a,wonderful,story

篇一：A wonderful story

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."

"Is the man of the house home?", they asked.

"No", she replied. "He's out."

"Then we cannot come in", they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened.

"Go tell them I am home and invite them in!"

The woman went out and invited the men in"

"We do not go into a House together," they replied.

"Why is that?" she asked.

One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth,"

he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your

home."

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!!", he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let

him come and fill our home with wealth!"

His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"

Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own

suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"

"Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife.

"Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest."

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!!!!!!"

MY WISH FOR YOU... -Where there is pain, I wish you peace and mercy. -Where there is self-doubting, I wish you a renewed confidence in your ability to work through it.

-Where there is tiredness, or exhaustion, I wish you understanding, patience, and renewed strength. -Where there is fear, I wish you love, and courage.

You have two choices right now:

1. Click this off

2. Invite love by sharing this story with all the people you care about.

I hope you will choose #2. I did.

篇二：This is a wonderful story of adventure and danger written

This is a wonderful story of adventure and danger written by the entire class of Reading and Writing 31:

Rau'l Ara'gon Jorge Gonzalez Xavie'r Rojas

Abdoul Arizou Carlos Layrisse Panita Suebvisai

Saeed Al-Nuaimi Kim Seung Chang Enrique Vivas

Dayana Cabeza Bella Ramire'z

Xavier's Terrible day!

Group 1:

One rainy day Xavier was flying above the Central African jungle. Suddenly, lightning hit the tail of the plane. So, Xavier lost control of the plane and it crashed into the ground.

Xavier was unconscious for two hours. When he woke up he saw that his leg was broken. Then he smelled gas and thought that the plane was going to explode. So, he jumped off the plane and, unfortunately, broke his other leg. Therefore, he had to drag on the ground like an ugly animal because he couldn't walk.

Xavier was hungry and was looking for some food, but he wasn't the only one because there was a big lion looking for some food too. He tried to run away but it was impossible. The lion bit his arm off. Then Xavier found a hole and entered it.

Group 2:

Eventually, Xavier got out of the whole and he continued to drag himself across the jungle because he wanted to get away from this lion. He climbed up a tree in order to escape this wild animal. While he was trying to climb up, some bees stung him and he plummeted onto the animal. Luckily it was afraid and ran away.

He was very hungry, so he tried to find some fruits to eat. Finally, he found some kind of fruits that he didn't know. He picked up some and ate. After a few minutes he started feeling nauseous and began to throw up. So, after he vomited for many times he became dehydrated and was thirsty. He needed to drink water, but there was no river near. He felt sick and tired, and needed rest.

Group 3:

After dinner he got a pain in his stomach. Then, while he was going into the jungle to find a place to throw up and get some water, he was bitten by a snake. He fell down and some ants started to bite him. After that he returned to the camp, which he had already set up; but when he arrived he saw that a few wild pigs had destroyed the camp. Group 4:

After midnight it began to rain and he had been looking for a safe place. His injuries continued bleeding. He started to run as fast as he could (What a miracle!) because he thought he heard a tiger. He climbed a hill and suddenly saw a little village. He ran into it and somebody knocked him down. When he regained consciousness he

noticed that he was in a big hot-tub, tied with a lot of ropes and surrounded by vegetables. He noticed that he was the guest of honor of a big party because everyone was dancing around the hot-tub. Since that day nobody has heard anything about him.

篇三：Human Cloning：A Scientiet'a Story 全新版大学英语 第三册UNIT 8课文翻译

Human Cloning: A Scientist's Story

Dr. Samuel Wood via interview

I was extremely close with my mother all my life. She was a brilliant educator, writer and wonderful woman. Sadly, she developed complications related to diabetes. When she lost her eyesight and most of her ability to walk, it was absolutely horrifying for me. She passed away from a fall seven or eight years ago. At her funeral, I swore that one day I'd do something about conditions like hers.

