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| 美文欣赏－盐咖啡 The Salty Coffee
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The Salty Coffee
盐咖啡
He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him.
At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised but due to being polite, she promised. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, and she thought to herself, "Please, let me go home..."
Suddenly he asked the waiter, "Would you please give me some salt? I'd like to put it in my coffee." Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously, "Why you have this hobby?" He replied, "When I was a little boy, I lived near the sea, I liked playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who are still living there." While saying that tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched. That's his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart. A man who can tell out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home... Then she also started to speak, spoke about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family.
That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story. They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who meets all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful. He was such a good person but she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee! Then the story was just like every beautiful love story, the princess married to the prince, and then they were living the happy life... And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that's the way he liked it.
After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said, "My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life's lie. This was the only lie I said to you － the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything... Now I'm dying, I afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth, I don't like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste... But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life! Since I knew you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life. If I can live for the second time, still want to know you and have you for my whole life, even though I have to drink the salty coffee again."
Her tears made the letter totally wet. Someday, someone asked her, "What's the taste of salty coffee?" She replied, "It's sweet."
Pass this to everyone because love is not to forget but to forgive, not to see but understand, not to hear but to listen, not to let go but HOLD ON!!!
在一个舞会上他遇见她，她那么出众，许多男孩追求她。他却这么普通，没人注意他。
舞会结束后，他邀请她去喝咖啡，她有些惊奇，但，出于礼貌，还是答应了他。他们坐在一家典雅的咖啡厅，他非常紧张，她却并不觉得浪漫，一心在想，" 请让我回家吧……"
突然他对服务员说，"请给我一点盐好吗? 我要把它加在我的咖啡里。" 咖啡厅里每个人都惊奇地看着他。他的脸红了，却很镇静。他把盐放入咖啡中，并喝咖啡。她好奇地问他，"你怎么有这样的嗜好?" 他回答，" 小时候我住得离大海很近，我喜欢在海里玩，感觉大海的滋味，就象这盐咖啡的味道。现在，每当我喝盐咖啡，我总是想起我的童年，我的故乡，我思念我依然生活在那里的父母。" 他说到这些，眼泪涌了出来。她深深地感动了，
那是发自他心底的真情一个能够说出思乡病的男人，一定是一个爱家，对家有责任感的人……随后，她也开始说起自己遥远的家乡，她的童年，她的家庭。
那真是一次美好的约会，也是他们故事的一个美丽开端。从那以后，他们继续约会。她发现事实上他是一个能满足她要求的男人：他善良，善于忍受，给人以温暖，又心细。他真是一个好人，她有时非常思念起他来! 真要谢谢他的盐咖啡!
后来，正像每一个美丽的爱情故事，这个公主嫁给了这个王子。他们过着幸福的生活……并且，每次为他煮咖啡，她都加上盐，因为他喜欢。
四十年后他去世了，留给她一封信，信中写道，"亲爱的，请原谅我。原谅我这说了一生的谎言。这是我对你唯一撒谎的一次---就是盐咖啡。记得第一次约会吗，那时我太紧张了，其实我想要一些糖，但却说成了盐。当时我觉得难以改口，只好顺其自然，却怎么也没想到那会是我们交往的开始! 在后来有许多次，我都想告诉你事实真相，但是我有点害怕，因为答应过你事事要说真话。现在我快要去了，我不怕了。所以告诉你，我不喜欢盐咖啡，那味道真是差极了……但是我却喝了一生。自从我认识你，为你做的事，我从不后悔。在我一生中，拥有你是我最大的幸福。如果我能活第二回，我仍想与你结识，并和你在一起，即使再让我喝盐咖啡。"
她的泪水把信纸全弄湿了。后来一天，有人问起她，"盐咖啡味道怎样？""味道好极了！" 她回答。
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| 想笑就笑－谁是第一个男人？
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A teacher said to her class：
"Who was the first man？"
"George Washington，"a little boy shouted promptly．
"How do you make out that George Washington was the first man？"asked the teacher，smiling indulgently．
"Because，"said the little boy，"he was first in war，first in peace，and first in the hearts of his countrymen．"
But at this point a larger boy held up his hand．
"Well，" said the teacher to him，"who do you think was the first man？"
"I don't know what his name was，"said the larger boy，"but I know it wasn't George Washington，ma'am，because the history book says George Washington married a widow，so，of course，there must have been a man ahead of him．"
有个老师问班上的学生：
"谁是第一个男人？"
"乔治?华盛顿，"一个小男孩当即叫道。
"你怎么知道乔治?华盛顿是第一个男人呢？"老师问道，宽容地微笑着。
小男孩说："因为他是战时第一，和时第一，国人心中第一。"
这时一个大点儿的男孩举起手来。
"那么，"老师对他说，"你认为谁是第一个男人呢？"
"我不知道他的名字，"大点儿的男孩说，"但我知道不是乔治?华盛顿，老师。因为历史书上说，乔治?华盛顿娶了一个寡妇，所以在他前面肯定还有一个男人。"
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| 双语故事－白雪公主
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Snow-white
Once there was a Queen. She was sitting at the window. There was snow outside in the garden-snow on the hill and in the lane, snow on the hunts and on the trees: all things were white with snow.
