现代大学英语精读5 Unit 2,3,4,6,7 课后翻译(7)

疑问和进行审视。

Lesson 6

1. There has arisen a thing called life—flamboyant, rambunctious, gregarious form of matter, qualitatively different from rocks, gas, and dust, yet made of the same stuff, the same humdrum elements lying around everywhere.

出现了一种叫做生命的东西——物质的一种形态：它与岩石、气体以及尘埃有本质的不同， 但却由同样的东西，到处存在的同样的元素构成。

2. Extraterrestrial life represents an enormous gap in our knowledge of nature.

外空是否存在生命，这是我们对自然认识的空白。

3. We don't know how truly alien it is. We don't know if it's built on a foundation of carbon atoms. We don't know if it requires a liquid-water medium, if it swims or flies or burrows.

我们不知道这种生命是否建立在碳原子基础上，是否需要液体形态的水作为中介，是游呢、飞呢，还是生活在地下。

4. But neither are people who believe in the UFO narratives irrational, much less crazy, as they are sometimes depicted.

对外星人乘坐飞碟光临地球这种说法深信不疑的人，并不像人们有时候所说的那样，是逻辑混乱，更不是丧失理智。