美国科学60秒 SSS 2015-01-30
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：2015年Scientific American(一)月
英语课
This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
Planning to attend a Super Bowl party in Boston or Seattle this Sunday? If so, you might think twice about sticking your chips in the communal 1 dip. Because such dippy activity is cited in a new study that finds that cities with a team in the Super Bowl go on to experience a spike 2 in death influenza 3. The findings are described in an article by researchers at Tulane University and the College of William and Mary. Football is a contact sport and watching the game is largely with contact, too. On Super Bowl Sunday, fans gather close together on couches and bar stools to cheer for their teams. But the contest takes place at the height of flu season, which made researchers wonder whether spectators in close corders might be sharing more than not chosen ones. So the investigators 4 looked at mortality data from 1974 through 2009. And they found that sending a team to the Super Bowl cause an 18 percent increase in flu deaths among those over 65 in the two towns. The senior citizens don’t even have to watch the game to be at increased risk, they could catch the virus from someone else who picked up at a party or the pub. And the death toll 5 is higher in years when the flu is more severe, like this season. So when you watch, also wash your hands frequently. That way, when your favorite wideout makes a big catch, you won’t catch something, too.
1 communal
adj.公有的，公共的，公社的，公社制的
- There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats.在楼梯平台上有一处公共卫生间供4套公寓使用。
- The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state.厕所及其他公共设施的状况极其糟糕。
2 spike
n.长钉，钉鞋；v.以大钉钉牢，使...失效
- The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
- They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。
3 influenza
n.流行性感冒，流感
- They took steps to prevent the spread of influenza.他们采取措施
- Influenza is an infectious disease.流感是一种传染病。
4 investigators
n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》