克隆人：一位科学家的故事

塞缪尔·伍德博士采访录

我一生与母亲无比亲密。她是一位卓越的教育家、作家，是一位了不起的女士。不幸的是，她患上了糖尿病引起的并发症。当她丧失视力和大部分行走能力时，我惊恐万状。七、八年前，她摔了一跤便离开人世。在她的葬礼上，我发誓有朝一日要为她那样的疾病做点什么。

2. Years passed and I read about the work the South Koreans had done with stem cells. In 2004 and 2005 Hwang Woo-Suk fraudulently reported that he had succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by cloning.

时间一年年过去，我读到了韩国人在干细胞研究方面所做的工作。在2004年和2005年间，黄禹锡谎称他已通过克隆技术成功地培养出人类胚胎干细胞。

3. Back then it wasn't known it was a fraud, so it was very exciting to think that a long list of diseases could be treated.

当时人们并不知道那是造假，所以想到一长串疾病有望得到医治，人们兴奋不已。

4. I founded the stem cell research company Stemagen with another gentleman whose father had died of ALS. We went out for drinks one night and we started talking about our parents. We wanted to do something that would be a legacy for them.

我与另一位先生共同创建了斯塔摩根干细胞研究公司。那位先生的父亲死于肌萎缩性（脊髓）侧索硬化。一天晚上，我们外出小酌，谈论起我们的父母。我们想做点什么，以此作为他们身后留下的遗产。

5. For Better Or Worse?

是福是祸？

6. The moment we decided to start Stemagen, I read all there was to read about the various cloning efforts in the past. The cloned sheep Dolly in 1997 was very interesting, but at that stage people were not focusing on the stem cell aspect of cloning; they were focusing on the reproductive possibilities of cloning.

一决定创建斯塔摩根干细胞研究公司，我就阅读了有关以往各种克隆实验的所有资料。1997年的克隆羊多利引起了人们极大的兴趣。但在那个时候，人们关注的不是克隆技术的

干细胞层面，而是其无性繁殖的可能性问题。

7. Human reproductive cloning is just simply wrong ethically from a medical standpoint and a scientific standpoint, even ignoring any religious issues associated with it. The reason is that the majority of reproductive clones in other species are actually abnormal, with very high miscarriage rates, very high stillbirth rates, fetal anomalies, death soon after birth, et cetera.

从医学和科学的角度来看，克隆人在伦理道德上就是错误的，即便不去理会与其相关的宗教问题。其原因在于其他物种的无性繁殖个体事实上大多数都是畸形的，流产率很高，死产率很高，胎儿畸形，出生不久便夭折，等等。

8. It would just be absolutely wrong to take a human being and put them through what may well involve significant suffering for really no good end. Even though people could take the techniques that we've developed and attempt to do it (or perhaps even be successful doing it), we hope that they would not.

让人经受极有可能遭到巨大痛苦的事，却又得不到什么好的结果，那是绝对错误的。即使有人能够利用我们研发的技术，并且试图付诸实践（也许还能成功），我们还是希望他们不要那样做。

9. On the other hand, therapeutic cloning does not involve any type of risk to human life and actually provides tremendous potential for the relief of suffering in real human beings who are going through some awful things.

从另一方面来说，治疗性的克隆技术不牵涉任何对人生命的威胁，还能真正为正在经受痛苦的人们提供缓解痛苦的极大的可能性。

10. I'm a pure scientist in some ways, and I know that many different studies or findings could be used for evil. Our job as scientists is to make the most of this technology and make it available to the greatest number of other scientists who can help us do good things with it. There's really no effective way for an individual scientist to stop someone else from using the knowledge for something they shouldn't.

在某种程度上，我是一个纯粹的科学家，可我知道种种研究或发现可能被用来做邪恶之事。作为科学家，我们的工作是充分利用这一技术，并且使之被尽可能多的其他科学家掌握，帮助我们做好事。对于科学家个人而言，其实没有什么行之有效的方法可以阻止他人将知识用在他们不该用的地方。

11. We need to be honest about the techniques that we used. They need to be able to be replicated by other people, and so, we are providing a roadmap. I would hope that the legislation that's in place and the great public disapproval that would result from any attempt to clone a human would dissuade anyone from going down that path.

