新视野大学英语视听说教程 4 Unit 8-9
时间：2018-12-29 作者：英语课 分类：新视野大学英语：视听说教程 4
MODEL3 Is it interfering 1 with nature?
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Nora: Some religious groups are opposed to genetic 2 research. They believe it’s interfering with nature.
John: I know. But nature can be pretty hard-nosed too, so we often need to interfere 3 with her—we build dams to control flooding.
Nora: There’re many diseases that are a part of nature, and they cause people a great deal of misery 4: cancer and diabetes 5, for example.
John: A better understanding of the genetic code that controls our body would be a great help in curing many diseases.
Nora: The project to map the human genetic code…what’s that called?
John: The genome project. As you say, it has tremendous promise to make our lives better—just in the ability to identify and correct genetically-caused diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Nora: Some diseases like cancer are also believed to have a genetic switch.
John: That’s right, and once researchers identify the switch, perhaps they can turn off cancer or Alzheimer’s.
Nora: People are also concerned that science will enable us to determine such qualities as intelligence and height.
John: You know it’s going to happen—it’s just a matter of when.
Nora: Imagine if everyone was a combination of Yao Ming and Albert Einstein.
John: But what if they get it wrong, and you wind up with Yao Ming’s knowledge of nuclear physics and Albert Einstein’s height?
Nora: All those religious groups would say that it served you right.
- It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
- Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
- If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话，可能弊多利少。
- When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件，棘手的事情就来了。
- Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
- He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。