【英语时差8,16】青霉素的历史
时间：2019-03-06 作者：英语课 分类：英语时差8，16
Today, a fever is an uncomfortable nuisance, but a hundred-plus years ago, fevers were often fatal. The difference between then and now is the class of drugs known as antibiotics 1. As the name implies, “anti-biotics” work “against life,” or, more specifically, against living cells. While other drugs, such as aspirin 2, ease the symptoms of a disease, antibiotics attack the living bacteria that are causing the symptoms. The modern discovery of antibiotics is usually attributed to Alexander Fleming, who was the first to isolate 3 and name “penicillin.” But the basis for Fleming’s work had begun over fifty years before. In 1874, another English scientist, William Roberts, noticed that some fungi 4 were immune to bacteria. Later on, the French scientist Louis Pasteur noticed that bacteria stopped growing if they became infected with a microscopic 5 fungus 6 called “penicillium.”
- the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现
- The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。
- The aspirin seems to quiet the headache.阿司匹林似乎使头痛减轻了。
- She went into a chemist's and bought some aspirin.她进了一家药店，买了些阿司匹林。
- Do not isolate yourself from others.不要把自己孤立起来。
- We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.我们永远不能脱离群众。
- Students practice to apply the study of genetics to multicellular plants and fungi.学生们练习把基因学应用到多细胞植物和真菌中。
- The lawn was covered with fungi.草地上到处都是蘑菇。
- It's impossible to read his microscopic handwriting.不可能看清他那极小的书写字迹。
- A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.植物的肺就是其叶片上微细的气孔。