译林版牛津高中英语(必修5):Unit3 Science and nature-Reading(3)

Dear Editor, I believe that human cloning¹ is wrong. If we toy with nature, we will have to deal with the consequences.

亲爱的编辑，我坚信克隆人类是错误的。如果我们干涉了自然，我们就得承受结果。

Who knows what could happen?

谁知道会发生什么？

Human life would just become a crop to be harvested or a product for sale.

人类生命只会成为待收割的庄稼或是出售的商品。

The human race is using up the Earth's natural wealth.

人类正在将地球上的自然资源消耗光。

We should be having fewer babies in order to reduce the Earth's population, not cloning more.

我们应该减少婴儿的出生数量以减少地球上的人口，而不是克隆更多。

I feel sorry for the lady who cannot have a baby, but I would like to point out that there are many children in the world with no parents,

我对那些不能生育的女士感到遗憾，但是我要指出世界上有很多无父母的孩子，

who would be delighted to have a mother.

他们会很高兴有个妈妈。

Pauline Carter

波林·卡特尔

1 cloning   

n.无性（繁殖）系化，纯系化v.（使某物）无性繁殖( clone的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The idea of cloning extinct life forms still belongs to science fiction. 克隆已经灭绝的生物的想法仍旧只限于科幻小说中。 来自辞典例句
• Gene cloning provides a means of purifying and propagating specific DNA segments. 基因克隆化提供了一种纯化和扩增特定DNA片段的方法。 来自辞典例句