时间:2019-02-23 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

Hey Don, do you like asparagus? Yep, I love it Yael, can't get enough. But don't you notice there's a certain problem after you've eaten it? Problem? Yeah, everybody knows that eating asparagus can cause a rather unpleasant smell in your urine. I didn't know that. Oh, that's right. Not everybody is an excretor of the odoriferous compound. And not everybody can perceive the odor, either. Both those traits are genetic 1. But what causes it? well, that's a good question. No one’s really sure. We do know that the pungent 2 chemical is some kind of sulfur 3 based compound. But scientists have been trying to find the exact identity of it since the 1890s.More recently, researchers found out that the smell is actually caused by a malodorous cocktail 4 of six sulfur containing compounds.



adj.遗传的,遗传学的
  • It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
  • Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
adj.(气味、味道)刺激性的,辛辣的;尖锐的
  • The article is written in a pungent style.文章写得泼辣。
  • Its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts.它的刺激性气味会令恐怖分子窒息,迫使他们从藏身地点逃脱出来。
n.硫,硫磺(=sulphur)
  • Sulfur emissions from steel mills become acid rain.炼钢厂排放出的硫形成了酸雨。
  • Burning may produce sulfur oxides.燃烧可能会产生硫氧化物。
n.鸡尾酒;餐前开胃小吃;混合物
  • We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
  • At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上,人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。
学英语单词
absorption bottle
AcMNPV
administrative planning
atms
b-words
bavenite (pilinite)
BcarnesineCarnitine
beady
boiler hydraulic pressure test
broad-scaler
carburettor float
chianese
chromidrose plantaire
chromosome jumping library
clear-cut majority
convertible securities
cottering
cusp circle
de-humanize
dipsy-do (o)
disiloxanoxy-
drawing color
eddy-making
electric soldering iron
electrogastrogram
fair's fair
fakeness
fift
flare nuclei
Fletcherise
foreign body on cornea
fricking
gabellini
gas leakage indicator
gastrodin
gold settlement fund
ground gradient
gustatory nuclei
have have got one's bellyful
high forceps
hit where it hurts
holding our breath
horse-drawn vehicles
indian grackles
inter diffusion
intermediate for dye
isolation index
ligamenta colli costae
littuit
low-solubility glaze
make employ of
malus prattii (hemsl.) schneid.
marsh teas
mathematical statement
metallic lacquer
millars
minimum remembering circuit
motukoreaite
muscles of head
nasal eczema
neoevonine
nmod
notocentrum
overcompliments
peak cringle
perelandra
Pet Mogili
piece concept
piet mondrians
polishing departement
polymer impregnated concrete
porte cochere
Primovlar
quick-reaction system
rach
Ranunculus yaoanus
rbap
resewed
resistive ink
RIVD
rosenzweigs
rotating arc pipe welding machine
rune-staff
Salix alatavica
Salix lasiopes
sight
social productivity
spreading hopper capacity
ST_doing-and-achieving_hurrying-and-doing-things-quickly
stand aloof
superclass gnathostomatas
the dust and heat of the day
towners
training coordinator
Ts'ao Kuo-chiu
untapped aquifer
uwma
Valle de Banderas
ventral furrow
worksuit
Zaporizhzhia
zoo plane