SSS 2008-04-04
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(四)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
Bacteria are amazingly adaptable 1. They live in hot springs, in the dead sea and of course inside people where they can dish up some truly nasty diseases. Over the years many of these crafty 2 critters have figured out how to dodge 3 the antibiotics 4 we use to kill them, usually by chewing the drugs up and spitting them out. Now researchers from Harvard Medical School have figured out that in the soil there are bacteria that are not only immune to our antibiotics, they eat antibiotics for breakfast. The discovery appears in the April 4 issue of Science. The scientists collected a diverse sample of soils, from cornfields, forests, swamps even the Boston public garden. From this dirt they isolated 5 hundreds of different bacteria that could grow in a broth 6 that contained nothing to eat except a great big helping 7 of antibiotics. The fact that the ground is teeming 8 with drug munching 9 bugs 10 might seem surprising but remember most of our antibiotics come from organisms that live in the dirt, like moulds and even other bacteria. With that kind of exposure some bugs are bound to figure out how to turn these potential toxins 11 into a tasty snack. The danger for us is that they will share these recipes with their disease-causing pals 12.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
- He is an adaptable man and will soon learn the new work.他是个适应性很强的人，很快就将学会这种工作。
- The soil is adaptable to the growth of peanuts.这土壤适宜于花生的生长。
- He admired the old man for his crafty plan.他敬佩老者的神机妙算。
- He was an accomplished politician and a crafty autocrat.他是个有造诣的政治家，也是个狡黠的独裁者。
- A dodge behind a tree kept her from being run over.她向树后一闪，才没被车从身上辗过。
- The dodge was coopered by the police.诡计被警察粉碎了。
- the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现
- The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。
- His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
- Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
- Every cook praises his own broth.厨子总是称赞自己做的汤。
- Just a bit of a mouse's dropping will spoil a whole saucepan of broth.一粒老鼠屎败坏一锅汤。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The rain was teeming down. 大雨倾盆而下。
- the teeming streets of the city 熙熙攘攘的城市街道
- He was munching an apple. 他在津津有味地嚼着苹果。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Munching the apple as he was, he had an eye for all her movements. 他虽然啃着苹果，但却很留神地监视着她的每一个动作。 来自辞典例句
- 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》
- The seas have been used as a receptacle for a range of industrial toxins. 海洋成了各种有毒工业废料的大容器。
- Most toxins are naturally excreted from the body. 大部分毒素被自然排出体外。 来自《简明英汉词典》