美国国家公共电台 NPR Cockroach Milk: Yes. You Read That Right
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：2016年NPR美国国家公共电台8月
Cockroach 1 Milk: Yes. You Read That Right
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Is there a time in the future when the voice of a barista might ring out, latte with cockroach milk? Pour a cup of coffee while we tell you about the female Pacific beetle 2 cockroach. She does not lay eggs like most insects. She gives birth to live babies.
BARBARA STAY: It's a delightful 3 little cockroach, not the kind that runs in sewers 4 and is a pest in kitchens and bakeries.
SIMON: That's Barbara Stay. She was working in a lab at the University of Iowa when she discovered that Pacific cockroach beetle embryos 5 take in food from their mother.
STAY: What they were drinking that was being produced by the food sack - by the uterus, essentially 6, of the mother - was a liquid substances that they were sucking in. But in the gut 7, crystals formed. And so it was after I discovered they were drinking it that I saw these crystals in the gut.
SIMON: Another researcher, Professor Subramanian Ramaswamy in Bangalore, India, took a closer look at those crystals.
SUBRAMANIAN RAMASWAMY: It turns out that weight by weight, this is three times more calorific value than, say, buffalo 8 milk.
SIMON: That's three times richer in calories than buffalo milk. One scientist apparently 9 took a taste of the yellowish substance and found it tasted like nothing. So you could, in theory, splash it into coffee or pour it over cornflakes. So could a competitive health food market that already stocks cow, goat, almond, soy, cashew, hemp 10, rice and coconut 11 milk now see cockroach milk as the next superfood?
RAMASWAMY: In principle, it's a protein coming from a living organism, so in principle it should be fine. But today, there is no evidence that it is actually safe for human consumption.
SIMON: What a relief. Cockroaches 12 must be hard to milk anyway.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head off.蟑螂在头被切掉后仍能活好几个星期。
- She screamed when she found a cockroach in her bed.她在床上找到一只蟑螂时大声尖叫。
- A firefly is a type of beetle.萤火虫是一种甲虫。
- He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.我看见树叶上有一只闪闪发光的绿色甲虫。
- We had a delightful time by the seashore last Sunday.上星期天我们在海滨玩得真痛快。
- Peter played a delightful melody on his flute.彼得用笛子吹奏了一支欢快的曲子。
- The sewers discharge out at sea. 下水道的污水排入海里。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Another municipal waste problem is street runoff into storm sewers. 有关都市废水的另外一个问题是进入雨水沟的街道雨水。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
- Somatic cells of angiosperms enter a regenerative phase and behave like embryos. 被子植物体细胞进入一个生殖阶段，而且其行为象胚。 来自辞典例句
- Evolution can explain why human embryos look like gilled fishes. 进化论能够解释为什么人类的胚胎看起来象除去了内脏的鱼一样。 来自辞典例句
- Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
- She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
- It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.冷冻鱼之前并不总是需要先把内脏掏空。
- My immediate gut feeling was to refuse.我本能的直接反应是拒绝。
- Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
- The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- The early Chinese built suspension bridges of hemp rope.古代的中国人建造过麻绳悬索桥。
- The blanket was woven from hemp and embroidered with wool.毯子是由亚麻编织，羊毛镶边的。
- The husk of this coconut is particularly strong.椰子的外壳很明显非常坚固。
- The falling coconut gave him a terrific bang on the head.那只掉下的椰子砰地击中他的脑袋。
- At night, the cockroaches filled the house with their rustlings. 夜里，屋里尽是蟑螂窸窸瑟瑟的声音。 来自辞典例句
- It loves cockroaches, and can keep a house clear of these hated insects. 它们好食蟑螂，可以使住宅免除这些讨厌昆虫的骚扰。 来自百科语句