The Queen was making a coat for a little child. She said, "I want my child to be white as this cloth, white as the snow. And I shall call her Snow-white."
Some days after that the Queen had a child. The child was white as snow. The Queen called her Snow-white.
But the Queen was very ill, and after some days she died. Snow-white lived, and was a very happy and beautiful child.
One year after that, the King married another Queen. The new Queen was very beautiful; but she was not a good woman.
A wizard had given this Queen a glass. The glass could speak. It was on the wall in the Queen's room. Every day the queen looked in the glass to see how beautiful she was. As she looked in the glass, she asked: "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" And the glass spoke and said: "The Queen is most beautiful of all."
Year went by. Snow-white grew up and became a little girl. every day the Queen looked in the glass and said, "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" And the glass said, "Snow-white is most beautiful of all."
When the Queen heard this, she was very angry. She said, "Snow-white is not more beautiful than I am. There is no one who is more beautiful than I am."
Then the Queen sat on her bed and cried.
After one hour the Queen went out of her room. She called one of the servants, and said, "Take Snow-white into the forest and kill her."
The servant took Snow-white to the forest, but he did not kill her, because she was so beautiful and so good. He said, "I shall not kill you; but do not go to the King's house, because the Queen is angry and she will see you. If the Queen sees you, she will make some other man kill you. Wait here in the forest; some friends will help you." Then he went away.
Poor Snow-white sat at the foot of a tree and cried. Then she saw that night was coming. She said, "I will not cry. I will find some house where I can sleep tonight. I cannot wait here: the bears will eat me."
She went far into the forest. Then she saw a little hut. She opened the door of the hut, and went in. In the hut she saw seven little beds. There was a table, and on the table there were seven little loaves and seven little glasses. She ate one of the loaves. Then she said, "I want some water to drink." So she drank some water out of one of the glasses. Then she fell asleep on one of the seven little beds.
The hut was the home of seven Little Men. When it was night, the seven Little Men came to the hut. Each Little Man had a big beard, and a little blue coat. Each Little Man came into the hut, and took his little lamp. Then each Little Man sat down, and ate his little loaf, and drank his little glass of water.
But one Little Man said, "Someone has eaten my little loaf." And another Little Man said, "Someone has drunk my little glass of water." Then the seven Little Men went to bed, but one Little Man said, "Someone is sleeping on my little bed." All the seven Little Men came to look at Snow-white as she slept on the Little Men's bed. They said, "She is very beautiful."
Snow-white awoke, and saw the seven Little Men with their big beards standing near her bed. She was afraid. The Little men said, "Do not be afraid. We are your friends. Tell us how you came here." Snow-white said, "I will tell you." Then she told them her story.
They said, "Do not be afraid. Live here with us. But see that the door shut when we are not in the house with you. Do not go out. If you go out, the bad Queen will find you. Then she will know that you are not dead, and will tell someone to kill you." So Snow-white lived in the hut with the seven Little Men.
After some days Snow-white went into the garden. One of the Queen's servants was going through the forest, and he saw her. He went and told the Queen, "Snow-white is in a hut in the forest." The Queen was very angry when she heard that Snow-white was not dead.
The Queen took an apple. She made a hole in the red side of the apple, and put some powder into the hole. Then she put on old clothes and went to the hut. She called, "Is any one there?" Snow-white opened the door, and came out to her. The Queen said, "I have some pretty apples. Eat one of my pretty apples." Snow-white took the apple and said, "Is it good?" The Queen said, "See, I will eat this white side of the apple; you eat the red side. Then you will know that it is good."
