheriff, why'd you send them away? They had to see the President. Now they'll never come back."
我说:“治安官,你什么要赶他们走?他们要见总统。这下他们再也不会回来了。”
41Cameron said, "I thought they were foreigners. They said they had to learn our language. And they talked funny."
卡默伦说:“我当他们是外国人。他们说的,要学我们的语言。而且他们说的话莫名其妙。”
42"Oh, fine. Foreigners."
“哼,得了,还外国人呢。”
43"They said they were foreigners and they looked Italian. I thought they were Italian."
“他们说自己是外国人,两人看上去像是意大利人。我以为他们是意大利人。”
44"How could they be Italian? They said they were from the planet Venus. I heard them. They said so."
“他们怎么会是意大利人呢?他们说他们是从金星来的。我听见的。他们是这么说的。”
45"The planet Venus." His eyes got real round.
“金星。”他的眼睛瞪得越发圆了。
46"They said it. They called it the watery place or something. You know Venus has a lot of water on it."
“他们是这么说的。他们把它叫做水乡什么的。要知道,金星上多的是水。”
47But you see, it was just an error, a stupid error, the kind anyone could make. Only now Earth is never going to have another Venusian visit us. That dope, Cameron, and his income tax!
所以你瞧,这仅仅是个错误,一个愚蠢的错误,那种人人都可能犯的错误。只是从今往后地球上再也不会有任何金星人来访了。卡默伦这个笨蛋,还有他那该死的税单!
48Because he whispered, "Venus! When they talked about the watery place, I thought they meant Venice!"
只听他嘀咕道:“金星!他们说水乡的时候,我还以为他们指的是威尼斯呢!”
Is there life on other planets? Not on those surrounding our sun, it seems. But what of other stars? Do they have planets capable of supporting life? This article sets out to explore the possibilities.
其他行星上是否有生命存在?太阳周围的那些行星上似乎没有。但在其他星系呢?它们是否拥有能维持生命的行星?本文试图探索这种可能性。
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As long as you can insist on being grateful to others, restrained to yourself, devoted to things and cherishing things, it's very difficult for you to get a raise or promotion, or to realize your career dream. From now on, be a grateful person!
只要你能坚持对人感恩,对己克制,对事尽心,对物珍惜,你想不加薪升职都很难,你想不实现你的职业梦想都很难。从此刻开始,做一个懂得感恩的人吧!
We will find such a successful way: as long as we learn to be grateful, we will find that the power of gratitude is extremely strong, it can make us full of passion and vitality every day.
我们会发现这样一条成功之路:只要我们学会感恩,就会发现感恩的力量无比强大,它能让我们每天充满激情和活力。
Let our customers, bosses, colleagues, etc. be willing to trust and help us, let us understand the meaning of work and the true meaning of life, let our work become a career that can reflect the value of life rather than a means of making a living, so as to realize the leap from ordinary to outstanding.
让我们的客户、老板、同事等愿意信赖、帮助我们,让我们洞悟工作的意义和人生的真谛,让我们的工作变成能够体现人生价值的事业而不仅是谋生的手段,从而实现从平凡到卓越的飞跃。
Know the grace of dripping water, and report to each other when gushing spring. Every day is full of passion and vitality. Gain trust and help from customers, bosses, colleagues, etc. Work is no longer a means of making a living, but a career that can reflect the value of life. Have a strong network of contacts. To realize the meaning of life, we need to create a happy work and a good life with a grateful heart!
懂得滴水之恩,当涌泉相报。每天肢贺充满激情和活力。获颂中得客户、老板、同事等的信任和帮助。工作不再是谋生的手段,而是能够体现人生价值的事业。拥有强大的人脉网络。洞悟人生的意义愉快的工作和美好的生活,需要我们用一颗感恩的心来创造!
