读者文摘:九个生活小妙招(2)

6 Sweeten Your Yogurt Without Sugar. Flavored yogurts often contain dozens of grams of sugar, but plain yogurt can be pretty blah.

不加糖就让你的酸奶变甜。调味酸奶通常含有几十克的糖，而普通酸奶则可能一点也不甜。

Add flavor without many calories with a few drops of vanilla¹, mint, or almond extract.

加入少许香草、薄荷或杏仁提取物，不增加很多热量，增加口味。

You can also microwave your favorite fruit into a compote and, once it’s cool, swirl² it into the yogurt.

你也可以用微波炉把你最喜欢的水果放进果盘里，等它凉了之后，把它搅进酸奶里。

7 Clean Your Charging Port. When you stuff your phone into your pocket or purse,

清洁你的充电端口。当你把手机塞进口袋或钱包的时候，

lint³ and dust can get caught in the charging port, causing problems with charging.

皮屑和灰尘可能会卡在充电口，造成充电问题。

(Similarly, dirt in the headphone jack⁴ can make it malfunction⁵.)

（同样，耳机插孔里的污垢也可能导致故障。)

If you are careful, you can clear any debris⁶ with a toothpick.

如果你小心点，你可以用牙签清理任何碎片。

To keep an opening clean, insert a dust plug (a package of them costs less than $10 on Amazon).

为了保持开口清洁，可以插入一个防尘塞(在亚马逊上，一包防尘塞的价格不到10美元)。

8 Protect Your Fingers When Hammering. Ouch! You just hammered your finger instead of the tiny nail you were trying to pound into that piece of wood.

锤击时要保护手指。哎哟！你刚刚敲了你的手指，而不是你试图敲进那块木头的小钉子。

To keep this from happening again, before you start hammering, stick the nail through a small piece of thin cardboard.

为了防止这种情况再次发生，在你开始锤击之前，把钉子穿过一小片薄纸板。

Position the nail and, holding the cardboard by the edges, hit it home.

把钉子放好，抓住纸板的边缘，把钉子打到头。

When you’re finished, use your bruise-free fingers to tear away the protective cardboard.

当你完成的时候，用你没有瘀伤的手指撕开保护纸板。

9 Clear Your Ears Before Flying. Thirty minutes before takeoff, take a decongestant.

在飞行之前清洁你的耳朵。在起飞之前三十分钟，服用减充血药。

Your sinus and ear membranes⁷ will shrink, leaving your nose and ears clear when you’re in the air.

这样，当你在空中时，你的鼻窦和耳膜会收缩，让你的鼻子和耳朵保持干净。

1 vanilla   

n.香子兰，香草

参考例句：

• He used to love milk flavoured with vanilla.他过去常爱喝带香草味的牛奶。
• I added a dollop of vanilla ice-cream to the pie.我在馅饼里加了一块香草冰激凌。

2 swirl   

v.(使)打漩，(使)涡卷；n.漩涡，螺旋形

参考例句：

• The car raced roughly along in a swirl of pink dust.汽车在一股粉红色尘土的漩涡中颠簸着快速前进。
• You could lie up there,watching the flakes swirl past.你可以躺在那儿，看着雪花飘飘。

3 lint   

n.线头；绷带用麻布，皮棉

参考例句：

• Flicked the lint off the coat.把大衣上的棉绒弹掉。
• There are a few problems of air pollution by chemicals,lint,etc.,but these are minor.化学品、棉花等也造成一些空气污染问题，但这是次要的。

4 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

5 malfunction   

vi.发生功能故障，发生故障，显示机能失常

参考例句：

• There must have been a computer malfunction.一定是出了电脑故障。
• Results have been delayed owing to a malfunction in the computer.由于电脑发生故障，计算结果推迟了。

6 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

7 membranes   

n.（动物或植物体内的）薄膜( membrane的名词复数 )；隔膜；（可起防水、防风等作用的）膜状物

参考例句：

• The waste material is placed in cells with permeable membranes. 废液置于有渗透膜的槽中。 来自辞典例句
• The sarcoplasmic reticulum is a system of intracellular membranes. 肌浆网属于细胞内膜系统。 来自辞典例句