80年代中期,中国新闻界曾闹过一个大笑话,一家报纸登了一则国外‘最新科技’成果——西红柿与牛嫁接成功,接着许多报刊纷纷转载这则奇闻,轰动一时。可是过了相当一段时间人们才知道这是翻译有误造成的讹传。由于报界曾多次出现这类‘奇文共欣赏,疑义无人析’的怪现象,有人曾提出记者应该‘学者化’。就西红柿与牛嫁接讹传看,要记者学者化也太为难了点,事实上对这个‘遗传工程成果’新闻,中国的科学界也迟迟未见出来表示点什么,这说明一个科学技术落后的国家,新闻业要想领先也很困难。 In the mid-1980s, there was a big joke in the Chinese press. A newspaper posted a successful achievement of foreign ’latest science and technology’ - the successful grafting of tomatoes and cattle. Then many newspapers and magazines reprinted this anecdote and made a big splash. However, after a long period of time, people did not realize that this was a misrepresentation caused by a translation error. Since there have been many strange phenomena in the press in which such kind of ’oddities and wonders are enjoyed and no doubt is analyzed,’ some have argued that journalists should be ’scholarly’. In fact, it is too hard for journalists to be scholarly scholars. In fact, China’s scientific community has not yet seen any indication of what happened to this ’genetic engineering achievement.’ This shows that one science and technology lags behind It is difficult for the state and journalism to lead the way.