(電腦出現comsurrogate已停止工作)1Gates lauds waterless toilets蓋茨在京推介'無水廁所'US billionaire philanthropistBill Gates unveiled afuturistictoilet that doesn't need water orsewersand uses chemicals to turn human waste intofertilizer. \"The current toilet simply sends the waste away in the water, whereas these toilets don't have the sewer.微軟公司聯合創始人、美國億萬富翁兼慈善家比爾?蓋茨近日在北京展示了一款未來派廁所，無需使用水，也不用連接下電腦水道，僅使用化學物質就能將人類糞便轉化為肥料。蓋茨說：\"目前的廁所只是用水把排泄物沖走。而這種新廁所并不連接下水道。They take both the liquids and solids and do chemical work on it, including burning it in most cases,\" the Microsoft Corp co-founder said in Beijing. He compared the change from traditional toilets to waterless models as a similar development to what happened in computing around the time he founded Microsoft in the mid-1970s. \"In the way a personal computer is sort of self-contained, we can do this chemical processing at the household level,\" he said.它們能對尿液和糞便進行化學處理，多數情況是燒掉它們。\"他將傳統廁所轉變為無水廁所的過程，與他在上世紀70年代中期創立微軟時計算機領域的發展相提并論。\"就像個人電腦在某種程度上可以獨立運轉一樣，我們現在也可以在家庭層面化學處理糞便。\"重點詞匯1、philanthropist英 /f?'l?nθr?p?st/ 電腦 美 /f?'l?nθr?p?st/n. 慈善家，博愛主義者；樂善好施的人2、futuristic英 /fju?t??'r?st?k/ 美 /,fjut??'r?st?k/ adj. 未來派的；未來主義的3、sewer英 /'su??; 'sju??/ 美 /'su?/ n. 下水道；陰溝；裁縫師vt. 為…鋪設污水管道；用下水道排除…的污水vi. 清洗污水管4、fertilizer英 /'f??t?la?z?/ 美 /'f?t?la?z?/ n. [肥料] 肥料；受精媒介物；促進發展者5、self-contained英 /'selfk?n'te?nd/ 美 /'s?lfk?n'tend/ adj. 獨立的；設備齊全的；沉默寡言的2'Human Uber' invented宅人福音'人肉優步'問世A new \"human Uber\" could let you pay someone to live your life for you. Japanese researcher Jun Rekimoto has developed a special screen that can be strapped to a person's face and allow them to live on your behalf. The technology is aimed at allowing someone – a \"surrogate\" – to live your life for you, wearing your clothes and 電腦 behaving on your instruction.一種新型\"人肉優步\"讓你可以付錢找人替你生活。近日，日本研究人員暦本純一研發出一款可以綁定在人臉上的特殊屏幕，戴上屏幕的人可以代替你去生活。該技術的目標是讓某人，即替身穿上你的衣服、依照你的指示行事從而替你生活。You, on the other hand, would be able to loungeat home, watching events through your laptop and using its camera to communicate with people your surrogate meets. Though the mask has been described as \"human Uber\", it's actually far more involved than that. \"A surrogate usermimicsa remote user by following theremoteuser's directions,\" a page describing the tool, known as ChameleonMask, reads.另一方面，你則可以懶洋洋地窩在家中，通過筆記本電腦來觀看事態發展，通過攝像頭和你的替身遇到的人進行交流。盡管這款面具被比作\"人肉優步\"，但實際上并不是戴上面具就完事了。頁面上是這樣描述這款名為\"變色龍面具\"的工具的：\"替身用戶遵照遠程用戶的指示模而仿之。\"重點詞匯1、surrogate英 /'s?r?g?t/ 美 /?s?r?g?t; ?s?r??get; (for v.,) ?s?r??get/ n. 代理；代用品；遺囑檢驗法官vt. 代理；指定某人為自己的代理人adj. 代理的；替代的2、lounge英 /la?n(d)?/ 美 /la?nd?/ n. 休息室；閑逛；躺椅；（英）酒吧間vi. 閑逛；懶洋洋地躺臥；閑混vt. 虛度光陰3、mimic英 /'m?m?k/ 美 /'m?m?k/ vt. 模仿，摹擬n. 效顰者，模仿者；仿制品；小丑adj. 模仿的，模擬的；假裝的4、remote英 /r?'m??t/ 美 /r?'mot/ adj. 遙遠的；偏僻的；疏遠的n. 遠程3Noises increase heart risks噪音或增心血管病風險A preliminarystudy showedexposure to environmental noises might increase the risk of heart attacks andstrokes. Noises can fuel the activity of a brain region involved in stress response and in turn promote blood vesselinflammation, according to the study to be presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions.一項初步研究顯示，接觸環境噪音可能增加心臟病和中風的風險。這項將在美國心臟病協會科學會議上發布的研究稱，噪音能加劇參與應激反應的腦區的活動，從而增加血管炎癥反應。