科学美国人60秒 SSS NIH Director Looks at Presidential Transition
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：2016年Scientific American(十一)月
“As somebody who is part of the executive branch and serving in this role which I can consider to be a great privilege, as director of NIH, I am confident that the convictions that are held by many Americans and by most members of the Congress, that biomedical research is one of most important investments that our government makes, will carry the day and that I think that there’s no reason for people to commence hand-wringing by this unexpected turn of events.”
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, at the offices of Scientific American and the Nature journals on November 14th. He was asked about the future of the NIH after the election and the inauguration 1 of the new president on January 20th.
“I do think the case for what medical research is doing right now in terms of its advances in human health, its way of stimulating 2 the economy—which is quite substantial—and it’s achieving American leadership, which has made a big difference over the decades, is a sufficiently 3 compelling case that people looking at the evidence all pretty much come to the conclusion that this is an area that we, if anything, ought to enhance and certainly not retrench 4.
“So I think the facts and the circumstances cause me to be quite confident that the area that I’ve had the privilege of representing will continue to do well, regardless of exactly what happens in the course of political events. You can watch and see if I turn out to be wrong, but that’s my position and I’m sticking to it.”
As for his own future:
“I have no idea. I am appointed by the president. I, like every other presidential appointee and Senate-confirmed person am required to submit a letter of resignation by December 7th, I will do that. The letter will say I am resigning effective January 20th. And until that moment it may not be that clear what happens next, my mind is pretty open to that. I’m actually kind of enjoying the ambiguity 5 of not knowing what comes next. I will continue to oversee 6 my research lab at NIH come what may. I run a lab of about 10 people…I have some incredibly gifted postdocs right now who are making major advances in diabetes 7 and aging research. And I will continue to be their mentor 8 and their research advisor 9 as I have done for the past now 23 years since I’ve been at NIH. So at least that part of what happens after January 20th is clear. The rest—it’s really not up to me.”
—Steve Mirsky
- The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
- Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。
- shower gel containing plant extracts that have a stimulating effect on the skin 含有对皮肤有益的植物精华的沐浴凝胶
- This is a drug for stimulating nerves. 这是一种兴奋剂。
- It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
- The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。
- Shortly afterwards,cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.不久之后，国防开支的削减迫使航空航天业紧缩开支。
- Inflation has forced us to retrench.因通货膨胀我们不得不紧缩开支。
- The telegram was misunderstood because of its ambiguity.由于电文意义不明确而造成了误解。
- Her answer was above all ambiguity.她的回答毫不含糊。
- Soldiers oversee the food handouts.士兵们看管着救济食品。
- Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.请一位房产检视员或建筑师来监督并检查不同阶段的工作。
- In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
- Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。