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听力文本
Scientists have discovered that stress is one factor in turning our hair grey, white or silver - at least, in mice. Stem cell biologists from Harvard University in the USA conducted a series of tests on mice to ascertain the effects of stress on the rodents. The scientists injected the mice with an ingredient found in chili peppers that gives them their heat. The compound made the mice stressed. This caused a hair-colouring pigment in the mice to go into overdrive as a reaction to the stress and deplete colour-regenerating stem cells. This caused the mice's hair to rapidly turn white. Lead researcher, Professor Ya-Chieh Hsu, said: "The detrimental impact of stress that we discovered was beyond what I imagined."
People have wondered for centuries about the link between stress and greying hair. It is believed that France's Queen Marie Antoinette's hair turned white the night before she was beheaded during the French Revolution in the late-eighteenth century. More recently, we have witnessed the locks of presidents and other world leaders quickly lose colour. The strains of leadership seem to go to the roots of things, especially hair follicles. Professor Hsu said the loss of the pigment-regenerating stem cells cannot be reversed. She said: "Once they're gone, you can't regenerate pigment any more. The damage is permanent." Worryingly, she hypothesised that stress could be responsible for accelerating the aging process.
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重点解析
1....conducted a series of tests on mice to ascertain the effects of stress on the rodents.
ascertain确定
Through doing this, the teacher will be able to ascertain the extent to which the child understands what he is reading
这样一来,老师就能确定孩子们对他所读的内容理解多少了 。
2.This caused a hair-colouring pigment in the mice to go into overdrive as a reaction to the stress and deplete colour-regenerating stem cells.
deplete耗尽
They fired in long bursts, which depleted their ammunition
他们长时间开火,耗尽了弹药 。
参考翻译
科学家发现压力是导致头发变灰、变白或变银的一个因素——至少在老鼠身上是这样
几世纪以来,人们一直到想知道压力和灰发之间的联系