When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

  • -- Khaled Hosseini 哈立德·侯赛尼

当我去阿富汗的时候,我意识到,由于随机的基因抽签,我得以幸免,因为我出生在那些有能力逃离阿富汗的人的家里。每次我去阿富汗,我都被这个问题所困扰。

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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

很少有人能充分意识到这种节约在阅读中的重要性,因为阅读几乎完全是选择书籍的第一顺序。为什么,除了一些特殊的原因,在你可能正在阅读最高等级的书的时候,却要读一本劣等的书呢?

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

与此同时,这是一个家庭故事,更像是一部史诗。我需要第三人称。我试着给人一种感觉,卡尔在写他的故事时,也许是在创造他的过去,而不是在回忆它。

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

为了简单起见,我们可以认为+类在遗传信息中的某个点上有一个额外的碱基,而-类的碱基过少。

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

如果你想解剖活细胞的结构,基因分析是一种非常强大的方法,所以我的兴趣转向了这方面。