全新版大学英语三 第八单元 翻译

第八单元

1.医学专家就克隆人是否应被允许以及对社会有何潜在影响展开了辩论

Medical experts debated whether the cloning of human should be permitted and what it's potential effect on society might be.

2.当地百分之八十五的人拥有全职工作，只有百分之三的人称自己没有工作

85% of the people in the local area are in full-time employment,only 3% describe themselves as unemployed.

3.我国相关部门将加快立法，保护农民工的权利

The departments concerned in China will speed up legislation to protect rights of migrant workers.

4.近年来一些心理专家试图从生物学的观点解释智力

In recent years some psychologists have tried to explain intelligence from a biological stand point.

5.世界金融危机对该国的出口工业产生了巨大的影响。在仅仅六个月的时间里，许多工厂迫于形势而关门歇业

The global finacial crisis has had a huge impact on that country 's export in dustry.In no more than six months,many factories have closed down by necessity.

1997 年，苏格兰一组科学家的克隆实验使多利羊得以诞生。自那时以来，有关克隆人的激烈争论一直进行着。这一有争议的问题的焦点聚集在此项技术的伦理与社会含义上：此项技术会对人类生育、抚养孩子以及人的个性等的真正意义带来什么影响。

Dolly the sheep resulted from a cloning experiment by a group of Scottish scientists in 1997. A fierce debate on human cloning has ever since been going on. This contentious issue has focused on ethical and social implications of the technology: what the technology might do to the very meaning of human reproduction, child rearing, individuality, et cetera.

大多数科学家坚决反对繁殖性克隆，支持旨在治疗疾病的治疗性克隆。其理由是，治疗性的克隆技术不牵涉任何对人的生命的威胁，实际上还能为人们提供极大的缓解痛苦的可能。他们相信有适当地政策和监管以确保治疗性克隆被安全地使用，我们都能从这一过程中受益。The majority of scientists are adamantly opposed to reproductive cloning and support therapeutic cloning for treating diseases. The reason is that therapeutic cloning does not involve any type of risk to human life and actually provides tremendous potential for the relief of suffering in human beings. Scientists believe that with policies and monitoring in place to ensure that therapeutic cloning is used safely, we can all benefit from this procedure.