VOA慢速英语:Create Human Stem Cells Through Cloning

短语讲解：

1. Cloning a human being is illegal in more than 12 states.

more than 不止
例句：We have more than a car!
我们可不止有辆车！

2. One state where "therapeutic cloning" is not banned is Oregon, that is where researchers at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland were able to put human DNA into modified human eggs.

be able to 能够
例句：We hope you'll be able to attend.
我们希望你能够前来参加。

3. Alta Charo is a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School, she believes it is too soon to say, whether the use of embryonic stem cells for personalized medicine would become common.

too...to 太…以至于不能
例句：Perhaps magical realism is just too hard to translate.
或许是魔幻现实主义太难解释。

4. "I think that would argue for using them, I think there are moral obligation to people who are here among us, who are sick and in need trans-political concerns, and a public relations, and perception problems around the very * first two or three days worth of development of an embryo-like entity."

be sick 生病
例句：You must be sick!
你一定是生病了!