TED中英官方演讲稿-JuanEnriquez_2003畅谈基因组学与人类未来.docxVIP

1.Im supposed to scare you, because its about fear, right? 我要开始危言耸听了2.And you should be really afraid, but not for the reasons why you think you should be. 然后你们应该会感到担心 但不是因为你们认为的原因而担心3.You should be really afraid that -- if we stick up the first slide on this thing -- there we go -- that youre missing out. 你们所担心的是—— 如果你关注的是幻灯片上这东西，那没问题，但如果你关注的不是这个，那么你将会错过一些真正值得关注的事物4.Because if you spend this week thinking about Iraq and thinking about Bush and thinking about the stock market, youre going to miss one of the greatest adventures that weve ever been on. 比如说你们这周都在关注伊拉克 布什或者股市 那么就会错过有史以来最棒的体验5.And this is what this adventures really about. 关于这东西的体验6.This is crystallized DNA. 即DNA晶体7.Every life form on this planet -- every insect, every bacteria, every plant, every animal, every human, every politician -- (Laughter) 这个星球上形成的每个生命，包括昆虫，细菌，植物 动物，人类，政治家——(笑)8.is coded in that stuff. 都是由DNA编码的9.And if you want to take a single crystal of DNA, it looks like that. 这是单个DNA晶体10.And were just beginning to understand this stuff. 而我们目前对它的研究才刚起步11.And this is the single most exciting adventure that we have ever been on. 这项研究将给我们带来前所未有的振奋12.Its the single greatest mapping project weve ever been on. 将是目前为止我们所参与的最伟大的项目13.If you think that the mapping of Americas made a difference, or landing on the moon, or this other stuff, its the map of ourselves and the map of every plant 如果你认为绘制美国地图 登陆月球或类似项目影响深远 那么你错了，实际上我们每一个人以及每种植物14.and every insect and every bacteria that really makes a difference. 昆虫，细菌的基因图谱才是最具意义的15.And its beginning to tell us a lot about evolution. 它能告诉我们进化史16.(Laughter) It turns out that what this stuff is -- and Richard Dawkins has written about this -- is, this is really a river out of Eden. (笑) 这就是 正如Richard Dawkins著作《伊甸园之河》 是条伊甸园之河17.So, the 3.2 billion base pairs inside each of your cells is really a history of where youve been for the past billion years. 你的细胞中有320亿对碱基 见证你在过去10几亿年的历史18.And we could st