高一英语 课外知识扩读 科学家为大猩猩做眼科手术（中英对照）

Surgeon Rescues Gorilla From the MistA British surgeon has carried out a pioneering operation to restore the sight of a gorilla who was born blind.Romina, a 21-year-old Western lowland gorilla at Bristol Zoo Gardens, west England, had congenital cataracts in both eyes.Ophthalmic surgeon Jenny Watts from the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester removed one cloudy cataract and replaced it with a silicon lens - the first such operation performed on an adult gorilla in Europe, according to the zoo.Watts said the half-hour operation was no different from treating a human for cataracts - apart from a pungent aromatic smell emanating from her hairy patient.The hardest bit is the anesthesia because its critical to ensure that the gorilla remains completely unconscious throughout the operation, Watts said.It took an hour and a half for 120-kg Romina to be tranquilized, allowing the surgeon to make an incision through the cornea before breaking up the cataract with ultrasound and inserting the silicon lens.Once Romina recovered she was reunited with her companions Bongo and Salome - and there may be romance in the air.Romina had led quite a reclusive life - but now shes even interacted with a male for the first time, said Watts.A second cataract operation was being planned to restore Rominas bilateral sight, the zoo said in a statement.Western lowland gorillas can live to about 50 years and come from areas of dense rain forest and swamp in African countries including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Central African Republic. 日前，一位英国的外科医生为一只患有先天眼疾的大猩猩进行了一次白内障摘除手术，开创了眼科治疗领域的先河。这只21岁的大猩猩名叫罗米纳，生活在英国西部布里斯托尔动物园的西部低地地区。这只不幸的大猩猩自出生的时候就因患有先天性白内障而生活在黑暗之中。据动物园的工作人员介绍，这次的手术由英国温彻斯特汉普郡皇家医院的外科医生詹尼?沃茨主刀，在欧洲，罗米纳是第一只接受这种手术的成年大猩猩。手术中，医生首先要去处一只眼睛里的白内障，然后在眼球内镶入一只硅制镜片。沃茨医生说这场历时半个小时的手术和平时给人类进行的白内障手术没有什么区别，唯一不同的是她必须要忍受这位长毛病人身上散发的刺鼻的气味。沃茨说：手术中难度最大的是对大猩猩进行麻醉，因为整场手术必须要在保证它完全麻醉的情况下进行。为这只体重达120公斤的大猩猩进行麻醉花费了一个半小时的时间，之后医生才能在它的角膜上打开切口，然后用超声波将白内障粉碎，镶入硅制镜片。当罗米纳苏醒过来的时候，她平日的伙伴-大猩猩邦戈和萨洛米就在她的身边。那真是个浪漫的场景啊！沃茨说：从前的罗米纳一直过着封闭的生活，但是手术后她已经和从前大不一样了，现在的她甚至已经开始第一次和异性交往了。布里斯托尔动物园在一次声明说，罗米纳第二次白