我们必须诚实地说明我们所使用的技术。这些技术必须能够被他人复制，这样，我们等于提供了一张路线图。我希望适当的法规以及公众对于试图克隆人的极力反对能够劝阻任何有此企图的人走那条路。

12. What is it they say? There is no technology that hasn't been used for some evil purpose at some point. Quite honestly I do think that someone will attempt human reproductive cloning. I do think it's inevitable, and it's virtually impossible to legislate that away.

他们是怎么说的？他们说没有一项技术不曾在某个时候为了某种罪恶目的而被利用过。坦诚地说，我确实认为有人会试图克隆人。我确实认为那是不可避免的事，而且实际上也不可能通过立法加以阻止。

13. Claim to Fame

出名

14. I am spoken of as the first man to "clone himself." There are different types of cloning. At the cellular level, yes, it's true I am the first man to clone himself. We thought a great deal about how to deal with the issue of whose cells we should use and whether we should let the world and the scientific community know who the first cellular clone was.

我被说成是第一个“克隆自己”的人。有不同类型的克隆。在细胞层面上讲，没错，我的确是第一个克隆自己的人。我们应该使用谁的细胞，是否应该让世人及科学界知晓谁是第一个细胞克隆体，对于如何处理上述问题我们想得很多。

15. In the end we decided that we wanted to put a human face on cloning.

最终，我们决定要让克隆体人性化。

16. I didn't anticipate it would create the firestorm of controversy that it's created, but I'm still glad we went down that path. We received thousands of e-mails and phone calls from people who need help.

我没料到这样做竟会掀起如此轩然大波，但是对于我们走过的这条路，我仍感到高兴。我们从需要帮助的人们那里收到了成千上万的电子邮件和电话。

17. I think by coming forward and putting a face to it we made it very real, and now people around the world know that cloning is here. I believe that very soon it will be used therapeutically, so I think our purpose was served.

我认为通过主动地让克隆体人性化，我们使克隆技术变得十分真实。现在全世界的人都知道克隆来了。我相信不久克隆技术将被用于治疗疾病，所以我认为我们的目的达到了。

18. Pure Science

纯科学

19. What happens is an informed and consenting woman donates an egg and we remove her genetic material from the egg. Then we place a single skin cell inside that egg.

事情是这样的：一位被告知实情并表示同意的女士捐出一个卵子。我们取出卵子中的基因材料，然后把单个皮肤细胞置入这个卵子。

20. What we're really interested in is creating disease-specific and person-specific stem cell lines. The procedure of taking cells from a person takes no more than a minute or two. You can take some skin cells from the arm, for example, and in one to two minutes, you can get the cells that you need to carry out this process.

我们真正感兴趣的是建立特定疾病及特定个体的干细胞系列。从某人身上取出细胞的程序不过一两分钟的工夫。比方说，你可以从手臂提取皮肤细胞，一两分钟后，便可得到实施

这一过程所需的细胞。

21. This process enables us to study the causes of specific diseases, such as Alzheimer's Disease, ALS or Parkinson's Disease, and then research a variety of treatments for these diseases. If the stem cell lines are created for any given individual and are later transplanted back into the individual, they will not be rejected by the individual.

这一过程有助于我们探究诸如早老性痴呆病、肌萎缩性（脊髓）侧索硬化或者帕金森氏病之类特定疾病的起因，并着手研究治疗这些疾病的种种方法。如果干细胞系列是针对某一特定个体而培育的，然后又被移植回那个个体，它们就不会遭排异。

22. Sweet Success

甜蜜的成功

23. I always thought that when our research was successful I would just be pleased that we had accomplished this when others had not. In reality, it is transcendent — when you look through the microscope, you see what you may have looked like a long time ago, at least in part.

