医学英语教程课文翻译Unit.docVIP

Unit 1 Reading A The Human complex— A Never –failing Source of Wonderment (人类的复杂性——一个永远不会失去惊叹的话题) “ In my view, ” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1814 , “no knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions. ” Distinguished thinkers before and since Jefferson have held this belief, but curiously, it is not one that the average person wholeheartedly shares.Man’s attitude toward his own body—his single most precious possession—is decidedly ambivalent. At one and the same time he is fascinated by it and fearful of it, partly in echo of ancient ta