SSS 2008-10-22
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(十)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute.
There’s a push now to find the fuel of the future. Will it come from corn? Sugarcane? How about bugs 1? University of Florida entomologist Michael Scharf says termites 3 may play a major role. He makes that claim in the November issue of the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining.
Termites produce enzymes 4. Those enzymes work with microorganisms in the bug’s gut 5. When termites munch 6 their way through your house, the enzymes and microbes together turn wood into simple sugars. Biofuels today come from edible 7 plant material, such as starch 8 in corn or sugar in sugarcane. There’s a great deal of potential energy in tougher parts of the plants, but it’s locked in something called lignocellulose. Researchers have been investigating heating the woody material, or grinding it and treating it. And a handful of research groups are studying the termite 2 system.
Scientists have identified a few of the enzymes and microbes involved, but they say it’ll take more research and time to apply this system to our own hunger for biofuels. We may also need to turn to other munching 9 bugs like wood-boring beetles 10. Maybe someday they’ll be heating our homes, not eating them.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.
- All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞，都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The termite control was also probed into further in this text.本文还进一步探讨了白蚁的防治方法。
- Termite often destroys wood.白蚁经常破坏树木。
- Termites are principally tropical in distribution. 白蚁主要分布在热带地区。 来自辞典例句
- This spray will exterminate the termites. 这种喷剂能消灭白蚁。 来自辞典例句
- It was said that washing powders containing enzymes remove stains more efficiently. 据说加酶洗衣粉除污更有效。
- Among the enzymes which are particularly effective are pepsin, papain. 在酶当中特别有效的是胃朊酶、木瓜酶。
- It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.冷冻鱼之前并不总是需要先把内脏掏空。
- My immediate gut feeling was to refuse.我本能的直接反应是拒绝。
- We watched her munch through two packets of peanuts.我们看她津津有味地嚼了两包花生米。
- Getting them to munch on vegetable dishes was more difficult.使他们吃素菜就比较困难了。
- Edible wild herbs kept us from dying of starvation.我们靠着野菜才没被饿死。
- This kind of mushroom is edible,but that kind is not.这种蘑菇吃得，那种吃不得。
- Corn starch is used as a thickener in stews.玉米淀粉在炖煮菜肴中被用作增稠剂。
- I think there's too much starch in their diet.我看是他们的饮食里淀粉太多了。