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
access consideration
adverting
Amiphos
anthropomantist
automatic winding
autopsia in vivo
backsource
breach of discipline
brown wood pulp
burst emphasis
carnot clausius inequality
Chelidamine
color development reaction
continuous crime
corn-yellow
cost parameter
cup holder
curve-tracing oscilloscope
cutting off machine
data sheets
Decca navigation
degree of hardness
dextrinized
distitarsal
drying and heat setting stenter
eMMC
expurgates
flank steak
flashing-lights
graphical performance
half-lost
high-frequency iron
hospital order
Huriez syndrome
i-cunned
indexed set
individual drawing system
inotropes
judaically
kept off
Keweenaw Point
kick-off shunting
Kokemäenjoki
Koroikovu I.
laser bonding
latent capital
lead up the ball
ligamenta articuli cricothyreoidei
lissocarcinus laevis
location-dependent data
long pair twist quad
lug driving angle
main nutrient elements
maleamide
manipulanda
most-advanced
motor-driven feed pump
muckety-mucks
multilayer and chainlinking material
news flash
NNCC
optimal replacement algorithm
Pebo
pine snake
polar bonded phase
priority of partition
privacy transformation
pseudostroma
qatif (al qatif)
radiated ray
radio-equipped inertial navigation system
rehabilitate
relative redundancy
return a verdict
RISSOIDEA
robbo
rose fever
saberman
safety valve easing
salicylisms
sample functions
self-loadings
self-organizings
skilled occupation
slide warmer
softswitch
St-Léger-sous-Beuvray
stoechiology
sub-carrier wave
tannats
That's like taking a candy from a baby.
top-for-bottom
total extension
two-dimensional nucleation
umberere
unilateral constraint
vasa vitellina
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
wild parsleys
wirewalker
wyspa
zoficonazole