新视野大学英语第三版读写第二册UNIT8课文翻译(A+B篇)

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Animals or children? — A scientist's choice

动物还是孩子？

——

一位科学家的选择

1 I am the enemy! I am one of those cursed, cruel physician scientists involved in animal research.

These rumors sting, for I have never thought of myself as an evil person. I became a children's

doctor

because

of

my

love

for

children

and

my

supreme

desire

to

keep

them

healthy.

During

medical school and residency, I saw many children die of cancer and bloodshed from

injury —

circumstances

against

which

medicine

has

made

great

progress

but

still

has

a

long

way

to

go.

More importantly, I also saw children healthy thanks to advances in medical science such as infant

breathing support, powerful new medicines and surgical techniques and the entire field of organ

transplantation. My desire to tip the scales in favor of healthy, happy children drew me to medical

research.

我就是那个敌人！我就是那些被人诅咒的、残忍的、搞动物实验的医生科学家之一。这些谣

言刺痛了我，

因为我从来没想到自己是一个邪恶的人。

我成为一位儿科医生，

因为我爱孩子，

也因为我的最大愿望是 让他们保持健康。

在医学院学习和住院医生实习时，

我看到了许 多儿

童死于癌症和受伤流血

——

虽然对 此医学正取得很大进步，

但远非完善。

更重要的是，

看到孩子们能保持健康得益于医学的进步，

如 婴儿呼吸支持器，

功效强大的新药物和外科手

术技术及整个器官 移植领域的发展。我希望孩子们健康快乐，这促使我从事医学研究。

2 My accusers have twisted the truth into a fable and cast me as the devil. They claim that I have

no moral compass, that I torture innocent animals for the sole purpose of career advancement, and

that

my

experiments

have

no

relevance

to

medicine.

Meanwhile,

an

uncaring

public

barely

watches,

convinced

that

the

issue

has

no

significance,

and

publicity

-

conscious

senators

and

politicians increasingly give way to the lobbying of animal rights activists.

控诉我的人把真相歪曲成一则神话，< /p>

并把我描写成恶魔。

他们声称我没有道德界限，

< br>我折磨

那些无辜动物的唯一目的就是为了自己的职业升迁，

而我的实验根本与医药毫不相关。

与此

同时，

无动于衷的公众几乎不闻不问，

相信这个议题毫无意义，

而具有宣传意识的参议员和

政治家们却对动物权利活动家的游说不断作出让步。

3

We,

in

medical

research,

have

also

been

unbelievably

uncaring.

We

have

allowed

the

most

extreme

animal

rights

protesters

to

creep

in

and

frame

the

issue

as

one

of

fraud

and

hatred.

We

have

persisted

in

our

belief

that

a

knowledgeable

public

would

consent

to

the

importance of animal research for public health. Perhaps we have been mistaken in not responding

to the emotional tone of the argument. Perhaps we should have responded to those sad slogans and

posters of animals by waving equally sad posters of children dying of cancer or external wounds.

我们这些从事医学研究的 人也显得令人难以置信的冷漠。

我们允许最极端的动物权利活动家

渐渐侵入，

任凭他们把此类研究诬陷为

“

动物欺诈

”

和对动物的仇恨。我们一直坚信，有知识

的公众会赞同动物研究对公众健康的重要性。

也许我们的错误是没有对 这场争论的感性基调

作出反应。

也许我们早应该挥动着儿童死于 癌症或外伤的同样令人伤心的海报，

来回应那些

关于动物受害的 伤感标语及海报。

4 In the animal rights forum, much is made of the volume of pain these animals experience in the

name of medical science. Activists deny that we are trying to help and say it is evidence of our evil

1

and cruel nature. A more reasonable argument, however, can be advanced in our defense. Life is

often cruel to animals and human beings. Teenagers are flung from trucks and suffer severe head

injuries.

Young

children

barely

able

to

walk

find

themselves

at

the

bottom

of

swimming

pools

while a parent is occupied with something else. From everyday germs to gang violence, no life is

free of pain. Physicians hoping to relieve the eternal suffering of these tragedies have only three

choices: 1) create an animal model of the problem to understand the process and test new therapies;

2)

experiment

on

human

beings

(some

experiments

will

succeed,

most

will

fail);

or

3)

leave

medical knowledge static, hoping that accidental discoveries will lead us forward.

动物权利论坛大肆宣扬我们如何以医学的名 义使这些动物经受巨大的痛苦。

动物权利活动家

们否认我们正在 努力帮助人类，

并说这是我们邪恶和残忍本性的证据。

然而，< /p>

一个更合理的

论点可用来为我们进行辩护。

生活往往对动物和人类都是残酷的。

青少年被甩到卡车外，

导

致头部严重受伤。

还不太会走路的孩子们溺水沉到游泳池底部时 ，

他们的家长正忙于其他事

务。

从常见 的的细菌侵害到帮派的暴力，

没有谁能不受伤害。

医生们希望能 永远减轻这些悲

剧带给人们身体上的痛苦，他们只有三个选择：

1

）用动物做实验，以了解整个医疗过程和

测试新的疗法

;

2

）进行人体实验（一些实验会成功，大 多数会失败）

;

3

）让对医疗知识的

了解处于停滞状态，希望偶然的发现会带领我们向前。

5 Some animal rights activists would suggest an optional fourth choice, claiming that computer

models can create animal experiments, thus omitting actual experiments. Computers can imitate

the effects of well

-

understood principles on complex systems, as in the application of the laws of

physics

to

airplane

and

automobile

design.

However,

when

the

principles

themselves

are

in

question, as is the case with the complex biological systems of human life under study, computer

modeling alone is of little value.

一些动物权利活动家会提出第四个选项，

他们声称计算机可以模拟动物实验，

这样就可省去

真实的实验过程。

计算机可以模拟一些为人所熟知的原理在复杂系统中的应用效果，

就如物

理规律在飞机和汽车设计中的应用那样。

然而，

当原理本身有问题时，

就跟正处于研究阶段

的复杂的生物系统的情况一样，仅靠计算机模拟成效甚微。

6 One of the terrifying effects of arresting the use of animals in medical research is that the impact

will

not

be

felt

for

years

or

even

decades.

Drugs

to

cure

infection

will

remain

undiscovered,

surgical and diagnostic techniques will remain undeveloped, and fundamental biological processes

that might have been understood will remain mysteries. There is the danger that quick decisions

by well

-

meaning politicians will create resolution to diplomatically satisfy the small minority of

loud

protestors

while

the

consequences

and

damaging

impact

of

those

decisions

will

not

be

apparent until long after.

阻止用动物来进行医学 研究的可怕后果之一是，

其影响要到几年甚至几十年后才能被人知晓：

< br>治愈感染的新药物将无法被发现，

外科手术和诊断技术将得不到发展，