1. Some people believe that a child´s organs of speech are more flexible than an adult´s. 有人认为,儿童的语言器官比成人的适应性更强。
2. Scientists in Scotland recently announced that, for the first time, they have cloned an exact copy of an adult mammal. 苏格兰科学家最近宣称,他们第一次克隆了一只成年哺乳动物。
3. Moreover, less than 10% of female high-school seniors expect to spend their adult lives solely as mothers and domestic managers, while nearly 90% are committed to having both a career and a marriage based on equality. 此外只有不到10%的女高中生期望着将来以仅仅是母亲和女当家人的身份来度过她们的成年生活,而差不多占90%的女生则决心既要有一份职业,又要有一个以男女平等为基础的婚姻。
4. It makes perfect sense to say that adult persons have a right not to be cloned without their voluntary, informed consent. 未经通知并征得本人同意,成年人有权不被克隆,这是完全合理的。
5. Instead of using early-stage embryo cells, Wilmut used cells from the udder (乳腺) of an adult sheep. 威尔莫特使用的不是初期胚胎细胞,而是从一只成年绵羊的乳腺提取的细胞。