时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(八)月


英语课

A big clue about what’s behind the disappearing honeybees, also known as colony collapse 1 disorder 2, or CCD: May Berenbaum’s team at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign found that bees’ ribosomes were torn up.


“The ribosomes make the proteins that allow bees to respond to pesticides 3, to respond to diseases, to respond to poor nutrition. So the ribosomal fragments that we were finding explain a lot of things, explains among other things the observation that CCD seems to be caused by everything. And in fact it very well might be that once the ribosomes cease functioning properly, then anything can cause bees to go under.”


A possible cause is multiple viral infections. “So the bee apparently 4 has the capacity to deal with one or two of these, but multiple viral infections, basically the whole system breaks down.” The finding, in the Proceedings 5 of the National Academy of Sciences, doesn’t pinpoint 6 a cause or cure for CCD. But “we now have an explanation for what went wrong.”


—Steve Mirsky

 



1 collapse
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
2 disorder
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
3 pesticides
n.杀虫剂( pesticide的名词复数 );除害药物
  • vegetables grown without the use of pesticides 未用杀虫剂种植的蔬菜
  • There is a lot of concern over the amount of herbicides and pesticides used in farming. 人们对农业上灭草剂和杀虫剂的用量非常担忧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
5 proceedings
n.进程,过程,议程;诉讼(程序);公报
  • He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
  • to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼
6 pinpoint
vt.准确地确定;用针标出…的精确位置
  • It is difficult to pinpoint when water problems of the modern age began.很难准确地指出,现代用水的问题是什么时候出现的。
  • I could pinpoint his precise location on a map.我能在地图上指明他的准确位置。
标签: SSS fragment
学英语单词
abandonment charge
aboyeurs
ale-knight
allocated configuration index
Ban Bang Wo
banian hospital, banyan hospital
beam light
beenhakker
bergkamp
booknotes
bump
car engine hood dented
chin t'ung tai
comparison tubes
compressor washing
cyclopenteno-benzanthracene
drawing change
dual resonance model
dummy cylinder
dynamic accent
econometric program system (EPS)
Entrèves
equatorial scleral staphyloma
Ettrick Water
euonymus hamiltonianus wall.
eurytopobionts
evramicina
express telephone
extr(e)-
fatty acid soap heat stabilizer
fire wire
fouty
friction toy car
function constraint
gaelen
gamma constituent in brass
glassery
gripen
heading marker contacts
hexene-ol
intrapreneuring
Ketocamphane
kottu
kurten
language graph
loss due to bending of concrete member
Lower's tubercles
Lungler
major earthquake
make a payment
matched power gain
microwave plasma accelerator
Middle Latin
Muarasoma
muonium chemistry
neo-stalinist
nomen rectum
obatala
Ontinena
ordinary-looking
over-shorten
panel of experts
pastrymaking
penciclovir
perishable supplies
pernambuco
plastic surgeons
priest-penitent privilege
Primula mallophylla
pseudonamespaces
put someone's finger on the pulse
putrefaction bacteria
quality car
safrols
saltimbanques
Santa Marta, Pta.
seamless steel pipe for boiler
Sherpur
siento
signal paint
silicon mosaic
sociology of communication
soluble bitumen
spamvertised
sunday-school truth
sunken-eyed
suors
systemizations
Tanāqīb, Ra's
technisms
televue
the holy family
to put on the map
Tolkienian
travel-dependent control
Trichonodella
Tryplasmatidae
wave type sprinkler
wedged joint
widebody
with one's heart in the right place