医学英语翻译分析.docx

Unit1The Human complex— A Never –failing Source of Wonderment “ In my view, ” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1814 , “no knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions. ” Distinguished thinkers before and since Jefferson have held this belief, but curiously, it is not one that the average person wholeheartedly shares.Man’s attitude toward his own body—his single most precious possession—is decidedly ambivalent. At one and the same time he is fascinated by it and fearful of it, partly in echo of ancient taboos, partly in the conviction that the body is too complicated to understand. “在我看来，”托马斯杰佛逊于1814年写道：“对人来说，没有什么知识会比了解自身的架构、部件、以及他们的功能和运动更能使他满足。”在杰佛逊前后的杰出思想家均持有这个观点，但激发人好奇心的是，这个观点并不为普罗大众所由衷地接受。人们对自己的身体（这个对他自身来说最为宝贵的财富）的态度其实是充满矛盾的。一方面，人们对身体感到非常着迷，另一方面，却又对其深感敬畏，这在一定程度上是受古代禁忌的影响，也在一定程度上反映了人们确信肉体过于复杂而难以理解。 The possible approaches to a study of the body are legion.To the cynic, the body is no more than a tenement of clay; to the poet, a palace of the soul; to the physician, an all-too-ailing hulk. The psychiatrist sees it as a housing for the mind and personality. The geneticist sees it as a perpetuator of its own kind.The biologist sees it as an organism which can alter the future as a result of the experience of the past. 研究人体的方法可谓纷繁多样。对愤世嫉俗者来说，人体贱如粘土陋室；对吟诗作赋者来说，人体尊如灵魂的宫殿；对内科医生来说，人体是脆弱多病的躯壳。精神病学家视其为理智和个性的居所。遗传学家当其为自我繁衍的机器。生物学家视其为能借过往的经验来改变未来的生命体。All the specialized scientific views of the body are valid. All, however, must start from the same premise: an awareness of the body’s basic structure and functions—its anatomy and physiology. And the bedrock principle of our present understanding of the body is that all living matter is composed of cells basically similar in structure and function. 所有有关人体的专业科学的观点都是有依据的，然而，所有的这些都必须有同一个前提：那就是对研究人体的基本结构和功能的解剖学和生理学的认识。我们对身体的了解的基本原则是，所有生物都是由结构和功能基本相似的细胞构成的。A Swarm of Tiny Specialists Studies of the cell—what it is , what it does and how it reproduces itself —have revealed it