【英语时差8,16】皇家瘟疫
时间：2019-01-22 作者：英语课 分类：英语时差8，16
The Royal Plague It’s good to be king, as the saying goes. But sometimes having a royal lineage isn’t so great. Take the male descendants of Queen Victoria, who was the reigning 1 monarch 2 of the United Kingdom during most of the 19th century. Victoria’s son, Leopold, died is his thirties when he slipped, fell, and bled to death. Her grandson, Friedrich, met his end at age two, also bleeding to death. Grandsons Leopold and Maurice made it to ages 32 and 23, respectively, before they too, bled out. Now, given all the bleeding, you might assume that Victoria’s male line suffered from hemophilia. And you’d be right. But it wasn’t until 2009 that scientists confirmed that what had been known as “Royal disease” was, in fact hemophilia–a genetic 4 mutation 5 that disables the ability of blood to clot 6. Absent clotting 7, even a trivial cut or scratch can turn deadly if too much blood is lost. So how did scientists confirm that it was hemophilia that plagued the royals? By analyzing 8 the DNA 9 of Victoria’s great grandson, Prince Alexei Romanov. He was murdered along with his entire family during the onset 10 of the Russian Revolution in 1918. Using bone fragments, the scientists identified genetic markers for hemophilia B. Prince Alexei shared the same troublesome DNA as other male members of Queen Victoria’s exclusive gene 3 pool. So the finding confirmed that all the royals who bled to death did so because of hemophilia. Today, clotting factors and other medications can effectively control hemophilia. But during the 19th century, when no remedy was available, bleeding without end usually meant that you’d reached the end–royalty or not.
- The sky was dark, stars were twinkling high above, night was reigning, and everything was sunk in silken silence. 天很黑，星很繁，夜阑人静。
- Led by Huang Chao, they brought down the reigning house after 300 years' rule. 在黄巢的带领下，他们推翻了统治了三百年的王朝。
- The monarch's role is purely ceremonial.君主纯粹是个礼仪职位。
- I think myself happier now than the greatest monarch upon earth.我觉得这个时候比世界上什么帝王都快乐。
- 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。
- 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。
- People who have this mutation need less sleep than others.有这种突变的人需要的睡眠比其他人少。
- So far the discussion has centered entirely around mutation in the strict sense.到目前为止，严格来讲，讨论完全集中于围绕突变问题上。
- Platelets are one of the components required to make blood clot.血小板是血液凝固的必须成分之一。
- The patient's blood refused to clot.病人的血液无法凝结。
- The study was also based only on the one anti-clotting drug. 所用抗血栓药物也仅限于一种。 来自互联网
- A plasma protein that is converted into thrombin during blood clotting. 凝血原酶一种血浆蛋白质，在血液凝聚时转化成凝血''。'酵'。''''。'素'。''。 来自互联网
- Analyzing the date of some socialist countries presents even greater problem s. 分析某些社会主义国家的统计数据，暴露出的问题甚至更大。 来自辞典例句
- He undoubtedly was not far off the mark in analyzing its predictions. 当然，他对其预测所作的分析倒也八九不离十。 来自辞典例句
- DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
- Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。