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
adolescente
ascochyta hortorum (speg.)smith
attention-deficit syndrome
auxiliary power rate
barratrously
batching scale
Bessemer, Sir Henry
branflake
Camellia oblata
central oval
cerebellar agenesia hemisphere
Clausena wampi
Cold Hesledon
compensatory spendings
concaveness
countersniper
CTMS
cyberwarfare
data distribution plan
debris avalanche
depeculation
devroes
dina
Dulab
dyer
edge punched card
employer strike insurance
environmental informatics
epsomsalt
eye survey
flat cure
folke
foursquares
free-exercise
genuinetissue
genus lardizabalas
genus Sarcoptes
have an edge over
helicopter flight
holburne
Hungarish
in public hands
incorrect flame
interparticle structure
inverse time-delay operation
joseph listers
juga cerebralia
kidney beans
Killyman
King William I.
lady-flies
lensless Fourier transform hologram
Leonora
liquid-nitrogen charcoal trap
lymphocystivirus lymphocystis disease
Manambondro
mangano
marginatum
mariori
married student
meso method
Metrodin
microvolumes
Mnichovo Hradiště
moving-coil-type instrument
Musculus transversus linguae
needylie
nitric bacteria
nonadditively
now and again
optical wavelength meters
palu
pen-type graver
personal outlay
proned
property-data
push socket
quindecagons
salvo fire
scrap conveyer
sellafield
sheep dip
single-break contacts
sorting/merging
sources and uses of working capital
SRNs
stamp ink
stationary random action
stock exchange expression
subbreed
take ship
tasteable
time cam
tool write up card
total government revenue
totally-enclosed water-cooled type
triangular bone (or triguetrale bone)
trypsine
Tugtun
well-boned
wicketless
Zambezian