【英语时差8,16】蟑螂和垃圾食物

 Roaches And Junk Food Cockroaches¹ are famous–or maybe infamous–for being the ultimate survivors². They can live anywhere, eat anything. But just like people, roaches on a junk food diet don’t fare well. According to one study, even cockroaches get fat and unwell when their diet is out of whack³. Now, we’re not talking about junk food as in potato chips and French fries. Researchers at the University of Exeter, in England, fed one group of young roaches a well‑balanced diet of high‑protein fish food and oatmeal. A second group dined only on fish food–which in the roach world is the equivalent to a diet consisting mainly of burgers and fries. Overall, the roaches raised on a poorly balanced diet were fatter and took longer to mature than the insects that enjoyed a more healthful diet. Even when some junk food‑eating roaches were switched to the more healthful diet midway through the experiment, they still weren’t as healthy as roaches that ate healthful meals from the get-go. Similarly, another British study found that baby crows that scavenge junk food from city garbage cans are less healthy than crows in rural areas eating more natural, more healthful stuff. So why should we care about the diets of cockroaches and crows? We already know that too much junk food is bad for our health. But learning that it’s unhealthy even for animals supposedly able to thrive on just about anything–well, that drives the point home just a little bit more. If roaches and crows suffer from a poor diet, we’re all the more vulnerable.

1 cockroaches   

n.蟑螂( cockroach的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• At night, the cockroaches filled the house with their rustlings. 夜里，屋里尽是蟑螂窸窸瑟瑟的声音。 来自辞典例句
• It loves cockroaches, and can keep a house clear of these hated insects. 它们好食蟑螂，可以使住宅免除这些讨厌昆虫的骚扰。 来自百科语句

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 whack   

v.敲击，重打，瓜分；n.重击，重打，尝试，一份

参考例句：

• After years of dieting,Carol's metabolism was completely out of whack.经过数年的节食，卡罗尔的新陈代谢完全紊乱了。
• He gave me a whack on the back to wake me up.他为把我弄醒，在我背上猛拍一下。