科学美国人60秒 SSS 酒店有臭虫？可能是假的！
时间：2019-01-20 作者：英语课 分类：2017年Scientific American(六)月
Some Hotel Bed Bug 1 Sightings May Be Bogus 酒店有臭虫？可能是假的！
If you're a savvy 2 traveler, when you hunt for a hotel you probably search TripAdvisor for any mention of bed bugs 3. But here's the dirty secret behind those bed bug sightings: "The fact that roughly two thirds of travelers can't pick a bed bug out of a lineup means that probably in some cases these are unsubstantiated reports." Mike Potter, an entomology professor at the University of Kentucky.
如果你也是个精明的旅行者，那么你找酒店时可能会通过“猫途鹰”（TripAdvisor）搜索一切提到臭虫的信息。但在这些发现臭虫的事件背后，有一个晦暗的秘密:“事实上，大约三分之二的旅行者无法辨认出臭虫，这就意味着在某些情况下，那些可能是查无实据的报告。”迈克·波特——肯塔基大学的一名昆虫学教授。
\He and his colleagues quizzed 2,000 business and leisure travelers on their bedbug ID skills, through an online survey—asking them to select the bed bug silhouette 4 in a lineup that also included ants, termites 5, lice and ticks. Only a third of the respondents correctly nailed the bed bug.
他和同事们通过一项在线调查，对2000名商务和休闲旅行者进行了臭虫识别技能调查。调查中要求他们在一组包括蚂蚁、白蚁、虱子和扁虱在内的虫子中选出臭虫。只有三分之一的调查对象正确地认出了臭虫。
And those incorrect insect IDs could hit hotel owners hard. Because more than half the survey takers said they'd book a different hotel if they saw just one review mentioning the bloodsuckers. Potter's co-author Jerrod Penn, an economist 6: "The implications of not knowing what a bed bug really is, and just kind of jumping to the worst conclusion—it can be costly 7 for people."
而那些没有正确识别出臭虫的人可能会给酒店带来沉重打击。因为半数以上的受访者表示，哪怕他们仅看到一篇提及臭虫的评论，他们也会预订一家不同的酒店。波特的合作者、经济学家杰罗德·佩恩说:“不了解臭虫的真正含义，就给出最糟糕的结论——这会使他人付出高昂代价。”
The study is in the journal American Entomologist.
这项研究发表在《美国昆虫学家》杂志上。
Some cities, like New York, already require landlords to disclose past bed bug infestations 9. And 80 percent of survey respondents want hotels to do the same—even if the infestation 8 is long gone. Armed with that knowledge, good luck sleeping tight.
一些城市，如纽约，已经明确要求房东公开曾经有无臭虫侵扰的信息。80%的受访者希望酒店也能做到这一点——即使臭虫侵扰早已不复存在。了解了这些信息以后，希望你能睡个好觉。
- There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
- The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。
- She was a pretty savvy woman.她是个见过世面的漂亮女人。
- Where's your savvy?你的常识到哪里去了？
- 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》
- I could see its black silhouette against the evening sky.我能看到夜幕下它黑色的轮廓。
- I could see the silhouette of the woman in the pickup.我可以见到小卡车的女人黑色半身侧面影。
- Termites are principally tropical in distribution. 白蚁主要分布在热带地区。 来自辞典例句
- This spray will exterminate the termites. 这种喷剂能消灭白蚁。 来自辞典例句
- He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
- He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。
- It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
- This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。
- The premises were treated for cockroach infestation.因蟑螂成灾，这些房屋集中进行了灭蟑活动。
- Parts of California are suffering from an infestation of oriental fruit flies.加利福尼亚的部分地区正遭受东方果蝇的大肆侵袭。
- The arrival of warm weather raises the specter of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage. 天气转暖使人们担心垃圾腐烂会引起疾病传播和鼠群猖獗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Piperazine citrate is the drug of choice in the treatment of Ascaris infestations. 枸橼酸哌嗪治疗蛔虫感染是最好的药物。 来自辞典例句