Snow-white ate the red side of the apple. When the powder was in her mouth, she fell down dead. The Queen went back to her house. She went into her room. she looked into the glass and said, "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" The glass said, "The Queen is most beautiful of all." Then the Queen know that Snow-white was dead.
The Little Men came back to the hut. When they saw that Snow-white was dead, the poor Little Men cried. Then they put Snow-white in a box made of glass. They took the glass box to a hill and put it there, and said, "Everyone who goes by will see how beautiful she was." Then each Little Man put one white flower on the box, and they went away.
Just as they were going away, a Prince came by. He saw the glass box and said, "What is that?" Then he saw Snow-white in the box. He said, "She was very beautiful: but do not put her there. There is a hall in the garden of my father's house. It is all made of white stone. We will take the glass box and put it in the hall of beautiful white stone."
The Little Men said, "Take her." Then the Prince told his servants to take up the box. They took up the box. Just then one of the servants fell down. The box fell, and Snow-white fell with the box. The bit of apple fell out of her mouth: she awoke, and sat up, and said, "Where am I?"
The Prince said, "You are with me. I never saw anyone as beautiful as you. Come with me and be my Queen."
The Prince married Snow-white, and she became his Queen.
A man went and told this to the bad Queen. When she heard it she was so angry that she fell down dead.
Snow-white lived and was very happy ever after. And the Little Men came to see her every year.
I. Translation for Reference(参考译文)
白雪公主
从前，有一个王后，她坐在窗户旁。窗外的花园里积满了雪，山上是雪，小路上是雪，树上和屋顶上也积着雪，万物一片白茫茫。她手中拿着些布和一枚针，她手中的不就像雪一样洁白。王后正在为小孩做一件上衣，她说："我想我的孩子能够像这布一样白，想雪一样白，我要叫她'白雪公主'。"
几天之后，王后生了个小孩，这个孩子白得像雪一样，王后给她取名为"白雪公主"。但是，王后得了重病，几天以后就去世了。白雪公主活了下来，她是一个十分幸福和美丽的孩子。
王后去世一年以后，国王又娶了一位王后。新王后十分漂亮，但是，她不是一个善良的女人。一个巫师给了新王后一面镜子，这面镜子会说话，它挂在王后房间的墙上，每天王后照着镜子，欣赏自己多么漂亮。当她照镜子的时候，她问："告诉我，墙上的魔镜，谁是世界上最漂亮的人？"于是魔镜开口说道："王后是世界上最漂亮的。"
过了数年，白雪公主长成大人了。当白雪公主是一个年轻姑娘时，有一天，王后照着镜子说："告诉我，墙上的魔镜，谁是世界上最漂亮的？"魔镜说："白雪公主是世界上最漂亮的。"
当王后听到这些话时，非常恼怒，她说："白雪公主没有我漂亮，没有一个人比我更漂亮。"然后，王后坐在床上哭了。一小时后，王后从她的房间走出来，她叫来一个仆人说："把白雪公主带到森林中杀掉。"
仆人带着白雪公主到了森林，但他没有杀死她，因为她太美丽太善良了。他说："我不会杀死你的，但是，你不能回王宫，因为，王后很生气，她会看到你的。如果王后发现你，她会让别人杀死你的。你就呆在森林里，会有朋友来帮助你的。"然后，他走了。
可怜的白雪公主坐在一棵树底下哭了，这时，她看到天快黑了，她说："我不哭了，我要找所房子今晚好睡觉，我不能呆在这儿了，熊会吃了我的。"她往森林深处走去，这时，她发现了一座小屋，她打开小屋的门，走了进去。在小屋里，她看到七张小床，还有一张桌子，桌子上有七块小面包和七个小杯子。她吃了其中一块面包，然后说："我想喝点水。"于是，她又喝了一个杯子中的一些水。之后，她躺在一张小床上睡着了。