The findings revealed that people with the highest levels of chronicnoise exposure had an increased risk of suffering cardiovascular events, like heart attacks and strokes. Researchers analyzed the links between noise exposure and major cardiovascular events among 499 healthy people with average age of 56. .研究結果顯示，最能長期接觸噪音的人群，發生心臟病、中風等心血管事件的風險會增加。研究人員以499名健康狀況良好、平均年齡56歲的人為研究對象，分析接觸噪音與主要心血管事件之間的關聯。Of the 499 participants, 40 experienced a cardiovascularevent over a 5-year period. People with the highest levels of noise exposure had higher levels of activity in the amygdala (杏仁核), an area of the brain involved in stress regulation and emotional responses, and more inflammation in theirarteries.5年間，這499人中有40人發生心血管事件。根據研究，接觸噪音最多的人，杏仁核(參與壓力調控和情緒反應的腦區)活動水平更高，動脈炎癥反應更多。These people also had a greater than three-fold risk of suffering a heart attack or a stroke and other major cardiovascular events, compared with people who had lower levels of noise exposure, according to the study. That risk remained elevated even after the researchers accounted for other cardiovascular and environmental risk factors, including air pollution, high cholesterol, smoking and diabetes.這些人發生心臟病或中風等主要心血管事件的風險也是接觸噪音較少的人的三倍多。即使研究人員排除空氣污染、高膽固醇、吸煙和糖尿病等其他心血管和環境風險因素后，這些人發生心血管事件的風險依然更高。重點詞匯1、preliminary英 /pr?'l?m?n(?)r?/ 美 /pr?'l?m?n?ri/n. 準備；預賽；初步措施adj. 初步的；開始的；預備的2、exposure to曝光；受到；顯露3、strokes美 /strok/n. 中風4、fuel英 /fj??l/ 美 /'fju?l/ vi. 得到燃料vt. 供以燃料，加燃料n. 燃料；刺激因素5、in turn反過來；轉而；輪流，依次6、inflammation英 /?nfl?'me??(?)n/ 美 /'?nfl?'me??n/n. [病理] 炎癥；[醫] 發炎；燃燒；發火7、chronic英 /'kr?n?k/ 美 /'krɑn?k/ adj. 慢性的；長期的；習慣性的8、cardiovascular英 /,kɑ?d???'v?skj?l?/ 美 /,kɑrd?o'v?skj?l?/ adj. [解剖] 心血管的9、artery英 /'ɑ?t?r?/ 美 /'ɑrt?ri/ n. 動脈；干道；主流復數 arteries4Contact lens as bandage科學家發明'眼球創可貼'Treating wounds on a part of the body as delicateas the eyeball isn't easy, but scientists have developed an innovative new approach: atherapeuticcontact lens that can act as a bandage for damaged eyes.要處理人體中像眼球這樣脆弱部位上的傷口絕非易事，不過科學家已研發出一種創新療法：治療用隱形眼鏡，對受傷的眼睛來說這種隱形眼鏡相當于創可貼。This is no ordinary contact lens, because it's made up of donorcells left over from regularcornealtransplants. These speciallimbalmesenchymalstromalcells (角膜緣間充質間質細胞) help to encourage the injured eye to repair its wounds itself. According to the researchers, a contact lens bandage could be in place within hours of a patient arriving at hospital with eye damage.這不是普通的隱形眼鏡，因為它由常規角膜移植遺留下來的供體細胞組成。這些特殊的角膜緣間充質間質細胞有助于刺激受創眼部進行自我修復。研究人員稱，眼部受傷的患者到醫院數小時內，就能用上隱形眼鏡創可貼。It's also likely to be cheaper and easier to apply than current treatments. These lenses only to go through an extensive set of clinical trials before they get approved, and the researchers say it could take several years for them to become available to general public.這種方法可能比現有療法更便宜、更易應用。這些創可貼隱形眼鏡在獲得批準前還需進行大量臨床試驗，研究人員表示，可能還需要好幾年的時間公眾才能用上這種\"眼球創可貼\"。重點詞匯1、delicate英 /'del?k?t/ 美 /?d?l?k?t/adj. 微妙的；精美的，雅致的；柔和的；易碎的；纖弱的；清淡可口的2、therapeutic英 /,θer?'pju?t?k/ 美 /,θ?r?'pjut?k/ adj. 治療的；治療學的；有益于健康的n. 治療劑；治療學家3、donor英 /'d??n?; -n??/ 美 /'don?/ n. 捐贈者；供者；贈送人adj. 捐獻的；經人工授精出生的4、corneal/'k?:ni?l/adj. [解剖] 角膜的5、limbal/'limb?l/ 緣的；角膜緣干細胞6、mesenchymal 英 /mes'e?k?m?l/ 美 /m?s'??k?m?l/ adj. 間葉細胞的；由間葉細胞組成的；間葉細胞樣的7、stromal/'stroml/ adj. 基質的（名詞stroma，名詞復數stromata）電腦