时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:60秒科学


英语课

Want to feed a hungry world? According to David Gracer, add bugs 1 to the menu. Gracer is, he says, a normal guy who’s also an entomophagist, an advocate for insects as food. He gave a talk about ingesting insects at a May 16th TEDxCambridge conference called “How We Eat.” The event was a spin-off of the popular TED 2 talks.


Here’s one of the reasons Gracer’s a fan: "They can’t give us pandemics. So the mass production of insects—farm insects—really easy. There’s no cricket flu on par 3 with avian flu or swine flu or E. coli."


And then there’s this: "Look, crickets are not better than beef in every category, just most of them."


Gracer says a bowl of grasshoppers 4 has more vitamins than beef and is lower in fat—and uses far fewer resources to produce. Our disgust for insects is just cultural, Gracer says. After all, we eat lobsters 5, which are arthropods, as are insects. Ready to crunch 6 a cicada?

 



adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误
  • All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞,都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
vt.翻晒,撒,撒开
  • The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
  • She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
n.标准,票面价值,平均数量;adj.票面的,平常的,标准的
  • Sales of nylon have been below par in recent years.近年来尼龙织品的销售额一直不及以往。
  • I don't think his ability is on a par with yours.我认为他的能力不能与你的能力相媲美。
n.蚱蜢( grasshopper的名词复数 );蝗虫;蚂蚱;(孩子)矮小的
  • Grasshoppers die in fall. 蚱蜢在秋天死去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • There are usually a lot of grasshoppers in the rice fields. 稻田里通常有许多蚱蜢。 来自辞典例句
龙虾( lobster的名词复数 ); 龙虾肉
  • I have no idea about how to prepare those cuttlefish and lobsters. 我对如何烹调那些乌贼和龙虾毫无概念。
  • She sold me a couple of live lobsters. 她卖了几只活龙虾给我。
n.关键时刻;艰难局面;v.发出碎裂声
  • If it comes to the crunch they'll support us.关键时刻他们是会支持我们的。
  • People who crunch nuts at the movies can be very annoying.看电影时嘎吱作声地嚼干果的人会使人十分讨厌。
学英语单词
Abhidhamma, Pitaka
airwell
alternate communication
as heavy as a bag of as lead
at the other extreme
Atodabanian Age
birah (bire)
Blue Grass belle
Bragg-Kleeman rule
BRCT
butt joining
C-message filter
capital-in-excess account
cementstone group
chart recording paper
chemoreceptivity
Chinese white dolphin
claim the moral high ground
clike
color holography
colour filter
commercial policy
common calamint
compensator valve
continuous-random network
cranked fish plate
damping parameter
davisonite
differential teaction rate
discharge of sewage
dispersoid distribution
double eccentric gear
earth rubber
Elie Metchnikov
empty-headedness
endolasers
english slang
epifluorescence
f.i.o.
fettle
fixed-width
fluid pulse converter
fluvicoline
fragmentation of nucleus
glaucomatous fleck
graphic elements
groupmate
healfb-education
high-dependency
hold with sth
identity crisis
induced spread
iraimbilanja
ivory gull
Kimpoko
leiotropic
Lepidosaphinae
linear lightning
linearly polarised mode
lungee
media cultivation effect
microcytase
newnesses
Newtonian capacity
nonlower
ompr
overlooked
pemmatites
petaurus breviceps
pinup girl
pneumatic piston servo-drive
prefuse
protein clock
psychosocial functioning
pulsation pole
radioactive tracer gas
rami superior
red-bag
reevacuate
reinterviews
relative cold loss
rule interpreter
shot our mouth off
single face telegraph
some here
sophisticated electronic diagnostic system
soundness of cement
sparry intraclastic calcarenite
stemmles
sterling balances
straight-line motion mechanism
sturnus vulgaris poltaratskyi
surface mounted luminaire
synthetic syntonic circuit
the daughter of fire
Thiobacteriales
trailed tractor plow
trehearne
trichinous
vena thoracalis lateralis
wildebeest
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