Question

两句关于生物学专业的英语翻译，实在是组织不了语言了，求大神。

Rotting meat did not spontaneously yield maggots; rather, familiar biological agents and processes were responsible—in this case egg—laying flies. The idea of spontaneous generation had been discredited.
spontaneously ad.自发地 maggot n.蛆 spontaneous generation 自然发生说

Contained in the molecule's graceful curves was the key to molecular biology, a new science whose progress over the subsequent fifty years has been astounding.
curve n.曲线 subsequent a.随后的

Answer 1

腐肉自身并不能产生蛆；相反，是纯生物的本体和纯生物的进程——在这种情况下就是苍蝇卵——才会孵化出了苍蝇。因此这种“腐肉自身就能生蛆”的理论已经被完全摒弃了。

在分子那优美的曲线中，恰恰包含着分子生物学的关键所在——这门全新的科学在随后五十年中所获得的发展堪称惊世骇俗。