(单词翻译:单击)
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University of Cambridge have found that in some areas of DNA, including those linked to mental illness and obesity, some of the faults remain.
英国剑桥大学发现某些DNA区域包括与精神疾病与肥胖有关的基因仍然存在一些缺陷。
DNA carries traces of past events meaning poor lifestyle can affect future generations it has been reported.
据报道,基因能够“记录过往” 是指贫穷的生活会影响未来几代人。

Professor Azim Surani, from the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge, said:
剑桥大学威康信托基金会/英国癌症研究古尔研究所的Azim Surani教授说道:
“The information needs to be reset in every generation before further information is added to regulate development of a newly fertilised egg.
“每一代都需要对这一信息进行重设,然后再进一步添加信息来调控新受精卵的发育。”
It’s like erasing a computer disk before you add new data."
这就像你在添加新数据之前要清空电脑磁盘一样。”
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词语解释
1.future generation 后代
例句:The prime function of schooling is to equip the future generation to find jobs.
教育的主要职能是教给下一代技能以找工作。
2.linked to 与...有关
例句:The submission is not linked to any other issue.
此协定不与其他任何问题挂钩。
3.mental illness 精神疾病
例句:Heredity also plays a role in some types of mental illness.
遗传在某些精神病中也有作用。
4.computer disk 电脑磁盘
例句:They have to smuggle the computer disk into the country .
他们不得不将计算机磁盘偷运进该国。

