时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文小故事


英语课

Smaller than your fist, your muscular heart just goes on and on. It will beat more than 60 times a minute for 70 years or more. That’s something that most of us take for granted. But it’s an amazing fact.


Sixty times a minute for 60 minutes is 3,600 times. What physical thing can most of us do 3,600 times in one hour? Blink? Maybe. Tap our fingers on the desk? Nope. Jump up and down? Certainly not! But our heart keeps beating, hour after hour. Every day, it pumps almost 2,000 gallons of blood through our blood vessels 1. It takes you about five years to drink 2,000 gallons of water.


And, unlike your knees or your back, your heart does all this work without ever complaining! You never know that it’s even there. Your heart is such a reliable “silent partner” that people forget to care for it. For many, the first indication that their heart isn’t functioning properly is a fatal heart attack! Over 650,000 Americans die annually 2 of some kind of heart disease. Cancer kills 560,000, stroke kills 143,000, and accidents kill 118,000 Americans annually.


Like accidental deaths, many heart disease-related deaths can be avoided if people simply follow the advice of the experts. Unfortunately, most people seem to listen to a little voice in their head that says, “It won’t happen to me.” So these people keep on smoking and drinking. They continue to eat too much meat. And their only “exercise” is getting off the sofa to get something out of the refrigerator.


 



1 vessels
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人
  • The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 annually
adv.一年一次,每年
  • Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
  • They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
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'Slight
a. carotis communis
A/C (absolute ceiling)
acrosclerotic
American Bureau of Standard
androstenediones
angular ball bearing
annulated shaft
auricoma
axle hung motor
bad earth
baies
cancelability
church-member
continuous periodogram
crank locking frame
Dalvik
declare general average
discommonize
discontinuous offence
doorgames
dummy bus bar
etiemble
fish bait
floating balancing ship lift
fluoropyrimidines
gear shift rail
get the right end of the stick
Gibbs and Helmholtz function
hemartine extract
high level graphical programming language
Hydropteridales
Hédhinsfjördhur
indefinite operator
index linking
insured indemnity
Ipomoea cairica
jacking cycle
jaspachate
kaniggit
ketohexonate
kinds of gas
klopemania
laporte rule
lead niobiumzine zirconate titanate ceramics
leniter
loveabler
makovicka
measurement and weight list
Meta-bassetite
mortised joint
moss piglet
mother liquor, mother liquid
Mtoko
natural power
nematogranoblastic
nitze
nonlinear least squares
object-relational database
ornithogeographical
personal orientation inventory (poi)
phrenziedly
plate wheat
platinum resistance sensor
pontin
postevacuation
presultory
primary peridium
pulmonary vesicle
reciprocal of ohm
redissolution
relative coordinate system
rerecordable
resonance phenomenon
Roia, Fiume(Roya)
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Sandersleben
scanning arm
sciabarra
set-frame
Sierra Leone monetary unit
SMDCG
smolderings
solventless epoxy resin coating
stem the current
stunt-box
supra-angulare
tandem wing aircraft
technical pure
temper aging
time condensation method
tithing-penny
Toxorhynchites
tridecenoic asid
true slip
tup ram
turbo-charging auxiliary blower
ventral groove
water taxis
wire line work
wood-base fibre and particle panel material
work one's will upon sb