戴耳机1h细菌增700倍！10个耳朵冷知识惊呆你

 　　Ears are the natural sound detector¹ of our body, they interpret the sound for our understanding.

　　耳朵是我们身体自然声音的侦查器，解析声音以便我们理解。

　　#1: Ears helps in Taste

　　#1: 耳朵有助味觉

　　We’re not saying that you can really taste food with your ears, but they do have a function in transmitting taste signals to your brain. There is a division of nerves called the chorda tympani that just happens to run throughout the middle ear as it connects the undergo buds on the face of the tongue to the brain.

　　不是说你靠耳朵品尝食物，但耳朵可以把味觉信号传到大脑。有种神经称为鼓索，恰巧贯穿中耳，连接大脑和舌头表面的味蕾。

　　#2: Ear Drum

　　#2: 耳鼓膜

　　Your ear drum is smaller than 0.7 inches in width it moves less than a billionth of an inch while hearing.

　　你的耳鼓膜宽度还不足0.7英寸，听的时候移动还不足十亿分之一英寸。

　　#3: Structure

　　#3: 结构

　　The complete area of the central ear is not large, the internal ear is of about the size of a pencil eraser, but it has more than 20,000 hairs.

　　中耳完整的面积并不大，内耳大约是卷笔刀大小，毛发却多达2万根。

　　#4: Keep Working

　　#4:一直工作

　　The ear continues to have the intellect of hearing sounds, but your brain just shuts them off. Possibly that’s why you at times all of sudden wake up when you listen something optimistic, but with no thought what it was.

　　耳朵持续不断听声音，而大脑却会屏蔽。也许就是为何你有时候听到什么好事突然醒过来，但不知道究竟是什么。

　　#5: Can Make Difference

　　#5:耳目一新

　　No one knows how the brain tells the distinction among high pitched and low pitched sounds or among noisy and supple² sounds. Your ear does extra than just let you perceive sound, it also gives you a sense of equilibrium³.

　　没人知道大脑如何分辨高音低音还有喧闹和轻柔之音。你的耳朵不仅仅能察觉声音，还让你保持平衡。

　　#6: Avoid Hairsprays

　　#6: 少喷发胶

　　If you frequently apply hairspray, it might cause several painful problems in your ears. It is because your ears are so near to your hair, while hairspray is applied⁴, more times it can acquire into the ear, causing earwax that would of course fall out to get jammed.

　　如果你频繁喷发胶，有可能会引起耳朵疼痛。因为耳朵离头发近，喷发胶的时容易进入耳朵，耳朵结块堵住耳道。

　　#7: Cleaner

　　#7:清道夫

　　Ears itself are self-cleaner. Pores in the ear canal fabricate cerumen, or ear wax, and minute hairs, called cilia, move forward the wax out of the ear.

　　每个耳朵都可以自洁。耳道孔里产生耳垢，而称之为纤毛的细小毛发把耳垢赶出去。

　　#8: Animals Have Remarkable⁵ Hearing Sense

　　#8:动物听觉卓越

　　When the Parrots hear the rival air craft upcoming they would inform everybody of the forthcoming hazard long prior to any human ear would hear it.

　　鹦鹉听到敌对飞行物飞来时，会提醒全体鹦鹉有危险，比人耳听到要早得多。

　　#9: New Ear Every Year

　　#9: 每年都新生

　　You get a novel ear canal each year. The ear canal skin is continually increasing external at rate of 1.3 inches each year.

　　每年你耳朵都重获新生。耳道肌肤表皮每年都增长1.3英寸。

　　#10: Say NO to Headphones

　　#10:拒绝耳机

　　Wearing headphones create a great habitation for bugs⁶, alike to a swamp. Immediately in an hour the figure of bacteria in your ear increases by 700 times and a general signal for ear infections is itching⁷ ears.

　　戴耳机给虫子创造沼泽般的栖息地。仅一个小时耳朵里的细菌就增长700倍，一般耳朵感染的标志就是耳朵痒。

1 detector   

n.发觉者，探测器

参考例句：

• The detector is housed in a streamlined cylindrical container.探测器安装在流线型圆柱形容器内。
• Please walk through the metal detector.请走过金属检测器。

2 supple   

adj.柔软的，易弯的，逢迎的，顺从的，灵活的；vt.使柔软，使柔顺，使顺从；vi.变柔软，变柔顺

参考例句：

• She gets along well with people because of her supple nature.她与大家相处很好，因为她的天性柔和。
• He admired the graceful and supple movements of the dancers.他赞扬了舞蹈演员优雅灵巧的舞姿。

3 equilibrium   

n.平衡，均衡，相称，均势，平静

参考例句：

• Change in the world around us disturbs our inner equilibrium.我们周围世界的变化扰乱了我们内心的平静。
• This is best expressed in the form of an equilibrium constant.这最好用平衡常数的形式来表示。

4 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

5 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

6 bugs   

adj.疯狂的，发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 )；病菌；虫子；[计算机]（制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的）错误

参考例句：

• All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞，都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 itching   

adj.贪得的，痒的，渴望的v.发痒( itch的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• 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》