时间:2019-02-23 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

Hey Don, do you like asparagus? Yep, I love it Yael, can't get enough. But don't you notice there's a certain problem after you've eaten it? Problem? Yeah, everybody knows that eating asparagus can cause a rather unpleasant smell in your urine. I didn't know that. Oh, that's right. Not everybody is an excretor of the odoriferous compound. And not everybody can perceive the odor, either. Both those traits are genetic 1. But what causes it? well, that's a good question. No one’s really sure. We do know that the pungent 2 chemical is some kind of sulfur 3 based compound. But scientists have been trying to find the exact identity of it since the 1890s.More recently, researchers found out that the smell is actually caused by a malodorous cocktail 4 of six sulfur containing compounds.



adj.遗传的,遗传学的
  • It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
  • Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
adj.(气味、味道)刺激性的,辛辣的;尖锐的
  • The article is written in a pungent style.文章写得泼辣。
  • Its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts.它的刺激性气味会令恐怖分子窒息,迫使他们从藏身地点逃脱出来。
n.硫,硫磺(=sulphur)
  • Sulfur emissions from steel mills become acid rain.炼钢厂排放出的硫形成了酸雨。
  • Burning may produce sulfur oxides.燃烧可能会产生硫氧化物。
n.鸡尾酒;餐前开胃小吃;混合物
  • We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
  • At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上,人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。
学英语单词
AAS (automatic addressing system)
accession of property
air entrainer
air-sick
Aksent'yevskaya
alpine zone
ambitransitivity
anemoclast
angle harps
aprioristic
Art improves nature.
Auchenorrhyncha
auxiliary person
bcus
beat to the punch
Binazine
blepharychalasis
building search path
charfs
choke valve bracket
chrysobothris shiwakii
closing to meeting maneuver
cobaltous
coeliacs
coking characteristic
cran
cuiss
cuspid teeth
definition of aggression
diazol Bordeaux
double range echo
driver's test
dual-sided disk drive
Ferusal
forespurrers
Forestdale
fragmentariness
fuel feedback
Gauss-Newton-Raphson (GNR) method
geomorphometric
Glyphenarsine
goldleaf
grown for its fiber and seedoil
handshake control
hoking
hungry as a as a wolf
Hydrosaluret
inductosyn droop meter
Jacob's ladder
law of excluded middle
lengthened.
leptasteroside
liodessus megacephalus
macro exercise program
macroskeleton structure
marley floor
mass rest,
material management
MBCM
me.and
membrana obturans stapedis
microwave lens
munida tiresias
nano-joule
Neosporidia
not a sou
Opilia amentacea
Page Park
pay claim
planar computer
pleurorhizal
principal profile
pulls strings
pyloric region
quarrel with ... bread and butter
quasi-empiricism in mathematics
quill driver
remachine
Rojas
self-similar elliptical crack
shoot one's way
silk-thread
spherical velocity
spouts
statistical analyzer
structure assignment
sutho
tertiary colours
thiosulphate
throw oneself at sb
Tobin L.
torpedo punt
Twixes
two-stage gasifier
Ubagan
uniteness
unthatches
updraft carburetor
usonite (uzonite)
vertebrated catheter
vesico-epigastric artery
water-cooled head plate