1. In a draft preface to the recommendations, discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro suggested that the panel had found a broad consensus that it would be "morally unacceptable to attempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning". 参考译文] 在5月17日的会议上所讨论的这份建议书的序言草案中，夏皮罗提出， 专家组已经达成广泛共识，那就是"试图通过成人细胞核克隆来制造人类幼儿的做法在道德上是不可接受的"。

2 Because current federal law already forbids the use of federal funds to create embryos (the earliest stage of human offspring before birth) fｏｒresearch ｏｒto knowingly endanger an embryo\'s life, NBAC will remain silent on embryo research.

[参考译文] 因为现今的联邦法律已经禁止使用联邦基金克隆胚胎(人类后裔在出生 前的最早阶段)用于研究或者有意地威胁胚胎的生命，NBAC在胚胎研 究上将保持沉默。

3. If experiments are planned ａｎｄ　carried out according to plan as faithfully as the reports in the science journals indicate, then it is perfectly logical fｏｒmanagement to expect research to produce results measurable in dollars ａｎｄ　cents.

[参考译文] 如果试验是像科学杂志上的报告所示的那样如实地根据计划规划和实施的话，那么对管理层来说，期待研究能够产生可以用金钱衡量的结果是完全合理的。

4. It is entirely reasonable fｏｒauditors to believe that scientists who know exactly where they are going ａｎｄ　how they will get there should not be distracted by the necessity of keeping one eye on the cash register while the other eye is on the microscope.

[参考译文] 审查者完全有理由相信，知道自己准备做什么、怎么做的科学家不应该因为必须一只眼盯着收银机，一只眼盯着显微镜而分散了注意力。

5. Nor, if regularity ａｎｄ　conformity to a standard pattern are as desirable to the scientist as the writing of his papers would appear to reflect, is management to be blamed fｏｒdiscriminating against the "odd balls" among researchers in favｏｒof more conventional thinkers who "work well with the team."

[参考译文] 如果科学家对标准式样的整齐划一的要求就像他论文的写作所反映的一 样，那么管理层就不该因歧视研究者中的"思维与众不同的人"，喜欢其 中较为传统的"善于团队合作"的思想者而受到指责了。

6. The grａｎｄ　mediocrity of today--everyone being the same in survival ａｎｄ　number of off- spring--means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribe.

[参考译文] 当今人与人在很大程度上的平等--即面对自然淘汰法则人人机会均等，并且连子嗣的数目都一样--意味着和在印度土著部落中的情况相比， 印度中上层阶级中已丧失了80%的自然选择中的优势。