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AMNA NAWAZ: Genetic testing has become increasingly popular. For about the same cost as a nice dinner, you can now find out where your ancestors came from or get answers to medical questions. It's easy to do. And, for many people, it's done on a lark, with no real expectation of a surprise. Dani Shapiro, however, experienced a much different outcome. Tonight, she shares her Humble Opinion on why family secrets should no longer be kept.
DANI SHAPIRO, Author, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy: On a winter night three years ago, my husband told me that he had decided to take a DNA test. He was curious. That's all. He asked me if I wanted him to order me one too. I wasn't curious. I knew exactly where I came from, but I said, sure. Why not? It seemed like no big deal. Prices had come way down. Families everywhere were giving each other DNA kits as holiday gifts. When my results came back, they revealed that my late beloved father had not been my biological father. In rapid succession, using nothing more than Facebook and Google searches, I learned that I had been conceived in an institute in Philadelphia, and that my biological father had been a sperm donor. Within 36 hours, I found that sperm donor, who had been a young medical student at the time. He was now a retired 78-year-old doctor, a medical ethicist. He was more than a little bit surprised to hear from me. A secret was scrupulously kept from me for 54 years. Secrets defined the world of infertility and reproductive medicine at the time, something that persists to this day. Couples were told to have sex before and after the procedure, so that they'd never really be sure who the father was, and to then to go home and forget it ever happened, to never breathe a word, not to family, not to friends. The child would never know. And what we don't know doesn't hurt us.
Except that I believe that what we don't know absolutely does hurt us. I grew up with a powerful sense that something wasn't quite right. Things didn't add up. I didn't add up. I looked very different from my family, but that was only a small part of it. There were ways in which I simply was different. But I didn't know why. So I did what children do. I felt there must be something wrong with me. That feeling of wrongness permeated my life, even as I was able to thrive as a writer, marry, and have a child of my own. There was always a subtle disconnect, as if the wires were crossed. I wrote book after book, trying to understand why this was the case. We're living in a time when family secrets are tumbling out at a stunning rate. Easy, popular DNA testing along with the Internet makes it nearly inevitable that secrets involving family and identity won't make it to the grave. And that's a good thing, because no matter how high up on a shelf a secret is kept, it's still there. Just because it isn't spoken doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Quite the opposite. It's all the more powerful and dangerous for having been hidden.
重点解析
1.hear from 收到
Drop us a line, it's always great to hear from you
给我们写封短信，能收到你的信总是让人很高兴。
2.keep from 隐瞒
I was so excited that I couldn't keep the good news from her any longer.
我太激动了, 再也没法对她隐瞒这个好消息了。
3.different from 不同
In their own work they may have favored the use of methodology different from mine.
他们在做自己的工作时，也许更喜欢使用和我不一样的一套方法。
4.no longer 不再
After about three months, I was no longer addicted to nicotine.
大约3个月后，我就不再对尼古丁上瘾了。
5.come down 下降
If you buy three bottles, the bottle price comes down to £ 2.42
如果买3瓶，价格会便宜一些，每瓶2.42英镑。
参考译文
阿姆纳·纳瓦兹：基因检测越来越流行了。只需一顿丰盛晚餐的钱，就能知道你的祖先来自哪里，也能了解很多医学问题的答案，简单的很呐。而且，对很多人来说，做基因检测只是随手一试，并没有抱着结果惊艳的心理预期。不过，达尼·夏皮罗却体验了一次与众不同的基因检测结果。今晚，她将分享自己的“我之拙见”，讲讲为什么不要保留家族的秘密。
达尼·夏皮罗，《遗传：家谱回忆录》作者：3年前一个冬天的晚上，我的丈夫告诉我他决定做一个DNA检测。原因很简单：他只是好奇而已。他问我用不用帮我也预定一个。但我并不好奇，因为我清楚地知道自己来自何方，但我还是说“好啊，做呗。”看起来没什么大不了的。基因检测的价格一直在下降。各个家庭都将做基因检测作为礼物赠予彼此。当我的检测结果发回来的时候，报告上显示，我挚爱的已故父亲不是我的生父。接下来，我迅速通过各种渠道，不仅限于脸书和谷歌浏览器去进行检索，随后发现我出生在费城的一家研究所里。我的生父当时捐献了精子。用了不到36小时的时间，我发现我的生父那时候是一名年轻的医学专业学生。现在，他是一位78岁的退休医生，一位医学伦理学家。当他收到我的来信时，惊讶十分。这个秘密，在长达54年的时间里，一直被人小心翼翼地守护着，不让我知道。那时候，不孕不育方面的医学里充斥着各种秘密，即便今天，也是如此。很多人会告诉一些夫妻在做这个流程之前和之后都要做爱，这样他们就无法确定孩子的生父是谁。然后回到家就要像没事儿人一样，跟亲友都要绝口不谈。孩子也永远不会知道，而不知道的事情就不会伤害到我们。
但我却认为，我们不知道的事情才真正地伤害着我们。我从小就有一种强烈的感觉——有些地方感觉不太对。很多事情看起来都不合乎情理，就连我也是——我跟家人长得非常不同，但这只是一小方面而已。从某些角度来看，我与家庭成员迥然不同，但我却不知道为什么。所以，虽然我还是像孩子一样做着自己该做的事情，但我还是觉得有什么不对劲儿。这种不对劲儿的感觉一直伴随着我，即便在我当了作家、结了婚、有了自己的小孩儿之后依然是如此。有一种微妙的断节感，就好像剪不断理还乱的线团。我写了很多本书，写书的过程中也试图理清头绪。我们生活的这个时代，很多家族的秘密都被湮没无声了。便捷又流行的基因检测加上互联网的辅助，让有关家庭和出身的所有秘密无从遁形，如同包不住火的纸。这是好事儿，因为一个秘密有多么的束之高阁，但总不是高不可攀。不说出来不代表不存在。相反，隐患的威力更大、更危险。
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