这座小屋是七个小矮人的家。当天黑下来的时候，七个小矮人回到小屋。每个小矮人都留着一副大胡子，穿一件小蓝上衣。小矮人进了小屋，每个人都点上他们的小灯，然后，小矮人都坐下，开始吃面包，喝小杯里的水。
但是，一个小矮人说："有人把我小面包吃了。"另一个小矮人说："有人把我的小杯子里的水喝了。"然后，七个小矮人去睡觉。可是一个小矮人说："有人正睡在我的小床上。"七个小矮人都过来看睡在小矮人床上的白雪公主。他们说："她真漂亮。"
白雪公主醒了，发现七个留着大胡子的小矮人正站在她床旁，她很害怕。小矮人们说："别害怕，我们是你的好朋友，告诉我们你是怎么来这儿的。"白雪公主说："我告诉你们。"接着她就给他们讲述了自己的经历。他们说："不要害怕。就在这儿和我们住在一起，但是，我们不在家的时候，你一定要关上门，千万别出去。如果你出去了，坏王后会发现你，这样，她知道你没有死，会让人来杀死你。"于是，白雪公主和七个小矮人在这座小屋里生活着。
几天以后，白雪公主去了一趟花园。王后的一个仆人正经过这片森林，他发现了阿。他回去告诉了王后："白雪公主在森林的一座小屋里。"王后听说白雪公主没有死，十分恼火。
王后拿来一个苹果，她在苹果红的一边挖了一个洞，把一些毒的粉末放在这个洞里。然后，她穿上一身旧衣服，去了小屋。她喊："屋里有人吗？"白雪公主打开门，出来见她。王后说："我有一些漂亮的苹果，吃一个尝尝吧？"白雪公主拿着苹果说："这好吃吗？"王后说："瞧，我吃苹果白的一半，你吃红的一半，你会知道它味道不错。"白雪公主吃了苹果红的一半，当粉末进入她嘴里时，她倒下去死了。
王后回到家，进了自己的房间，对着镜子说："告诉我，墙上的魔镜，谁是世界上最漂亮的。"魔镜说："王后是世界上最漂亮的。"于是，王后知道白雪公主已经死了。
小矮人们回到小屋，发现白雪公主死了。可怜的小矮人们全都哭了。然后，他们把白雪公主放进玻璃棺材里，并把它抬到山坡上，安放在那里，说："每位经过这里的人都会看见她是多么美丽。"接着每个小矮人在棺材上放了一朵白花，然后离开了。
他们刚刚要离开，一位王子从此经过，他看着玻璃棺材说："那是什么？"这时，他发现白雪公主躺在里面，他说："她太美丽了，把能把她放在这里，在父亲的王宫里有一座大厅，整个大厅都是用白石头砌成，我们把玻璃棺材搬到那所漂亮的白石大厅里。"小矮人们说："抬走她吧。"
然后，王子告诉他的仆人抬起棺材。他们抬起它时，不巧一个仆人跌倒了。把棺材也摔到地上，白雪公主随同棺材跌了下来，那块苹果从她嘴里掉了出来，她醒了过来，坐起来说："我这是在哪儿？"王子说："你跟我在一起，我从来没有见过一位像你这么美丽的人，跟我来，做我的王后吧。"王子和白雪公主结婚了，她成了王后。
一个人去把这些消息告诉了坏王后，当她听到这些，气得倒下死去了。从那以后，白雪公主一直生活得很幸福。每年小矮人们都来看她。
II. Exercise Choose the correct answer to the following questions.
1. The glass which the Queen got from a wizard _______.
A.could make the Queen beautiful
B.could tell who was the most beautiful of all
C.was on the wall of the King's room
D.could make the Queen happy
2. When the Queen heard she wasn't the most beautiful of all, she _______.
A.became very angry at this
B.didn't want to believe this
C.decided to kill Snow-white
D.All of the above.
3. The servant didn't kill Snow-white, because _______.
A.she was kind and beautiful
B.he knew that the Queen will send another person to kill Snow-white
C.the Queen told him to do so
D.he wanted bears to eat her
4. Why didn't Snow-white go out of the forest?
A.because she lost her way
B.because the Queen would find and kill her if she did so
C.she loved seven Little Men
D.she could enjoy herself in the forest
5. How did the Queen know that Snow-white was still alive?
A.She knew it from her glass.
B.She knew it from one of her servants.
C.She knew it from the seven Little Men.
D.She knew it by herself.
6. What did the Queen do after knowing that Snow-white was alive?
A.She decided to kill her in person.
B.She decided to send a servant to kill her.
C.She decided to send her some pretty apples.
D.None of the above.
