cloning reading翻译.ppt

CLONING: WHERE IS IT LEADING US? 克隆一直在我们左右并且已经被大多数人接受。它是一种用来准确复制其他动物或者植物的方法。在植物方面，克隆就发生在园丁从正在生长的植物上切去切口用来制造新的植株的时候。在动物方面也有克隆现象，比如说两个拥有同样性别以及外貌的同卵双胞胎。这两个事实都是自然界里的克隆例子。 Cloning has always been with us and is here to stay. It is a way of making an exact copy of another animal or plant. It happens in plants when gardeners take cuttings from growing plants to make new ones. It also happens in animals when twins identical in sex and appearance are produced from the same original egg. The fact is that these are both examples of natural clones. 表语从句 exact adj.精确的准确的 exactly adv. cutting n. 剪枝/剪报/剪纸 cut v.剪切/切/删剪identical adj.完全同样的，相同的; 同卵的 [a??dent?kl] n.完全相同的事物;同卵双胞 sex and appearance 性别和相貌 Cloning has two major uses. Firstly, gardeners use it all the time to produce commercial quantities of plants. Secondly, it is valuable for research on new plant species and for medical research on animals. Cloning plants is straightforward while cloning animals is very complicated. commerical adj.贸易的，商业的 commerce[‘k?m?:s] n.商业，贸易;?交往 commodity[k?m?d?t?]n.商品;?日用品 quantities of =a quantity of 许多（修可数名词/不可数） straightforward [?stre?t?f?:w?d]adj.直截了当的;??明确的 adv.直截了当地;?坦率地; 克隆有2方面的主要用途。首先，园丁可以一直用它生产具有商业价值的植物。其次，它对于新的植物物种以及动物医药方面的研究极具价值性。植物克隆相对于动物克隆来说简单得多，而动物克隆则比较困难。 It is a difficult task to undertake. Many attempts to clone mammals failed. But at last the determination and patience of the scientists paid off in 1996 with a breakthrough - the cloning of Dolly the sheep. The procedure works like this: undertake [??nd?te?k]vt.承担，从事;?保证; undertaking n.任务，事业 undertaker n. 承担者，承办者 attempt to do 尝试去做 breakthrough n.突破 pay off 得到好的结果，取得成功，偿清 procedure n.程序，过程，步骤 动物克隆是一项难以施行的任务。许多去克隆哺乳动物的尝试都以失败告终。但是在最后，科学家们凭借着决心和耐心终于在1996年取得了突破性的成功——成功地克隆出了多利羊。这项工作的步骤如下： On the one hand, the whole scientific world followed the progress of the first successful clone, Dolly the sheep. The fact that she seemed to develop normally was very encoura