GRE例子集合.docx

例子集合+８）垃圾邮件：不要再说junk mail啦，老土！有个更native的词：spam，记住哟！９）环境问题：氟利昂：freon，臭氧层：ozonosphere/ ozone layer，臭氧空洞：ozone hole；赤潮：red tideWatson and Crick【科学改变观念】Watson and Crick discovered the DNAs duplex structure which altered our concept from macro biology into micro biological world.【新手vs.老手】Watson and Crick, who discovered the molecular structure of DNA, are both very young when sharing a 1962 Nobel Prize for advances in the study of genetics. We can see that beginners can make crucial innovation. 【科研－结果难预料】The discovery of the structure of DNA, indeed, provided a completely new perspective to study biology and thus indicate the rapid development of biology. At the time, they could not predict how the research results have changed the world. 【科学·丑闻·黄禹锡】MORE than most activities, scientific publishing depends on trust. Scientists certainly make mistakes, and also seek to present their results in the most favourable light, but the scientific peers of an author who review his work for publication cannot be expected to repeat and verify it, so they have to start from the assumption that any manuscript they receive is telling the truth as the author sees it. In future, however, the wise Russian proverb adopted by Ronald Reagan may come to apply: “trust, but verify”. That, in essence, is the recommendation made this week by a committee of the great and good who have been looking into the unfortunate incident of Hwang Woo-suk and the invented stem-cell data. 科学论文发表比任何事情都更有赖于诚信。科学家们当然会出错，也努力美化其研究成果，然而，科学家的研究报告多由其同僚复审，而同僚们无法重复试验或核实其真假，因此他们带着这样的假设开始复核：他们所拿到的任何研究报告草案都是作者所亲见的真实。然而在将来，或许用得上里根（Ronald Reagan）修改的俄罗斯箴言：信任，但要核查。其实这正是本周某卓越委员会的推荐，该委员会负责调查黄禹锡（Hwang Woo-suk）的不幸事件及伪造的肝细胞数据。Dr Hwang provoked a flurry of excitement a year ago when he published a paper in Science that claimed to have cloned human embryos from embryonic stem cells. However, his claims rapidly unravelled, and he was found to have invented most, if not all, of the data. The result was a lot of egg on a lot of faces, an