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Scienceafterthepandemic
疫情后科学
文章概要:
新冠疫情把各种将改变人类健康的医疗技术连结在一起。
THEFIRSTvirustohaveitsgenomereadwasanobscurelittlecreaturecalledMS2;the3,RNAlettersitcontainedwerepublishedin,thehard-wonproductofsometenyearsworkinawell-staffedBelgianlaboratory.TheSARS-CoV-2genome,almostninetimeslonger,waspublishedjustweeksafterdoctorsinWuhanfirstbecameconcernedaboutanewpneumonia.Thatfeathassincebeenrepeatedwithgettingonfor1mdifferentsamplesofSARS-CoV-2inthehuntforfearsomevariantsliketheoneravagingBrazil.Withinweeksofitspublication,theoriginalgenomesequencebecamethebasisforthevaccinesthattodayarestymieingtheviruswhereversupplies,politicsandpublicconfidenceallow.
解析:
genome基因组
obscureadj,鲜为人知的;难以理解的;v.使模糊
hard-wonadj来之不易的;经奋斗(或努力)得到的(winhard)
thehard-wonproduct做3,RNAletters的同位语(同义替换,代指比利时实验室的研究成果)
well-staffed人员配置精良的
(hard-won,well-staffed都是副词+动词的合成构词法,与well-equipped的类似)
pneumonia肺炎
getonfor接近
fearsome(some后缀troublesome)
variant变体
vaccines疫苗
stymieing(stymie的ing)阻挠
参考译文
全球第一个被基因测序的病毒叫MS2,名气不大。年,经过约十年的艰辛研究,比利时一个人才济济的实验室发表了它包含的3个RNA字母序列。新冠病毒的基因组长度几乎是MS2的九倍,在武汉的医生开始