VOA标准英语2008年-DNA Tests ID Russian Czar's Children
时间：2019-02-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（七月）
DNA 1 tests have positively 2 identified the remains 3 of two children of the last Russian czar, settling a mystery that had long surrounded their fate. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports the memory of the murdered czarist family is still honored by many in Russia.
Bottom row left to right: Princess Olga, Czar Nicholas II, Princess Anastasia, Prince Alexei and Princess Tatiana Top row left to right: Princess Maria and Princess Alexandra
The Russian General Prosecutor's office says remains found last year in the city of Yekaterinburg have been identified through DNA testing as those of Grand Duchess Maria and Prince Alexei - two of Czar Nicholas II's five children.
Investigator 4 Vladimir Solovyov explains three laboratories helped identify Maria and Alexei.
Solovyov says each group worked independently and there was even an element of competition among them. He says they compared genetic 5 material of the czarist family found in 1991 with the genetic samples of the children found last year to make a positive identification.
The announcement comes just one day ahead the 90th anniversary of the czarist executions carried out by Bolshevik agents early on July 17, 1918.
A written account left by one of the killers 6, Yakov Yurovsky, indicated the royal bodies had been soaked in acid and thrown down a mineshaft. He said two of the victims were burned and buried nearby. Those are the ones identified Tuesday. The remains of Czar Nicholas, his wife and three daughters were buried in 1998 in Saint Petersburg.
Nicholas II is leading an Internet poll conducted by the Rossiya television network and the Russian Academy of Sciences to name the greatest Russian. Some see that as an indication of renewed interest in the country's royal past. The Orthodox Church, which canonized the czar, is holding memorial services Wednesday and Thursday to commemorate 7 him and his family.
But Nikolai Lukyanov, the director of the Russian Royal Family Museum in Moscow, told VOA it is not enough to merely pray for the Czar.
At a minimum, says Lukyanov, monuments to communists who toppled the czar should be removed and street names should be changed. He says there are streets in Yekaterinburg within blocks of the place where the czarist family was killed that still bear the names of their executioners.
Lukyanov notes, however, that Russian communists continue to oppose the removal of monuments to their former leaders.
In an indication of continued reverence 8 for Russia's Soviet 9 past, Communist dictator Joseph Stalin holds second place in the Internet poll behind the Czar Nicholas among 50 of the country's leading historical figures.
- 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。
- She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
- The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。
- The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。
- 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。
- He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
- They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
- This building was built to commemorate the Fire of London.这栋大楼是为纪念“伦敦大火”而兴建的。
- We commemorate the founding of our nation with a public holiday.我们放假一日以庆祝国庆。
- He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
- We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.我们尊重传统，但不被传统所束缚。