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
a show of hands
Aconitum pomeense
aerial screw
Aholibamah
algorithmic translation
almonry school
amre
Andramasina
anisocercal
antennular plate
aplune
appropinque
basin -and -range
brake friction area
brass founder
butterballs
ceramic carrier
clearing account
close routine
coq au vin
D. R. S.
daintiful
diversity antenna
dummy out
establish in
exogenous cycle
first bath
foreign exchange purchase
form watch
gaggery
gebli
ground-water lowering
harmonic balance method
horizontal marketing
Horrebow level
host access method
hu yueh
Ignacio Zaragoza
indicated content
Itāwa
joseph m. jacquards
krahnke
leasing authority
lipophile liquid
long term allowable stress
loop-line
lumber tropical freshwater loadline
lymphopathia venereum
made of money
Malgache
mapping rule
Markitta
mesodonty
money-man
Moorsom tonnage
oceanic layer
out-works
oxo-bridging
oxysulfate of zinc cement
para-phrase
pemosors
pemphigus arthriticus
pentaiodoethane
phosphoric acid ester
pimpernel
Qianding
quaternary ionisation
radiophotoluminescence
Rechtenfleth
repellently
resettable clock module
rope sb. in
ropewalk
rotproofing
rotundal
sales staffs
section of an arrester
self-commutated convertor
sensitive items
service item
shanties
spectrofluorophosphorimeter
speed scout
starboard obstruction buoy
starobelsks
steady-state regulation
surface pan
tetralyl
the grape
thermo-mechanical analyzer
thumbring
tin(ii) bromide
tissue protein
togemans
Tokyo Rose
tranquilizing
trivoluminous
turbine augmented
wave-cut bench(platform)
wellclad
Wilson Res.
Yalifafu