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http://iservice.ltn.com.tw/Service/english/english.php?engno=888278&day=2015-06-11

Despite two million years of munching almost exclusively on bamboo, the giant panda’s gut has not adapted to eating the plant--putting the creatures in an "evolutionary dilemma", scientists said Tuesday.

儘管200萬年幾乎都只吃竹子，大貓熊的腸子並沒有改變成適合吃這種植物，讓這種生物處於「演化兩難」。

The surprising study, reported by online US journal mBio, examined 45 giant pandas over the course of a year and found that the animals appeared to have a digestive system "entirely differentiated from other herbivores".

這項讓人訝異的研究是由美國線上雜誌mBio報導，在1年內檢視45隻大型貓熊，發現這種動物似乎有個「完全有別於其他草食動物的」消化系統。

Instead, the pandas still retained the gut bacteria of the omnivorous bears they evolved from, the report’s summary said.

英倫翻譯圖文轉自：

http://iservice.ltn.com.tw/Service/english/english.php?engno=889661&day=2015-06-16

Measles can harm the immune system for up to three years, leaving survivors at a higher risk of catching other infectious and potentially deadly diseases, researchers said.

麻疹可能損害免疫系統長達3年之久，讓患者處於高風險，感染其他傳染的和可能致命的疾病，研究人員說。

It was previously known that measles could suppress the body’s natural defenses for months, but the findings in the journal Science show that the dangers of the vaccine-preventable disease last much longer, by wiping out essential memory cells that protect the body against infections like pneumonia, meningitis and parasitic diseases.

（研究者）先前就已知麻疹可壓制人類身體天生的防禦系統達數個月，但這項刊載於《科學》的研究指出，這個疫苗可預防的疾病，其威脅時間持續更久。麻疹病毒的危害是，藉由消滅免疫系統中的重要記憶細胞，這種細胞保護身體對抗感染疾病，像是肺炎、腦膜炎和寄生蟲引起的疾病。

"In other words, if you get measles, three years down the road, you could die from something that you would not die from had you not been infected with measles," said co-author C. Jessica Metcalf, assistant professor of Princeton University.

英倫翻譯圖文轉自：

http://www.dailyenglishquote.com/2013/04/ann-dunwoody/

“You could always be anything you wanted to be if you worked hard. And so I never felt constrained. I never felt that there were limitations on what I could do.”

– Ann Dunwoody, Four-Star General

「只要努力，你可以成為任何你想要成為的人，我從不覺得自己受限，我從不覺得我能做的事受到限制。」– 安‧鄧伍迪 (四星上將)

constrain (v.) 限制，束縛。例：Poor soil constrained the level of crop production. (貧脊的土壤限制農作物的產量。)

安‧鄧伍迪 (1953- ) 為美國已退休四星上將，她是第一位達到此位階的女性軍官，官至美國陸軍裝備司令部司令。