7. The Queen knew the death of Snow-white from _______.
A.a servant
B.the seven Little Men
C.her glass
D.the Prince
8. From the story, we know that those Little Men put _______ white flowers on Snow-white's box in total.
A.one
B.seven
C.more than seven
D.countless
9. What happened to Snow-white after her death?
A.She was put into a box and was buried by the seven Little Men .
B.A Prince took her into his hall of beautiful white stones.
C.She came back to life and married the Prince.
D.Both A and C.
10. _______ made the bad Queen dead at last.
A.The Prince
B.Her anger
C.Her envy
D.h B and C
III. New Words and Expressions 生词和词组
wizard n. 男巫
hut n. 茅舍，小屋
Key to Exercise(练习答案)
1:B 2:D 3:A 4:B 5:B 6:A 7:A 8:B 9:C 10:D
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| 休闲娱乐－自制简单圣诞饮料
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芬兰、瑞典这些北欧国家圣诞聚会中一般喜欢饮用一种称作Glogg的甜酒，以红酒为底料，加入些许糖、桂皮、丁香、杏仁和葡萄干，饮用时一般加热。喝到杏仁的人，将成为最幸运的人--
Material
1 bottle of red wine
2-3 tablespoons Madeira (optional)
1/2 cup raw sugar, or to taste
1/3 cup raisins
1-2 sticks cinnamon
5-6 whole cloves
peelings of orange
1/4 cup blanched, slivered almonds
1/4 cup vodka to spike it up (optional)
Direction
In a large kettle, combine all the ingredients except the vodka. Heat slowly, until the drink is steaming hot. Stir every now and then, and taste with a spoon whenever you feel like it. Do not let the drink get even close to boiling. Just keep it warm. Before serving, add vodka if you wish.
原料
1瓶红酒
2-3大汤勺Madeira白葡萄酒（可选）
半杯粗糖，按口味
1/3杯葡萄干
1到2块肉桂
5到6颗丁香
剥好的橘子皮
1/4杯切碎的白杏仁
1/4杯伏特加酒（可选）
做法
在一个大些的壶中，加入除伏特加酒以外的所有原料。小火慢慢加热，直至饮料有蒸汽冒出。间或搅动，用小勺品尝是不是你所希望的效果。不要让饮料太热以致于沸腾。只是保持温热就可以了。如果需要，酒上桌之前再加入伏特加酒。
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| 科普知识－克隆猪有望成为人体器官移植的供应者
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Cloned pigs -- the potential organ donors
Five cloned piglets, genetically modified so that their organs are much less likely to be rejected by a human donor recipient, have been born in the US.
More than 62,000 people in the US alone are waiting to receive donated hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys and pancreases. The number of human donors falls far short of demand. Pig organs are of a similar size to human organs, and some scientists hope they might be used to help meet the shortfall. But previous attempts to transplant unaltered pig tissue into humans have failed, due to immune rejection of the tissue.
克隆猪有望成为人体器官移植的供应者
在美国已诞生了5只基因改良的克隆小猪,这使得它们的器官在植入人体时产生排异反应的可能性大为缩小。
仅仅在美国就有6.2万多人在等待被捐献出的心脏、肺、肝脏、肾脏和胰脏,器官捐献者的人数远远满足不了要求。猪的器官大小与人的器官相似,一些科学家希望它们可用于弥补器官短缺问题。但是,由于种间组织免疫系统的相互排异反应,从前那些用未经改良的猪器官做的移植试验都失败了。
The five piglets, born on Christmas Day, lack a gene for an enzyme that adds a sugar to the surface of pig cells. The sugar would trigger a patient's immune system into launching an immediate attack.
"This advance provides a near-time solution for overcoming the shortage of human organs for transplants, as well as insulin-producing cells to cure diabetes," says David Ayares, vice president of research at PPL Therapeutics, US division, where the pigs were created. " This is the key gene for overcoming the early stage of rejection."
圣诞节出生的这5只小猪,缺少一种使猪的细胞表面加上某种糖类物质的酶的基因。正是这种糖引发病人的免疫系统立即产生免疫排异反应。
培育出这些小猪的PPL医疗公司美国分部的研究项目副总裁大卫?阿亚里斯说:"这项科研进展及时解决了目前所面临的人体器官移植来源短缺问题,以及治疗糖尿病所需的生产胰岛素的细胞。这是个解决早期排异反应的关键基因。"
However, scientists warn that much more work is necessary before organs from copies of the pigs could be transplanted into humans. Human genes will need to be added, to prevent rejection of the organ in the long-term. There are also conerns that pig viruses could infect organ recipients.
