时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:双语有声阅读


英语课

Can Your Belly 1 Tell You If It Is a Boy or Girl? 生男生女 ── 肚皮露玄机?


\Many myths surround the mysteries of pregnancy 2. For example, people have developed a lot of folk wisdom about predicting a baby's sex. One old wives' tale that has endured is that if a woman carries her unborn baby low, then it will be a boy. Actually, the shape and height of a woman' belly during pregnancy is determined 3 by her muscle tone and the position the baby is in.




Another myth surrounding the sex of a baby says that curvy women have girls and less curvy women have boys. The reasoning behind this is that less curvy women are thought to have higher levels of the male hormone 4, testosterone. However, a recent study found no connection between a mother's waist-to-hip ratio and her infant's gender 5.




While old beliefs may be interesting and fun to talk about, there is only one accurate way to predict a baby's sex: by getting an ultrasound done.




围绕着怀孕的种种现象有许多神话。比方说,人们发现了民间很多预测胎儿性别的妙法。根据一则流传至今的老妇人的故事,如果孕妇腹中胎儿的位置较低,那么就会是个男孩。不过实际上,孕妇肚子在怀孕期间的形状及高度是取决于孕妇腹肌的紧实度及腹中胎儿的胎位。




另一个与胎儿性别有关的神话是:腰、臀间曲线明显的妇女会生女孩;反之,曲线较不明显的则会生男孩。这种说法的论据是人们认为曲线较不明显的妇女具有较多的男性荷尔蒙──睾丸素酮。不过最近的一项研究表明,母亲的腰、臀比例和婴儿的性别没有关系。




老祖先的看法或许很有趣,说起来也挺有意思,不过能准确预测胎儿性别的方法却只有一个:用超声波扫描

 



n.肚子,腹部;(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分,膛
  • The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
  • His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。
n.怀孕,怀孕期
  • Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
  • Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
n.荷尔蒙,激素,内分泌
  • Hormone implants are used as growth boosters.激素植入物被用作生长辅助剂。
  • This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body.这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
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.lr
7-nitroindazole
acicular tempered martensite
adjustment of circulation
advance in technology
aerosol concentration
agate spatula
age-darkened
alternating magnetization
angle dozer
appying
back pressure evaporator
Bekovicha, Bukhta
beslime
besocked
Boardman
bridge stacker
caecostomy
Cerorthite
churia ghati (siwalik ra.)
CliffsNotes
color center laser
computerized seat reservation service
cony-burrow
cormous
custom-tailor
Dazkiri
dextriferron
dictateth
digital gradient
dosimetrists
dry cargo time charter freight rate
durous
fast radiochemical separation
fervent
fritillariae bulbus
fully parallel associative processor
fungal meningitis
galactoxyloglucan
Ganle
genus Pyrethrum
governances
halophility
hillsales
hypamnion
ignition interlock
infinity bug
internal sort phase
intraspecific cooperation
isabnormal
La Pampa
leachfield
Littlehampton
manyogana
meson telescope
method of force
mica glass-ceramic
micaceous shale
micro-opaque
missend
moroseness
moscow' saint paul
multipurpose cargo ship
mythemes
nil link
nonaneurysmal
operation characteristic
pest control
pitch slip
pressure unloading
property owner
Quicama
radar axis
receiver protective device (reprod)
retort(ed) food
reuse pattern
Rybnovsk
saturatedness
self-welding of structural materials in liquid sodium
semilunar hiatus
shafting-grounding device
solid-state imaging and biomedical applications
spherical concave and convex mirrors
suck tits
swinging base
take my word
template moulding
Tertry
Tho Vuc
thyrsoidea macrurus
toll pass ticket
True gold does not fear fire
tunnel invert
two-hander
umw (ultra micro waves)
unilateral report
usable flow
used computers
vasomotor tumentia
viewer's role
waxing machine
zandler