夜雨聆风The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is preparedto say it anyway. He is thatrarebird, a scientist who works independentlyof any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases notpreviously thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested.
人类的某些族群可能比其他族群智商更高，这一观点是那些不敢明说的假设之一。但是格雷戈里·科克伦(1)准备无论如何也要将它公开。科克伦是那种(2)特立独行的人，是一位不属(3)于任何机构、独立工作的科学家。他曾帮助普及这样一种观点：某些(4)以前被认为并非由细菌引起的痰病，实际上是传染病。这个观点首次被提出时就引起了很大的争议。
Even he, however, mighttremble at thethought of what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not onlysuggeststhat one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that hasbrought this about. The group in question are a particularpeopleoriginated from central Europe. The process is naturalselection.
然而，(5)即使是科克伦自己，当(6)想到即将要做的事情时，也可能会不寒而粟。他将要和另外两名科学家一起发表一篇论文，这篇论文不仅(7)表明人类的某一族群比其他族群更聪明，还解释了引起/导致这一结果的过程。论文中谈到的这一族群是起源于欧洲中部的一个特定民族。这一过程就是自然选择。
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people n.人，人类；人们，大家（the people）；平民，老百姓（the people）；民族，种族（peoples）；（具有共同品质、兴趣等的）人员，团体；与某人有联系的人们（one's people）；<美，非正式>各位，诸位；<美>（审判中的）公诉人（the People）v.居住在，定居于；充满，充斥着（某种类型的人）
This group generally do well in IQ test, scoring 12-15 points above the mean value of 100, and have contributed disproportionately to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the careers of their elites,includingseveralworld-renowned scientists, affirm. They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nastygenetic diseases, such as breast cancer.These facts,however, have previously been thought unrelated. The former has beenput down tosocial effects, such as a strong tradition ofvaluingeducation. The latter was seen as a (an) consequence of genetic isolation. Dr.Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases areintimately linked . His argument is that the unusual history of these people has subjected them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in thisparadoxicalstate ofaffairs.
这一族群在智商测试中普遍表现优秀，(9)得分比100分这一(10)平均值高出12至15分，而且他们对西方知识和文化生活做出了与其人口数量(11)不成比例的巨大贡献，正如他们之中的杰出人士(包括几位世界著名的科学家)所成就的(12)事业(13)证实的那样。他们也比大多数人更容易患许多严重的遗传性疾病，如乳腺癌。(14)然而，以前人们一直认为这些事实之间没有联系。前者被归因于社会影响，例如(16)重视教育的深厚传统。后者则被认为是遗传隔离的(17)结果。科克伦博士认为，智商和遗传疾病密切(18)相关。他的论据是：这些人不同寻常的历史(19)使他们经受了独特的进化压力，这些压力导致了这种(20)看似矛盾的状况。
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meanv.意味着；表示……的意思，作……的解释；打算，意欲；使专门用于；导致，结果是；十分熟识；当真，说到做到；对某人重要
adj.吝啬的，小气的；不善良的，刻薄的；要发怒的；熟练的，出色的；平均的；简陋的，破旧的；微薄的；<旧>出身卑贱的，社会地位低下的；中庸的，中等的；<美>凶狠的，好斗的
n.中庸，折衷；平均数，中数；中间点
elitesn.精英（中的一员）；出类拔萃的人；（社会）上层集团；（受过良好教育）掌权人物；打字机（elite 的复数）
nastyadj.恶毒的，凶相的；令人不快的，令人厌恶的；（伤口、疾病等）严重的，恶性的；污秽的，下流的；（外表）丑陋的，（气味等）难闻的；造成很大伤害的；令人担忧的，难对付的；有威胁性的，吓人的
n.<非正式>令人不快的人（或事），危害别人的人（或事）；<非正式>恐怖录像（或影片）