Cloning techniques were vital to the production of the pigs. Genes can only be knocked out in a single cell. Cloning of these single cells then allowed the creation of a whole animal in which the gene was knocked out in every cell. But the PPL researchers have succeeded in knocking out only one copy of the gene for the enzyme, called alpha 1，3 galactosyl transferase. The team will now attempt to knock out both copies of the gene.
但是,科学家们提醒说,在由克隆猪所提供的器官能够顺利植入人体以前,还有很多必需的工作要做。可能会需要再加上人体的基因以使这些器官能够长期免于排异反应。猪的病毒对接受器官的人的感染,也是个值得关注的问题。
克隆技术是培育这些猪的关键。基因的去除只有在单个细胞中才能进行。克隆这些单细胞然后再将其培育成一只完整的动物,这样动物身上的每个细胞中的这种基因就都被去除了。但是,PPL医疗公司的研究人员只是成功地去除了产生这种叫α?1,3半乳糖转移酶的基因的一个副本。他们在试图将这个基因的两个副本都去除。
"There will also be other genes we will incorporate into our program," Ayares says. "We don't think that one gene is going to produce an organ that's going to be the end-all for transplantation. We're going to have to add two to three human genes as well."
The team will also conduct tests to investigate whether so-called porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVS)from the pigs could infect human cells in culture. But Ayares hopes that organs created from PPL pigs could be transplanted into patients within five years.
"But although a lot of the stem cell work is very exciting, we're still very far off being able to grow an organ in a culture dish," says Julia Greenstein of Immerge Bio Therapeutics in Charlestown, US, who is working on creating similar knock-out pigs with researchers at the University of Missouri.
阿亚里斯说:"我们的项目也会包括其他基因,我们觉得掌握一个基因培育的器官并不能彻底解决器官移植面临的所有问题。我们得再加入两到三个人类基因的研究。"
该小组还将通过实验验证是否猪身上的内生性逆转滤过性病毒(一种致癌病毒)会在移植培育过程中感染到人身上。但阿亚里斯希望在5年内PPL医疗公司培育的器官能够被移植到人身上。
就职美国查尔斯城浸没生物医疗公司的朱利娅?格林斯坦,正在密苏里大学和同事们从事着类似的研究，即培育去除某种基因的小猪。她说:"尽管干细胞研究的许多工作令人非常激动,但在培养器中成功地培育出器官还为时过早。
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| 奥运知识－橄榄枝棕榈叶松枝
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At the modern Olympic Games, the first, second and third - placed athletes are rewarded, respectively, by gold, silver and bronze medals. At the Panhellenic Games, there was only one winner whose prize was a wreath or crown of leaves.
At each of the venues, the crowns were made with different types of leaves: - At Olympia, it was a wild olive leaf crown. At Delphi, a laurel crown. - At Corinth, a pine crown. - At Nemea, a wild celery crown.
As well as a crown, the winner received a red woollen ribbon, the taenia. A famous statue by the sculptor Polycletus (dating from the second half of the 5th century BC) shows a victor tying the ribbon around his head. The statue is called Diadurnenos and there is a bronze copy of it at the entrance to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
Finally, the winner often held a palm frond, another symbol of vicory.
重点词汇
Olympia, Delphi, Corinth, Nemea （古希腊地名）奥林匹亚，德尔菲，科林斯，尼米亚（它们都是泛希腊运动会的举办地，对冠军的奖励是不同的头冠）
Panhellenic a. （古代）泛希腊的
wreath n. 花圈, 花冠
venue n. 会议地点, 比赛地点
olive n. 橄榄树
laurel n. 月桂树
pine n. 松树
taenia n. 绑头部的带或绳
Lausanne n. 洛桑（瑞士城市）
palm n. 棕榈, (象征胜利的)棕榈叶
frond n. 叶
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| 诗歌赏析－莎士比亚十四行诗（Sonnet 81 ）
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Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.
Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen--
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
无论我将活着为你写墓志铭，
或你未亡而我已在地下腐朽，
纵使我已被遗忘得一干二净，
死神将不能把你的忆念夺走。
你的名字将从这诗里得永生，
虽然我，一去，对人间便等于死；
大地只能够给我一座乱葬坟，
而你却将长埋在人们眼睛里。
我这些小诗便是你的纪念碑，
未来的眼睛固然要百读不厌，
未来的舌头也将要传诵不衰，
当现在呼吸的人已瞑目长眠。
这强劲的笔将使你活在生气
最蓬勃的地方，在人们的嘴里。
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| 总统演讲Richard M. Nixon - Resigning the Presidency
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Good evening. This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this Nation. Each time I have done so to discuss with you some matter that I believe affected the national interest.
In all the decisions I have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the Nation. Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.
In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort. As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion, that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future.
But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served, and there is no longer a need for the process to be prolonged.
I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so. But the interest of the Nation must always come before any personal considerations.
From the discussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders, I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the Nation would require.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interest of America first.
America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.
To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home.
Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.
As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next 2 1/2 years. But in turning over direction of the Government to Vice President Ford, I know, as I told the Nation when I nominated him for that office 10 months ago, that the leadership of America will be in good hands.
In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow and, therefore, of the understanding, the patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans.
As he assumes that responsibility, he will deserve the help and the support of all of us. As we look to the future, the first essential is to begin healing the wounds of this Nation, to put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us, and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people.
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.
I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision. I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong, and some were wrong, they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the Nation.
To those who have stood with me during these past difficult months, to my family, my friends, to many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right, I will be eternally grateful for your support.
And to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let me say I leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me, because all of us, in the final analysis, have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ.
So, let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping our new President succeed for the benefit of all Americans.
I shall leave this office with regret at not completing my term, but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your President for the past 5 1/2 years. These years have been a momentous time in the history of our Nation and the world. They have been a time of achievement in which we can all be proud, achievements that represent the shared efforts of the Administration, the Congress, and the people.
But the challenges ahead are equally great, and they, too, will require the support and the efforts of the Congress and the people working in cooperation with the new Administration.
We have ended America's longest war, but in the work of securing a lasting peace in the world, the goals ahead are even more far-reaching and more difficult. We must complete a structure of peace so that it will be said of this generation, our generation of Americans, by the people of all nations, not only that we ended one war but that we prevented future wars.
We have unlocked the doors that for a quarter of a century stood between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
We must now ensure that the one quarter of the world's people who live in the People's Republic of China will be and remain not our enemies but our friends.
In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy for nearly 20 years, now look on us as their friends. We must continue to build on that friendship so that peace can settle at last over the Middle East and so that the cradle of civilization will not become its grave.
Together with the Soviet Union we have made the crucial breakthroughs that have begun the process of limiting nuclear arms. But we must set as our goal not just limiting but reducing and finally destroying these terrible weapons so that they cannot destroy civilization and so that the threat of nuclear war will no longer hang over the world and the people.
We have opened the new relation with the Soviet Union. We must continue to develop and expand that new relationship so that the two strongest nations of the world will live together in cooperation rather than confrontation.
Around the world, in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, in the Middle East, there are millions of people who live in terrible poverty, even starvation. We must keep as our goal turning away from production for war and expanding production for peace so that people everywhere on this earth can at last look forward in their children's time, if not in our own time, to having the necessities for a decent life.
Here in America, we are fortunate that most of our people have not only the blessings of liberty but also the means to live full and good and, by the world's standards, even abundant lives. We must press on, however, toward a goal of not only more and better jobs but of full opportunity for every American and of what we are striving so hard right now to achieve, prosperity without inflation.
For more than a quarter of a century in public life I have shared in the turbulent history of this era. I have fought for what I believed in. I have tried to the best of my ability to discharge those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me.
Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, "whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."
I pledge to you tonight that as long as I have a breath of life in my body, I shall continue in that spirit. I shall continue to work for the great causes to which I have been dedicated throughout my years as a Congressman, a Senator, a Vice President, and President, the cause of peace not just for America but among all nations, prosperity, justice, and opportunity for all of our people.
There is one cause above all to which I have been devoted and to which I shall always be devoted for as long as I live.
When I first took the oath of office as President 5 1/2 years ago, I made this sacred commitment, to "consecrate my office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can summon to the cause of peace among nations."
I have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge. As a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not only for the people of America but for the people of all nations, and that all of our children have a better chance than before of living in peace rather than dying in war.
This, more than anything, is what I hoped to achieve when I sought the Presidency. This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.
To have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every American. In leaving it, I do so with this prayer: May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.
