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
-folia
1-Testolactone
achillo-
acocanthera venenatas
acute transformation of chronic myelocytic leukemia
agglomerate table
alternate exception action
alternative journalism
annular impactor
approach method
be riddled with
beechwood sugar
Beer-thirty
bello
bivalent atom
boreout
botany
bullhead rails
business groups
button-spot weld
Cartagena Agreement
cdv(cell delay variation)
chain fission
Charlie-Gibbs fracture zone
chefoo
cheirinine
close link chain
constant reaction design
continuous mill
cordite
crop physiology
cut-off radiation
De Meritens alternator
dobee
dynamic differential calorimetry
electrodynamometer type impedance meter
electrostatic discharge
eremophilas
Exton's quantitative reagent
faustoes
flippy disk
floor rug
fluid-intake
friga
glasscutting
grab
hand-held microphone
high - energy particle
high curie point alloy
high pressure steam pipe
humic andosols
Huntsman, Benjamin
I (input)
language learner
leading brush edge
lemon yellows
magnoliaceous
Maputo, Prov.de
MARSOF
mccay
middlebox
mirror canon
mounded
multicellar
Niimi
normal arterial pressure
on-plane
oneparameter
other mechanism in common use
ozonizations
paragraph unit
photographic detection
pliofilm
porcupine fishes
potty-train
pulsed neutron die-away method
punched tape code
pyroscope
rabbling door
raft-section driving
ReLC
ripple through carry unit
roll motor
sea surface bubble layer
simple volume
simpson mill
SPGR
spinal stimulant
stirruppiece
straw berry tomato
supermoto
supply mother seed
tenter pin
test functions
tetradecyl acetate
to go astray
total system tape
ucelli
UKPIA
waymaker
whim-wham
zorbs