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
aberration of lens system
adverbializing
Allitride
analysis room
anoestrus
antiantitoxin
arnold-chiari(syndrome)
arousal pattern
autocracies
binder twine
BOCI Capital Limited
car-camping
carriage house
cervanotum
chaoborid
clearance road
cloudspotters
comparison shopping
computer program
Coragyps atratus
Cratoxylum
credit items
daily paper
deindexes
electric control system
electronic digital readout micrometer
extended system contents directory
extrinsic analysis
flame descaling
flash-pot
footstalk
fraud detection
genus roystoneas
global logical data
gypsum board, gypsum wallboard
haptenizes
have a part in
interexchange
Kaltenengers
karl wilhelm siemenss
La Huaca
laminated ceramics
landbanking
limacidaes
London standard silver
Macroscely
Mandelstam plane
mathematics departments
multi-collinearity
muslined
night-thoughts
non-drug
nuclear explosive device
oral implantologist
Paleocene Series
Partex penetrant process
picloram,4-amino-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid
pinch-plane
pineries
pixelled
plane curve
potassium manganic sulfate
prickish
pseudosphaeriaceous centrum
public history
put an end to
QNO
re-emburse
red buckeyes
refollowed
relaxing period
reln
retrogradation
scan display system
schregle
sclero-irirtis
selection policy
series-opposition bridge
shuafat
smooth torque
sooo
spiral dance
statistical image processing technique
strawberry-rhubarb
strength beam
stuffed egg
stunde
surface drainage
sweep velocity
system of titles and ranks
transport service access point
twomile
ultra-short-range radar
unconditional bid
unsightliness
uranium conversion plant
vapor line
vibrographing
vyssare
water carrying capacity
wing-tip missile
wunsome