2020-08-22經濟學人該期封面文章

自然所帶來的每一場災難都將把人類的發(fā)展推向縱深，學會與病毒共處，會幫助我們更深刻地審視人類當下所處的境遇

生詞不太影響理解意思，主要是一些專有名詞和形容詞

?Hence the silence of sabre-tooth tigers, the absence of moas from New Zealand and the long list of endangered megafauna不跟完整句子！他是個副詞，不能接句子

良好的工作環(huán)境促進人的表現，and ？hence 生產力

老師推薦書目

https://baike.baidu.com/item/China%27s%20Megatrends/57710562?fr=aladdin

https://www.doc88.com/p-08373510440.html

一戰(zhàn)死亡1千多萬，18-20大流感2.5-4千萬

far beyond

?pressing緊急需要馬上被處理

The influence of viruses on life on Earth, though, goes far beyond the past and present tragedies of a single species, however pressing they seem.

絕不僅是死亡了個把物種的事兒

subset子集，集合

?Viruses are unimaginably varied and ubiquitous. 好多形容詞時

病毒多種多樣無處不在，這是我們難以想象的

Merciless=pitiless

heady

they also present a heady mix of threat and opportunity.

at its most dramatic（最高級）以最。。的方式

把病毒的復制說的很生動

They are parasites of the purest kind: they borrow everything from the host except the genetic code that makes them what they are.? They strip down life itself to the bare essentials of information and its replication.

?If the abundance of viruses is anything to go by, that is a very successful strategy indeed.

（老師說外網上）如果可以參考的話

翻：從病毒的龐大數量來看，他們的繁殖策略非常成功

病毒數量的龐大佐證了他們繁殖策略的成功

（前面說的一個，補充）“ package ”,所指的 “套餐” 一般包括在一段時間內可以使用的手機流量、通話時間以及短信數量。比如,“a 10gb data plan” 或者 “a 10gb data package”

set meal套餐；客飯

comprehensive insurance全險

?according to calculations on the back of a very big envelope,

手邊有啥背面拿來算--粗略計算

二的四次方是十六。 ? ? ? ?The fourth power of 2 is16.

?powerhouses（【c.】） of ...的強大力量（組織或人）

高中生物必修二的收割理論

?Ecologically, this promotes diversity by scything down abundant species, thus making room for rarer ones. The more common an organism, the more likely it is that a local plague of viruses specialised to attack it will develop, and so keep it in check.（被約束）

?It so happens that such altruistic suicide is a prerequisite for cells to come together and form complex organisms湊巧，恰好? 無私的

And even human brains may owe their development in part to the movement within them of virus-like elements that create genetic differences between neurons within a single organism.

大腦神經元的多樣性歸功于病毒的游走

?Evolution’s most enthralling insight is that breathtaking complexity can emerge from the sustained, implacable and nihilistic competition within and between organisms.

（刪除形容詞）在物種之間和之內的競爭造就了進化的多樣性

??！The fact that the blind watchmaker造物主 has equipped you with the capacity to read and understand these words is in part a response to the actions of swarms of tiny, attacking replicators that have been going on, probably, since life fifirst emerged on Earth around 4bn years ago.

世界運行機制watch

你能看懂文字，這是造物主（比喻進化）對病毒的回應

?Humanity’s unique, virus-chiselled consciousness opens up new avenues to deal with the viral threat and to exploit it.病毒刀刻斧鑿（也指男性棱角分明的長相）出人類的意識，人類用這意識來利用和對抗病毒

（查how made winds得知）Long time no see也是中式英語？又查了一下說是能用的

http://www.mnw.cn/news/ent/xx/2220335.html

高中生物選修三內容限制性內切酶

restriction enzymes—molecular scissors

?crispr

crisper-cas9技術高中經?？?，曾經用在了辯論里面糊弄人

> From the smallest beginnings從最新入手（所以是小嘛）

中心句

In any case, the marvellous diversity of life rests on viruses which, as much as they are a source of death, are also a source of richness and of change. Marvellous, too, is the prospect of a world where viruses become a source of new understanding for humans—and kill fewer of them than ever before.

總之是一篇學術性美文