賴世雄英語新聞聽力通 第55期:白人或為亞非人后裔

(LONDON,Reuters)One in every 100 "white" Britons is descended from an African or Asian,a study into DNA has found.

(路透社倫敦電)一份針對DNA的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，每一百位英國“白”人就有一位是非洲人或亞洲人的后裔。

The study's author, Professor Bryan Sykes,believes the DNA originates in Africans brought to Britain as soldiers and slaves by the Romans.

這份研究的作者拜倫.席克教授相信，這些人的DNA來自非洲人，而這些非洲人當(dāng)時是以士兵或奴隸的身份，被羅馬人帶進英國的。

Even people who could trace their families back hundreds of years had non-white genes.

即使是那些可以追溯家族歷史到幾百年前的人，也都有非白種人的基因。