Clone 克隆

When clone first entered English in 1903, it was used in the context of botany. It comes from the Greek klon meaning "a twig" and is related to klados meaning "offshoot of a plant." Later, clone took on the sci-fi sense of "artificially duplicated person" thanks to Alvin Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock.

克隆一词首次进入英语是在1903年，当时是植物用语，源自希腊语的klon，意思是“嫩枝”，它还和klados有关，这个词的意思是“一棵植物的分支”。后来，阿尔文·托夫勒在1970年出版的《未来的冲击》中赋予了它科幻含义，指“复制人类”。