时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(四)月


英语课

   Day and night existed long before the first primitive 1 cells coming into being. And that light/dark cycle left its mark on nearly every living thing, microbes, plants, insects, mammals---we all experience circadian rhythms, due to molecular 2 clocks in our cells. But that internal timer affects more than just bedtime. The body's cells may actually divide by the clock, too, in fruit flies at least. Researchers gave fruit flies a form of an inflammatory bowel 3 disease. In response, the flies' intestinal 4 stem cells got busy reparing the gut 5, most of them dividing in sync around dawn. But when researchers blocked the action of two clock genes 6 in the intestine 7, the flies couldn't patch up the damage. Instead of a correlative repair, the cells stalled in various stages of division, indicating that the internal clock plays a role in healing too. Those results appear in the journal Cell Reports. The researchers say the circadian clock might inform healing in us too, since it's such an ancient trait. If so, they say, doctors might want to time surgeries or chemotherapy for when the body is primed to heal, helping 8 patients clock a faster recovery.



1 primitive
adj.原始的;简单的;n.原(始)人,原始事物
  • It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
  • His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。
2 molecular
adj.分子的;克分子的
  • The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms.这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。
  • For the pressure to become zero, molecular bombardment must cease.当压强趋近于零时,分子的碰撞就停止了。
3 bowel
n.肠(尤指人肠);内部,深处
  • Irritable bowel syndrome seems to affect more women than men.女性比男性更易患肠易激综合征。
  • Have you had a bowel movement today?你今天有排便吗?
4 intestinal
adj.肠的;肠壁;肠道细菌
  • A few other conditions are in high intestinal obstruction. 其它少数情况是高位肠梗阻。 来自辞典例句
  • This complication has occasionally occurred following the use of intestinal antiseptics. 这种并发症偶而发生在使用肠道抗菌剂上。 来自辞典例句
5 gut
n.[pl.]胆量;内脏;adj.本能的;vt.取出内脏
  • 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。
6 genes
n.基因( gene的名词复数 )
  • You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因,所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪
7 intestine
adj.内部的;国内的;n.肠
  • This vitamin is absorbed through the walls of the small intestine.这种维生素通过小肠壁被吸收。
  • The service productivity is the function,including external efficiency,intestine efficiency and capacity efficiency.服务业的生产率是一个包含有外部效率、内部效率和能力效率的函数。
8 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
学英语单词
accented contour
ahrendt
alchymic
angle of cut
apprising
articulated suction tube
audio-frequency amplifiers
auto-zero technique
ball table
belting course
bignays
blithemeat
Botende
casing shroud
Castanopsis longispina
cathedrals
chalypite
characteristic-value problem
chasse
childbirths
churchish
clithridium
colour-differences
consciousness of kind
controlled release pesticide
crack whores
daimoku
decomposition vibration
double source single streamer method
drought
eclipse of the sun
eu-sapropel
financial system
fkgp
flame grooving
gavrilov
give hostages to fortune
gnomons
Godthaab
guanamine
hexastich
interchange trisomic belling (1927)
intergenic recombination
internal isotope therapy
iodchromate
jacquard weave
jar-to-signal ratio
jocularly
kambumba
knowledge rating scale
Krupanj
latapectinae
Line turnaround.
load on call
me-too
meteorophobia
Meyer number
mold case
monoiodacetamide
multidirectional martensite
narcine brevilabiata
natural life-span
Notional Principal
one-back
open boat
over-arching weight
Panaitolio
polymeric carrier
poverty grass
professional athlete
prosimians
puncture of cable
quick-closing valve
radio recognition
ranatensin C
re-roofing
registered ship
relocate domicile
secondary emission coefficient
set one's mind on something
sheep plant
ship's signal letters
slurpiest
spheroidal coordinates
Stirone, Torrente
stolidly
taghi
taicolopodacus primus
Talk-knebelite
telephone sets
terminating packet
Thomas Hodgkin
three-note
toluols
Trifon
underdeck void geometry
used fixed assets
water cure
widely-distributed
xiphium
yardmasters
zorrilla