我一直这么想，当我们的研究获得成功时，我会为我们取得了别人还未取得的成果而欣喜。事实上，这一研究成果真是妙不可言——透过显微镜，你至少部分地看到自己很久以前大概是什么模样。

24. When I looked down and saw that cloned blastocyst, it brought tears to my eyes. I had done this for my mother, and I realized, had she only been able to live a few years longer, maybe we could have used this technology to help her. It was emotional to see that potential, which she never had a chance to experience.

当我低下头看到克隆出的胚泡时，不由得泪水盈眶。我是为母亲而做这一研究的。我想，母亲只要能多活几年，我们或许就可以利用这一技术挽救她。看到存在那样一种可能，一种母亲没有机会亲身享用的可能，不禁令人感慨万千。

25. There's a big misconception out there that we decided to destroy these embryos for some reason. There was so much skepticism about this process because of the scientific fraud from the past that it was critical that there be no doubt that they were clones.

我们出于某种原因决定毁掉这些克隆胚胎，对此外界有很大误解。由于以往的科学造假行为，人们对于我们的研究过程抱有诸多怀疑，所以确保它们确系克隆胚胎是至关重要的。

26. In the process of analysis, the embryos were destroyed by necessity. In other words, to get the genetic material from inside the cells to analyze it, you have to destroy the cell. We would have loved to have been able to avoid destroying them.

在分析的过程中，我们必须毁掉那些胚胎。换句话说，从细胞里提取遗传物质进行分析，你只得毁坏细胞。我们多么希望能够避免毁掉它们啊。

27. Now we're working full-time on creating stem cell lines, and people are watching with great interest.

目前我们正夜以继日地培育干细胞系列，人们也饶有兴趣地关注着这项工作的进展。

28. The Pope And The President

教皇和总统

29. There are a variety of opponents to our work.

我们的工作遭到各方人士的反对。

30. We were condemned by the Vatican and mentioned in a negative light in President Bush's State of the Union address. In a sense it's an honor because it shows that we're doing something significant. It's not every day that you get condemned by the Vatican and President Bush in the same week.

罗马教廷谴责我们，布什总统的国情咨文对我们也颇有微词。在某种意义上，这是一种荣耀，因为这表明我们正做着有重大意义的事情。一周之内同时遭到罗马教廷和布什总统的谴责，这样的事可不是天天发生的。

31. There's usually no dialogue between the researchers in the embryonic stem cell field and those who oppose it.

胚胎干细胞领域的研究人员和持反对意见的人士之间往往没有对话。

32. It doesn't make sense to me that it's such an emotional and contentious topic. Logically, this is not life. I agree it's a potential life, but the vast majority of embryos never become life. The majority generate, don't implant and die. A fetus is a life. That argument makes sense to me, but it doesn't make sense to me to look at an embryo in a lab and give it all the rights of a human life.

这个话题如此惹人激动，并引起偌大的争议，依我看来实在大可不必。从逻辑上讲，胚胎并不是生命。我承认胚胎有可能成为生命，但是，大多数胚胎永远不会成为生命。多数胚胎生成后，并不用于移植，随即消亡。胎儿具有生命。依我之见，那个观点才合乎情理。但是，看着实验室里的胚胎，赋予它人命的一切权利，在我看来则有失偏颇。

篇四：A wonderful present

A wonderful present

Pete Richards was the loneliest man in town on the day that little Jean Grace opened the door of his shop.

Pete’s grandfather had owned the shop until his death. Then the shop became Pete’s. The front window was full of beautiful old things: jewelry of a hundred years ago, gold and silver boxes, carved figures from China and Japan and other nations.

On this winter afternoon, a child stood there, her face close to the window. With large and serious eyes, she studied each piece in the window. Then, looking pleased, she stepped back from the window and went into the shop.

There was not much light inside the shop, but the little girl could see that the place was full of things: old guns and clocks, more jewelry and boxes and figures, and a hundred other things for which she didn’t even know the names.

