公众人物毕业演讲第130期:2013年克林顿在霍华德大学(9)

 　　Now, in addition of that we now know that it is scientifically true

　　此外 有一个铁的事实我们都已经知道了

　　I spent three billion dollars of your money to finish the sequencing of human genome

　　就是我花了你们三十亿美元 用来完成人类基因测序

　　Now all the people in the sciences will tell you what has happened for that, it's the best money we have spended

　　现在 所有科学界的人们都会告诉你因此发生了什么 那是我们花过最值得的一笔钱

　　It has generated massive economic activity already given us the variances² in the gene¹ make the young women in high risk of breast cancer if they have them

　　它已经产生了巨大的经济效应 让我们了解了增加年轻女性 患乳腺癌风险的基因差异

　　We've learned the patterns that make little children

　　我们也已经掌握了那些让小孩子

　　susceptible³ to certain kinds of cancers and already medicines have been developed which have saved their lives, and we've just begun

　　容易患上某些癌症的机理 据此开发了新药物来挽救他们的生命 而我们这才刚刚开始

　　But the most important thing for all of you is that when the genome was sequenced we learned that every, look around this crowed,

　　但对你们来说最重要的是 当基因序列被破解之后 我们发现 你们看一下周围

　　every nonagerelated difference you can see, including race and gender⁴, are all rooted in one half of 1% of your genome

　　任何你能发现的与年龄因素不相关的差异 包括种族与性别 都根源于你那0.5%的基因里面

　　We're all 99.5% the same

　　我们有99.5%是相同的

　　Now because of our abilitiy to do genetic⁵ history,

　　正因为拥有了通过遗传学探索历史的能力

　　we found interesting relatives, you know, which have made for funny things, some of the people of Washington, politicians over the last 10 years found

　　我们发现了有意思的亲人 还闹出了有趣的事情 华盛顿的一些人 过去十年里的政客

　　But the most important thing is we're all 99.5% the same

　　但最重要的是我们所有人的99.5%都是相同的

1 gene   

n.遗传因子，基因

参考例句：

• A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
• The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。

2 variances   

n.变化( variance的名词复数 )；不和；差异；方差

参考例句：

• a note with subtle variances of pitch 音高有细微变化的音符
• That subsection allows variances based on water quality considerations. 那条细目基于对水质的考虑，允许有差异。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

3 susceptible   

adj.过敏的，敏感的；易动感情的，易受感动的

参考例句：

• Children are more susceptible than adults.孩子比成人易受感动。
• We are all susceptible to advertising.我们都易受广告的影响。

4 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

5 genetic   

adj.遗传的，遗传学的

参考例句：

• It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
• Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。