时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(九)月


英语课

 Thinking about getting a new tatoo, Maybe a nice 3D double helix or an I-heart-Higgs Bosons. Well, you might wind up getting some mycobacteria with your body art. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has turned up about two dozen cases of this infection from contaminated tatoo ink. Last January, public health officials in western New York state launched an investigation 1 after a tatoo recipient 2 reported a persistent 3 rash - itchy red bumps all over his new tat. A skin sample tested positive for Mycobacterium chelonae, a microbe common in tap water. A list of the tatoo artist's clients turned up another nineteen cases of the rash including fourteen confirmed infections with the same bug 4. The tatoo parlor 5 itself was clean, no bacteria in the water supply. But a bottle of premixed gray ink turned up positive. This great wash, which is used to give tats a shaded 3D quality, was most likely contaminated during its manufacture and since been recalled. But not before a handful of additional cases cropped up in elsewhere around the country. So if you are really itching 6 to express yourself and tatoo might indeed be just what the doctor ordered. 



1 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
2 recipient
a.接受的,感受性强的 n.接受者,感受者,容器
  • Please check that you have a valid email certificate for each recipient. 请检查是否对每个接收者都有有效的电子邮件证书。
  • Colombia is the biggest U . S aid recipient in Latin America. 哥伦比亚是美国在拉丁美洲最大的援助对象。
3 persistent
adj.坚持不懈的,执意的;持续的
  • Albert had a persistent headache that lasted for three days.艾伯特连续头痛了三天。
  • She felt embarrassed by his persistent attentions.他不时地向她大献殷勤,使她很难为情。
4 bug
n.虫子;故障;窃听器;vt.纠缠;装窃听器
  • There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
  • The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。
5 parlor
n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅
  • She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
  • Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店?
6 itching
adj.贪得的,痒的,渴望的v.发痒( itch的现在分词 )
  • The itching was almost more than he could stand. 他痒得几乎忍不住了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My nose is itching. 我的鼻子发痒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
3'-DADP
algals
artificially inflated cavity
astronomical unit (au)
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Atuila
baffle spray tower
believe in somebody
brain dead, brain-dead
Can you tell me the correct time
canudo
Carrowkeel
cart way
castable rubber
cbcl
cholecystectasia
claym
clerical duties
compensated thermal overload relay
concessional equilibrium
Council on Tribunals
delta rule
derivation of algebra
dick-measuring contest
diecious
dine with Duke Humphrey
dineth
dry-charge smelting
earning report
East Yorkshire
ebonite compound
ECX
emmerams
engineered safeguard
ethernamine
extension polarized bell
fistulotomy
fixingss
flower gardening
freight paid to...terms
full-length cylinder liner
gamow barrier radius
garage band
Gardenburgers
gigaspora alboaurantiaca
give someone the kick
grain moth
hexagon head screw
hidden-size order
huangtu
immunological adjuvant
in one's soul of souls
inside centering ring
jackoes
lignocellulosic
Loss of Broken Stowage
low pressure centrifugal blower
marmot fur
menegazzia asahinae subimpertusa
multifactorial inheritance
multilevel vectored interrupt logic
murkins
Naziya
Nephelium topengii
new-dressed
non-plastic powder
omy
oral aphthae during menstruation
overturn circulation
pathologicalepidemiological
PBREM
pitch-angle gyroscope
plateau gravel
poop sb out
posterosuperior
propanoldiacid
pseudohistorical
pykars
regulation of voltage phase
repellencies
Rheum undulatum L.
rotary probability screen
San Guillermo, Cerro
scanning amplifier
schwartzmann phenomenon
self locking fastener
shift conversion
somatoaxonic synapse
specific gravity sorter
submarine communication cable
Sunnitic
Supur
taskboard
trigger valve
two-colour radiation thermometer
unwarranted growth
velocity of propagation of electromagnetic waves in vacuum
well-compacted
withweed
wool skins
xlv
zaibatsu combine