新型面料有助于避免尘螨过敏
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2015年(十月)
New Fabric 1 Helps Fight Dust-Related Allergies 2 新型面料有助于避免尘螨过敏
Many people around the world suffer from dust-related allergies, caused mainly by tiny mites 3 that live in bed linen 4. Polish scientists report they have successfully tested a fabric that is impenetrable to the microscopic 5 creatures.
We don’t like to think about it, but most of us share our beds with thousands of tiny, 0.3-millimeter wide creatures called dust mites.
Even more disagreeable is the fact that, along with ordinary house dust, we breathe in their feces, which contains enzymes 6 called proteases. These, in turn can cause symptoms from mild wheezing 7 and coughing to severe asthma 8 attacks.
Dust mites are notoriously hard to get rid of, especially from bed linen, because they can easily pass through pores in the fabric.
Barbara Majkowska-Wojciechowska of Lodz Medical University is part of a team that has created a new way to fight dust mites.
“Our method here has allowed us to create a barrier for dust mites and allergens. This is unique,” she said.
Unlike most other anti-allergen fabrics 9, the new material stops the mites but allows the passage of air and moisture. That makes the sheets more comfortable.
Allergy 10 sufferers who tested it say the symptoms were reduced up to 70 percent.
“They told us that they have finally begun to sleep normally in bed, because they had previously 11 struggled with sleep and it was really tough for them. They could not even lie in their beds because they suffered from asthma attacks, stuffy 12 nose, and watery 13 eyes. Suddenly they began to sleep,” said Majkowska-Wojciechowska.
Researchers say repeated washing did not reduce the anti-allergic feature of the new fabric. They expect that after additional testing it will be ready for the market.
In the meantime, dust allergy sufferers are advised to keep their homes dry, vacuum floors often and wash their bed linen in hot water.
- The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
- I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。
- Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms. 食物过敏会引发很多不同的症状。 来自辞典例句
- Let us, however, examine one of the most common allergies; hayfever. 现在让我们来看看最常见的变态反应的一种--枯草热。 来自辞典例句
- The only discovered animals are water bears, mites, microscopic rotifers. 能够发现的动物只有海蜘蛛、螨和微小的轮虫。 来自辞典例句
- Mites are frequently found on eggs. 螨会经常出现在蛋上。 来自辞典例句
- The worker is starching the linen.这名工人正在给亚麻布上浆。
- Fine linen and cotton fabrics were known as well as wool.精细的亚麻织品和棉织品像羊毛一样闻名遐迩。
- It's impossible to read his microscopic handwriting.不可能看清他那极小的书写字迹。
- A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.植物的肺就是其叶片上微细的气孔。
- It was said that washing powders containing enzymes remove stains more efficiently. 据说加酶洗衣粉除污更有效。
- Among the enzymes which are particularly effective are pepsin, papain. 在酶当中特别有效的是胃朊酶、木瓜酶。
- He was coughing and wheezing all night. 他整夜又咳嗽又喘。
- A barrel-organ was wheezing out an old tune. 一架手摇风琴正在呼哧呼哧地奏着一首古老的曲子。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- I think he's having an asthma attack.我想他现在是哮喘病发作了。
- Its presence in allergic asthma is well known.它在过敏性气喘中的存在是大家很熟悉的。
- cotton fabrics and synthetics 棉织物与合成织物
- The fabrics are merchandised through a network of dealers. 通过经销网点销售纺织品。
- He developed an allergy to pollen.他对花粉过敏。
- The patient had an allergy to penicillin.该患者对青霉素过敏。
- The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
- Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。
- It's really hot and stuffy in here.这里实在太热太闷了。
- It was so stuffy in the tent that we could sense the air was heavy with moisture.帐篷里很闷热，我们感到空气都是潮的。