时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:2017年Scientific American(二)月


英语课

 


“There are sort of three main ways that our species has developed to break down foods, or process foods, in a primordial 1 way. And that is by cooking, by fermenting 2 foods and by drying them or desiccating them.”


Paul Breslin, professor of nutritional 3 sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey 4. He’s also a member of the Monell Chemical Sciences Center in Philadelphia.


“And the first two, cooking and fermenting, are older than our species is. Homo sapiens sapiens came about in the presence of fire. And probably eating some fermented 5 foods, since that happens spontaneously.”


Breslin spoke 6 February 20th at a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 7 of Science in Boston.


“So I think that we may be unique among the apes in that we can detect when a food has been cooked or fermented. And that this allows us to identify the benefits of those, which is that they’re detoxified, they have greater available nutrients 8, and they are, in the case of fermented foods, going to have probiotics—or good microbes that we want and need in our intestines 9 in order to survive in the world.…


“The second leading cause of death of children on Earth today is diarrhea, following pneumonia 10, which is number one. And that diarrheal disease is in fact the most common disease on Earth in humans. And that eating fermented foods, properly fermented foods of any kind, can in fact deliver probiotics, which help prevent these diseases. And I believe could in fact save lives if they were more commonly adopted in society.”


—Steve Mirsky



1 primordial
adj.原始的;最初的
  • It is the primordial force that propels us forward.它是推动我们前进的原始动力。
  • The Neanderthal Man is one of our primordial ancestors.的尼安德特人是我们的原始祖先之一.
2 fermenting
v.(使)发酵( ferment的现在分词 );(使)激动;骚动;骚扰
  • The fermenting wine has bubbled up and over the top. 发酵的葡萄酒已经冒泡,溢了出来。 来自辞典例句
  • It must be processed through methods like boiling, grinding or fermenting. 它必须通过煮沸、研磨、或者发酵等方法加工。 来自互联网
3 nutritional
adj.营养的,滋养的
  • A diet lacking in nutritional value will not keep a person healthy.缺乏营养价值的饮食不能维持人的健康。
  • The labels on food products give a lot of information about their nutritional content.食品上的标签提供很多关于营养成分的信息。
4 jersey
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
5 fermented
v.(使)发酵( ferment的过去式和过去分词 );(使)激动;骚动;骚扰
  • When wine is fermented, it gives off gas. 酒发酵时发出气泡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His speeches fermented trouble among the workers. 他的演讲在工人中引起骚动。 来自辞典例句
6 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
7 advancement
n.前进,促进,提升
  • His new contribution to the advancement of physiology was well appreciated.他对生理学发展的新贡献获得高度赞赏。
  • The aim of a university should be the advancement of learning.大学的目标应是促进学术。
8 nutrients
n.(食品或化学品)营养物,营养品( nutrient的名词复数 )
  • a lack of essential nutrients 基本营养的缺乏
  • Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. 营养素被吸收进血液。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 intestines
n.肠( intestine的名词复数 )
  • Perhaps the most serious problems occur in the stomach and intestines. 最严重的问题或许出现在胃和肠里。 来自辞典例句
  • The traps of carnivorous plants function a little like the stomachs and small intestines of animals. 食肉植物的捕蝇器起着动物的胃和小肠的作用。 来自辞典例句
10 pneumonia
n.肺炎
  • Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
  • Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。
学英语单词
Adelphan-Esidrex
ahaptoglobinemia
Alfarelos
alice walkers
antiferromagnetically-coupled media
Ban Klang Dong
black-greiest
blue beeches
cellular-phone
colour inheritance
commuter train
composite shipbuilder
coral reefs
costocoracoid
curvilinear style
cyanalcohol
Daarlerveen
disposingly
Disse's spaces
drainage-tube
ectotrophic symbiosis
el carmen (carmen)
erasble optical disk
excitoreflex
fairgoers
familial histiocytic reticulosis
farrowing fever
follow my nose
for certainty
Full Packaged Product
gelicolous
graphic voltmeter
health insurance unit
high-viscosity pump
hitting people
huelga
importance(of a flare)
indexed sequential data set
indisciplined
inella verrucosa
keeper current
Kjeldahl analysis
klopemania
leprose
lobuli corticales (renis)
Millridge
Moroline
moulting liquid
mountainview
multiengined airplane
multiple-tariff meter
Mycobacterium friedmannii
myeloarchitectural
myiasis muscosa
mylar film
Neanderthaloid
obstructive glaucoma
odium
over-pot
pannor
pappuses
paraproteinaemia
pasan
pauselessly
phyllostomids
piesmatids
pocket accumulator
pressure distillation
price convention
programming theory
Raja batis
rubber bowl
Salching
sallusts
Sandy Plains
sessilinasis
ship shock
Snihurivka
soum
spiric
split-second collet tube
Staurograptus
string parsing
swap, pin
synonym ring
tape preamplifier
tetrasymmetric face
the lie of the land
Truro
two-sheave block
Ulmipollenites
ultralite
underdry
Urausu
vasopressinergic
vegetable drug
verification of forecast
Vincent's infection of tonsil
von Gierke
walk point
wave traps
Yongpyong-dong