时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:朗文3L看听学英语第四册


英语课

  Lesson 53 Television Day: Penicillin 1

TV Commentary:

If you leave a piece of bread in a warm damp place, mould will soon grow in it. When this happens, we say that bread "has gone mouldy". Mould can grow on all kinds of things besides food-on leather, clothing, even on wood. It grows from tiny spores 3 which are in the air. Each spore 2 is like a little mushroom. If the conditions are right, a single spore can quickly spread and form a mould. It is extremely common and we have all noticed it.

In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming found that mould and killed some germs he was trying to grow in his laboratory. If he had not noticed this, the world would have lost one of the greatest discoveries of the century. Fleming called the substance "penicillin". Because penicillin can kill germs, doctors use it to treat diseases. It has saved millions of lives. Scientists grow enormous quantities of common mould so that they can get penicillin from it in order to make antibiotics 4, that is, substances that kill germs. Next time you see some mould on a piece of bread, remember that it is one of man's greatest friends!



1 penicillin
n.青霉素,盘尼西林
  • I should have asked him for a shot of penicillin.我应当让他给我打一针青霉素的。
  • Penicillin was an extremely significant medical discovery.青霉素是极其重要的医学发现。
2 spore
n.(无花植物借以繁殖的)孢子,芽胞
  • A spore can quickly spread and form a mould.一个孢子能迅速蔓延并形成霉。
  • The cation penetrates the spore.这种阳离子能透入孢子。
3 spores
n.(细菌、苔藓、蕨类植物)孢子( spore的名词复数 )v.(细菌、苔藓、蕨类植物)孢子( spore的第三人称单数 )
  • Ferns, mosses and fungi spread by means of spores. 蕨类植物、苔藓和真菌通过孢子传播蔓生。
  • Spores form a lipid membrane during the process of reproducing. 孢于在生殖过程中形成类脂膜。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 预防生物武器
4 antibiotics
n.(用作复数)抗生素;(用作单数)抗生物质的研究;抗生素,抗菌素( antibiotic的名词复数 )
  • 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。
学英语单词
active noise control technique
active stage
Adzope
antibonding orbital function
arabs-arabs
asymptotic speed
AULOPIFORMES
autonomous parameter
azmath
battery-backed
beefmaster
beer keg
bivalved, bivalvular
CC language
chlamys radula
circular sector
cirrhosis of lung
clinical applications
COBOL transaction program
colipases
community debt
composite experiment design
coxib
cuproenzymes
cutter grinding wheel
data language/i
deep-sea anchorage
differential operational amplifier
differential read-out
ergograms
feel short of
fensterwald
go bloody
grubstake
HID50
individual level type all-relay inter-locking
inter-nodal distance
isallobaric line
Jinning movement
knots true airspeed (ktas)
Lakes Entrance
landlord's lien
liability for breach
lignumvitae
local flight regulations (lfr)
machinability rating
Marktbreit
mean-time
melarsomine
mima
moussas
musical accent
Netherburn
new price
nymphicuss
omegashaped
Ouham-Pendé, Préfect.du
paglias
partial abortion
pashanensis
plagiogyria japonica nakai
pneumohypoxia
polarimeter cell
powder strip
printable CD
progressive palmoplantar keratoderma
promitosis
Pularin-Ca
queenlets
Recycle mark
reference performance
reflection gain factor
resin soap
response language
rivellia fusca
Rupert River
ruralized
scotino
scretin
second time at right angles to the first
Seven Islands B.
Soluvita
Squelch.
state of tension
storage table
straight amortization plan
strumpery
superior to
take something seriously
Teldrin
toll-houses
traction thrust
traditional Mongolian medicine
translation wave
trichostatins
unbrace
various methods of seadbed preparation
water surplus
watercoloring
weather freezing
wind someone round one's fingers