Body clock scientists win Nobel Prize
導(dǎo)語(yǔ): 為什么人們?cè)诎滋旃ぷ?,進(jìn)行各種活動(dòng),而一到晚上,就困意連連,只想約周公?——讓諾獎(jiǎng)得主三人為你一一揭秘!
unravelled: If you unravel a mystery or if it unravels, it gradually becomes clearer and you can work out the answer to it. =decipher
文中同義替換:uncovered
e.g. Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
對(duì)健康有深遠(yuǎn)的含義:their findings had "vast implications for our health and wellbeing".
近義詞:profound implications
并列結(jié)構(gòu)使用as well as, 不用and
e.g. A clock ticks in nearly every cell of the human body, as well as in plants, animals and fungi.
e.g. Even our risk of a heart attack soars every morning as our body gets the engine running to start a new day.
sours 來(lái)代替rise, 用詞多樣性
in the short term, but in the long term...
對(duì)新陳代謝有重要影響:have a big impact on our metabolism.
輪班工作:rotational shift work
早起的鳥(niǎo)兒和夜貓子:morning larks and others are night owls.
有關(guān)生物學(xué)的詞匯:
Body clock, molecular clocks, molecular feedback loops
daily rhythm=daily basis
heart attack
breakthroughs
fruit flies: 果蠅
circadian timing:晝夜節(jié)律
genetic mechanism:基因機(jī)制
constant state of jet lag:類比
口語(yǔ)詞匯:screw up
連接詞:As a result
生詞
ghastly: adj, not adv, horrible, very unpleasant
sync with: 與...同步
e.g. The ghastly experience of jet lag is caused by the body being out of sync with the world around it.
on a par with: If you say that two people or things are on a par with each other, you mean that they are equally good or bad, or equally important. 與... 同等重要
e.g. body clocks were viewed as a black box on a par with astrology."
astrology: is the study of the movements of the planets, sun, moon, and stars in the belief that these movements can have an influence on people's lives. 占星術(shù)