Dear editors of English Weekly,
Now I want to tell you something about wild animals.There are a lot of wild animals living on the same earth with us.They are our friends and neighbors.However,some of them are dying out everyday because of the damages we humans have been doing to the environment.And the situation is still going worse and worse.For one thing,someone killed the tigers and sold their skins to make money.They must be punished.I think we should all be responsible for that and realize that it is our everyone‘s duty to protect the wild animals.They have their right to live just as our human beings.We should treat them with love and care,respect the law of nature and share the same land with them!Let try our best to make a happy home for human beings and animals.
Yours,
***
眼间离开工作岗位一月有余,原来工作的时候,所有的时间都用来思考如何做好本职工作,如何提升自己的专业技能,如何使自己脱颖而出,没有闲工夫阅读和思考与财务无关的书籍和知识。真的很难想像我是如何在三天的时间里阅读完这本54万字的《基因传》,也许正是因为过往的专注与偏执,反而是禁锢了思维,没有看到世界的五彩斑斓和神秘莫测。
《基因传》买回来数月一直尘封在小书柜里,当初买这本书是因为有人推荐,因此附庸风雅罢了。买回来后被厚厚的大块头吓到,于是迅速插到小书柜里视而不见,直到12月回家休养身体后,因无聊至极而随手抽出来准备胡乱翻阅一下。读完封面内侧的作者简介,顿时被惊到,原来一直秉持术业专攻的理念,被作者的经历颠覆,真没想到,人生的跨度竟然还可以这么的宽泛。
这本书的作者是一位印度裔的美国医生、肿瘤专家,曾就读于牛津大学、并在斯坦福大学和哈佛大学取得医学博士学位。同时他还是一位知名科普作家,他于2010年出版的《众病之王:癌症传》竟然获得了普利策文学奖,我很难想像这两个八竿子打不到一块的领域是如何在一个人身上被触及的,于是我带着好奇心开始阅读本书,想看看科学工作者是如何运用文学的语言来给普罗大众科普基因知识的。
本书从回忆作者的家族史开始,以家族病史为引言,以遗传学的研究与发展为主线,向我们揭示了神秘的基因是如何主宰人的一生,科学家们又是如何与基因缺陷抗争从而期望使人类不断优化,实现完全控制人类自身发展目标的。读后感·作者分别介绍了家族中患有精神分裂症的堂哥,患有躁郁症的三叔,以及精神失常的四叔,因为这些家族病史的出现,作者也无时无刻不在担心这种遗传病可能在未来某个时间对自身以及家庭造成不良影响。
那么,我们的身体和性格真的是受基因控制的吗?基因是如何作用于我们的身体,控制我们的行为,影响我们的生老病死的呢?这些肉眼看不到摸不着的小玩意多么的神奇,让我不由自主地想去探个究竟,去了解我为什么会成为现在的我,是什么在控制着我,主导我人身的发展?我将研究基因的发展进程拟成了一张图表,探索基因研究的历史线索。
这本书带我领略了科学的神奇之处,也让我们可以从科学的角度来思考,我是怎么来的,我怎么会变成现在我这个样子的。由此开启认知自我的奇妙旅程,同时憧憬人类将不断进化的美好未来。
As is often read in the newspaper reports, wild life especially the rare species is threatened with extinction. Human beings are making attempts to hunt wild animals for a big profit., which, of course, results in a sharp decrease in the number of animals. So it is high time for us to take quick action to protect them. First of all, it's quite necessary for every citizen to realize the importance of animal protection. Only by knowing its importance can people develop a sense of responsibility. People will surely take it for granted to have the duty to prevent any killing of wild animals. So a national publicity campaign should be launched, thus giving animals a good living environment. In addition, the government should pass some laws to forbid any hunting of rare animals. We don't expect anything harmful to wild life to happen again.
If everyone is involved in the protection of wild life, we're sure man will be a
* 老虎是国家保护动物,目前数量日趋减少,只有四百只左右;
* 其原因是有人为了赚钱,滥捕滥***;森林的大量砍伐,破坏了老虎生存的环境;
* 呼吁国家采取措施,制定法律,保护老虎,惩罚捕猎者;
* 希望大家一起努力,创造一个人类和动物共存的幸福家园。
第一篇
Dear editors of English Weekly,
Now I want to tell you something about wild animals。There are a lot of wild animals living on the same earth with us。They are our friends and neighbors。However,some of them are dying out everyday because of the damages we humans have been doing to the environment。And the situation is still going worse and worse。For one thing,someone killed the tigers and sold their skins to make money。They must be punished。I think we should all be responsible for that and realize that it is our everyone's duty to protect the wild animals。They have their right to live just as our human beings。We should treat them with love and care,respect the law of nature and share the same land with them!Let try our best to make a happy home for human beings and animals。
Yours,
XXX
第二篇
As is often read in the newspaper reports, wild life especially the rare species is threatened with extinction。 Human beings are XXX attempts to hunt wild animals for a big profit。, which, of course, results in a sharp decrease in the number of animals。 So it is high time for us to take quick action to protect them。 First of all, it's quite necessary for every citizen to realize the importance of animal protection。 Only by knowing its importance can people develop a sense of responsibility。 People will surely take it for granted to have the duty to prevent any killing of wild animals。 So a national publicity campaign should be launched, thus giving animals a good living environment。 In addition, the government should pass some laws to forbid any hunting of rare animals。 We don't expect anything harmful to wild life to happen again。
If everyone is involved in the protection of wild life, we're sure man will be a good friend of animals rather than their enemy。
在读这本书的时候稍微改善了一下笔记方法,就是阅读四十到五十分钟,剩下的时间回翻kindle书签并做关键事件与词语的摘录。(其实是因为边读边记磕磕巴巴不太爽
上一次阅读到孟德尔,而短短数十年间“基因已从植物学实验中的抽象概念演变为操纵社会发展的强大工具。”美国有些州甚至立法进行绝育手术,将无辜的女性统一收容,“只要行为、意愿选择或者外表超过人们接受的准则,那么他们就会被划入这个可怕的怪圈。”美洲的种族净化甚嚣尘上,1936年欧洲的遗传清洗活动也不甘示弱轰轰烈烈开展起来。这中间的一些文学作品,比如《时间机器》,描述了近亲繁殖并且选育后留下的孱弱未来人类种群,《人猿泰山》则坚信虽然生长环境与教育缺失,高贵的盎格鲁撒克逊人基因仍然会带来聪慧与美好品质。忍不住想起苏联时期著名反乌托邦作品《我们》中的“母亲标准”和“父亲标准”,虽然原著意在讽刺过度标准化的社会,但是在基因选育方面异曲同工。(不知道现在矫枉过正的政治正确和这些历史有多少关系?)
在摩尔根的果蝇实验带来基因连锁、基因互换、显性遗传图谱等概念后,遗传学的发展走上了快车道,多基因遗传的研究也补足了孟德尔理论在人类遗传性状呈平滑的钟形分布方面无法解释的不足。
作为一个阅读量很少并且不怎么读历史的人,万万没想到看一本基因历史书还能看得心潮澎湃,基因发展的抽丝剥茧真如同一本推理小说。
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