A grateful heart needs our hard work and happy life to nourish!
一颗善于感恩的心,需要我们努历樱派力的工作和快乐的生活来滋润!
扩展资料
这部分内容主要考察的是时间状语从句的知识点:
用表示时间的连词连接一个句子作状语,这样的主从复合句就是时间状语从句。连接时间状语从句的连接词有:when, before, after, while, as soon as, until, since...... 这里要注意一点的是,如果主句是一般将来时,从句只能用一般现在时表示将来意义。
when引导的从句的谓语动词可以是延续性的动词,可以是瞬时动词。并且when有时表示“就在那时”。例如:When she came in, I stopped eating.她进来时,我停止吃饭。
由till或until引导的时间状语从句。till和until一般情况下两者可以互换,但是在强调句型中多用until。并且要注意的是:如果主句中的谓语动词是瞬时动词时,必须用否定形式。
如果主句中的谓语动词是延续性动词时,用肯定或否定形式都可以,但表达的意思不同。till不可以用在句首,而until可以放在句首。
爱因斯坦的轶事
A Wastebasket for His Mistakes
1933年10月17日,当54岁的艾伯特爱因斯坦到达美国时,班轮Westernland正驶入纽约港,欢迎委员会正在等他,但他和他的随行人员不知所踪。
新泽西普林斯顿高级研究院的理事Abraham Flexner倾向于阻止名人教授的宣传。所以他派拖船在班轮通过检疫时将这位伟人迅速而神秘地从Westernland带走。爱因斯坦的头发从黑色的宽檐帽中露了出来,悄悄地下了运送他和他的党员们前往曼哈顿下城的船,那里会有车将他们迅速带往普林斯顿。“爱因斯坦博士想要的只是安静和平。” Flexner告诉记者。轮纤
作为对理论物悔拿理有贡献的1921年诺贝尔奖得主,爱因斯坦在学院中拥有一间办公室。他被问及需要哪些设备,“一张桌子,一把椅子,一些稿纸和铅笔,”他回答道,“噢,还有一个大的废纸篓,这样我可以把错误的想法都扔掉。”
他和他的妻子Elsa租了一间房子定居于普林斯顿。他喜欢美国,尽管美国的财富的不平等和种族歧视更像是欧洲的精英体制。“人民的民主特性使这位新来的人致力于这个国家。”之后他对此感到惊奇,“没有人对他人低声下气。”
Not Always an Einstein
然而他不是从小就是拥有高智商的爱因斯坦。他在德国慕尼黑长大,是Hermann和Pauling Einstein两个孩子中的长子,他在学习说话这方面十分迟钝。“我的父母对此很着急,”他回想着,“于是他们咨询了医生。”
甚至是当他两岁之后他开始使用语言,发生了怪事令他的保姆称他为笨蛋。“他说的话都十分日常,”他的妹妹Maja回想着,“他张开嘴唇,轻声地不断重复。”说话方面缓慢的发展与对权威无礼的反叛导致一位德国校长让他打包回家,另一位则宣称爱因斯坦没什么了不起。
“我不禁问自己我是如何发现相对论的,它好像就存在于下面这个情况。”随后爱因斯坦解释道。“普通的成人不会为空间和时间的问题操心,这些事是他们作为小孩时思考的。但是我发育缓慢,当我已经长大时我开始思考空间和时间。我探索这个问题比普通小孩更深入。”
A Merry Science
父亲经营家族企业,母亲热爱音乐,他们都给了爱因斯坦鼓励,他花了很多时间在拼图和建筑玩具塔上。“坚持不懈是他的性格之一。”他妹妹谈论道。
有一次,学龄前的爱因斯坦生病在床,他的父亲给他带了一个指南针。之后记起这事的爱因斯坦在检查指南针并发现它奇妙的力量时非常的兴奋,他颤抖着,身体发冷。有磁性的小针的表现好像被一种隐藏的强势区域所影响,而不是通过机械的触碰。“这背后藏着很深的东西。”他说。
他对磁场、重力、惯性、线偏振光束十分惊奇。他保留同时在脑海中持有两个想法的能力,当这两种想法起了矛盾冲突时他十分困惑烦恼,而令他高兴的则是当他看到这两者之间潜在的统一。“像你和我这样的人是不会变老的。”多年以后他给一位朋友这样写道。“在我们出生的神秘世界面前,我们永远表现的像个好奇的孩子。”
与普遍的信仰相悖,爱因斯坦擅长数学。在他13岁时,“他偏爱用应用算法解决复杂的问题,”他的妹妹回忆着。他的叔叔Jakob Einstein,是一位工程师,向他介绍了代数的有趣之处,并称之为“快乐的科学”,每当爱因斯坦取胜时,他“快乐的不得了”。
他阅读了流行的科学书籍,这些书表明了《圣经》中大部分内容都不是真的,爱因斯坦开始抵制所有形式的教条。就像他在1901年写得那样,“愚蠢的信仰权威是真理最大的敌人。”
A Proud American
爱因斯坦15岁时离开了德国去往北意大利,在那里他父母重新安置了产业,在他16岁时,他写了理论物理学的第一篇论文。
1900年21岁的爱因斯坦从苏黎世理工大学毕业,他发现了相对论,涉及到直觉知识和个人经验。1905年他在瑞士专利局工作并开始发碧桐搭展相对论,但他的理论没有被完全接受,直到1919年,日食的观测证实了他的预言:太阳引力能够使光线弯曲。
1919年,爱因斯坦40岁时,他突然成为了举世闻名的人物。他也和他的第二任妻子Elsa结婚了,同时是第一任婚姻中两个儿子的父亲。1921年的春天,他名声大噪,前往美国为期两个月的盛大参观,在那儿他受到了热烈的欢迎,他所到之处都引起了群众的疯狂。这个世界从未出现过有着这样名声的科学名人明星。
爱因斯坦热爱美国,欣赏其繁荣是自由和个人主义的成果。在1933年3月,随着希特勒对德国的掌权,爱因斯坦意识到他不能继续生活在欧洲了,那个秋天,他定居于普林斯顿,到1940年,他入籍美国,自豪地称自己为一名美国公民。
The Harmony of Nature and Math
爱因斯坦在美国的第一个万圣节他搞定了那些在他家门前伴着小提琴唱小夜曲的捣蛋鬼们。圣诞节时,当地教堂成员经过他家唱着颂歌,他站在门外,借了一把小提琴愉悦地为他们伴奏。
爱因斯坦很快有了这样一个传奇人物的形象,一位和蔼的教授,有时烦躁但一直很亲切,很少梳头,很少穿袜子。“我已经到了一个别人叫我穿袜子而我偏偏选择不穿的年纪。”他这样对当地的孩子们说。
他曾经帮助过一个15岁的孩子,Henry Rosso,接受了他的采访。Rosso的老师提出采访科学家可以取得高分,所以Rosso去爱因斯坦的家找他,没想到竟被拒之门外。送奶员给了他一个小提示:爱因斯坦每天早晨9点半会走一段固定的路线,于是Rosso溜出学校跟着爱因斯坦。
但是这位学生,突然很困惑,他不知道该问些什么。于是爱因斯坦建议他提了一些关于数学方面的问题。“我发现自然是以一种美好的方式建造的,我们的任务是找到其中数学结构。”爱因斯坦解释着他的教学观念,“它是一种帮我度过一生的信念。”
这篇采访使Henry Rosso的成绩取得了A。