President Richard Nixon - August 8, 1974
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| 学习技巧－通过阅读学词汇CET-6
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Unit one
Elementary Schools in early America
What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America -- breakthroughs such as the telegraph, the steamboat and the weaving machine?
Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country's excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological.
Why mention the elementary schools? Because thanks to these schools our early mechanics, especially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states, were generally literate and at home in arithmetic and in some aspects of geometry and trigonometry.
Acute foreign observers related american adaptiveness and inventiveness to this educational advantage. As a member of a British commission visiting here in 1853 reported, "With a mind prepared by thorough school discipline, the American boy develops rapidly into the skilled workman."
A further stimulus to invention came from the "premium" system, which preceded our patent system and for years ran parallel with it. This approach, originated abroad, offered inventors medals, cash prizes and other incentives.
In the United States, multitudes of premiums for new devices were awarded at country fairs and at the industrial fairs in major cities. Americans flocked to these fairs to admire the new machines and thus to renew their faith in the beneficence of technological advance.
Given this optimistic approach to technological innovation, the American worker took readily to that special kind of nonverbal thinking required in mechanical technology. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, "A technologist thinks about objects that cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process. The
designer and the inventor are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist."
This nonverbal "spatial" thinking can be just as creative as painting and writing. robert fulton once wrote, "The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. , like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea."
When all these shaping forces -- schools, open attitudes, the premium system, a genius for spatial thinking -- interacted with one another on the rich U.S. mainland, they produced that american characteristic, emulation. Today that word implies mere imitation. But in earlier times it meant a friendly but competitive striving for fame and excellence.
invention n. 1.发明,发明物 2.捏造,虚构
inventor n.发明家,发明者
[联想词]
inventory n.1.详细目录 2.存货清单
breakthhrough n. 1.突围,突破 2.重大成就,惊人发现
[联想词]
breakdown n. 1.垮台,破裂 2.衰竭,衰弱 3.损坏,故障 4.分类
premium n. 1.保险金 2.额外费用 3. 奖品,赠品,额外津贴
a. 1.高级的,优质的 2.售价高的
[联想词]
subsidy n. 津贴,补贴
verbal a. 1.口头的 2.用言辞的,用文字的
[联想词]
vocal a. 发声的,嗓音的
spatial a. 空间的,与空间有关的
lever n. 1.杠杆 2.途径,工具,手段
vt. 撬动,撬起
wedge n.楔(子) vt. 把...楔入,塞入
[联想词]
groove n. 沟,槽
hinge n. 铰链
interact vi. 相互作用,相互影响
emulation n. 1.竞赛,竞争 2.仿效,仿真
imitation n. 1.模仿 2.仿制,仿制品 3.赝品
strive vi. 努力,奋斗,力求
sculpture n.1.雕刻,雕塑 2.雕刻作品,雕塑品
[联想词]
carve vt. 1.切,把...切碎 2.雕刻,刻
engrave vt. 1.在...上雕刻 2.使铭记,使牢记
statue n. 雕像,塑像
bust n. 1.胸像,半身像 2.胸部,胸围
marble n. 1.大理石
diploma n. 毕业文凭,毕业证书,资格证书
[联想词]
diplomat n. 1.外交官,外交家 2.有交际手段的人,圆滑的人
perpetual a. 1.永久的,永恒的,长期的 2.无休止的,没完没了的
literacy n.识字,有文化,读写能力
literate a.1.有读写能力的 2.有文化修养的
stimulus n. 1.促进 2.刺激
[联想词]
provocation n. 1.挑衅,挑拨 2.刺激,激怒
provocative a. 1.挑衅的,煽动的 2.刺激的
precede vt. 在...之前,先于
precedent n. 1.先例,范例,判例 2.惯例
patent n.专利,专利权
a.专利(权)的,受专利保护的
vt.得到...的专利权
originate vi. 起源于,来自,产生
vt.创造,创始,开创
[联想词]
commence v.开始
incentive n.刺激,鼓励
multitude n. 1.大量,许多 2.大众,民众
ambiguous a.引起歧义的,模式棱两可的,含糊不清的
[联想词]
indefinite a. 1.不明确的,含糊的 2.无限期的
exdplicit a. 1.明确的,明晰的;详述的 2.直言的,毫不隐瞒的,露骨的
manipulate vt. 1.操纵,控制,影响 2.操作,使用
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