Pete himself stood behind the counter. He was only 30 years old, but already his hair was turning gray. His eyes were cold as he looked at the small girl.

“Please,” she began, “would you let me look at the pretty string of blue beads in the window?” Pete took the string of blue beads from the window. The beads were beautiful against his hand as he held the necklace up for her to see.

“They were just right,” said the child as though she were alone with the beads. “Will you wrap them up in pretty paper for me, please?”

Pete studied her with his cold eyes. “Are you buying these for someone?” he asked.

“They are for my big sister. She takes care of me. You see, this will be the first Christmas since our mother died. I’ve been looking for a really wonderful Christmas present for my sister. ” “How much money do you have?” asked Pete.

From the pocket of her coat, she took a handful of pennies and put them on the counter. “This is all I have.” She explained simply. “I have been saving the money for my sister’s present.”

Pete looked at her, his eyes thoughtful. Then he carefully closed his hand over the price mark on the necklace so that she could not see it. How could he tell her the price? The happy look in her big blue eyes struck him like the pain of an old wound.

“Just a minute,” he said, and went to the back of the shop. “What’s your name?” he called out. He was very busy about something.

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“Jean Grace,” answered the child.

When Pete returned to the front of the shop, he held a package in his hand. It was wrapped in pretty Christmas paper and tied with green ribbon.

“There you are,” he said, “don’t lose it on the way home.”

She smiled happily at him as she ran out the door. Through the window he watched her go. He felt more alone than ever.

篇五：Wonderful Friends

Wonderful Friends, a 3-month-long reality show on Hunan TV, came to an end on March 28th. But the debate it aroused is far from dying out.

The weekly show features interactions between animals and six celebrities working as zookeepers in Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou. The show is a programming success for Hunan TV.

“People are more interested in TV shows with celebrities than in documentaries,” animal protection expert Deng Xuejian told Netease News. “The program is a good way to get people closer to animals.”

However, animal welfare advocates say that is exactly what should be avoided.

“It is hugely misleading to the public about the needs and welfare of captive animals,” Dave Neale of Animals Asia, an advocacy group based in Hong Kong, said in a statement. In one scene, celebrities took two baby chimps out and competed to buy the best clothes for them. One of the two chimps suddenly became restless and bit Myolie Wu, one of the star zookeepers.

In another scene a baby chimp was placed near its father to demonstrate that the older animal would treat the infant as a stranger. The baby becomes distressed and the chimp?s father appears anxious and throws a rock at the TV crew.

The TV company created “stressful and harmful situations” to provoke entertaining storylines, said the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Despite the criticism, Animals Asia founder and CEO Jill Robinson has witnessed a significant rise in the number of Chinese citizens showing concern for animal welfare. “When I first began working in the country from 1985 there was one welfare group in Beijing and now there are over 100 spread across every province,” Robinson said on the website of Animals Asia. “Today, we work with them to give a voice to wild and

companion animals and provide a convincing argument as to why they should no longer be exploited as entertainment, ?medicine? or food.”

But a lack of knowledge about animals? habits and needs may lead to some wrongs. “Many people may think getting cuddly is an expression of love. What they don?t realize is wild animals need space,” Xie Yan, a zoologist and China director of the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society, told The New York Times. “Putting clothes on chimps is not as adorable as you may think from the animals? point of view.”

Better leave them alone

Teaching chimps to dress could harm their health because it may raise their body temperature and also mentally confuse them.

In the world, it?s a common practice to use celebrities to focus public attention on wildlife protection. Yao Ming, for example, traveled to Africa last year to shoot a documentary for WildAid highlighting the problem of elephant and rhinoceros poaching.

But in Yao?s case, human observers kept their distance, according to The New York Times.

The debate has also gotten young people thinking. “Who doesn?t want to make friends with those cute animals who melt your heart? But after that sentiment, we should put ourselves in their shoes: Is this love what they need?” said Liu Yi, a 19-year-old animal medicine student at Qingdao Agricultural University.

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