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今日主題：Cave Dwellers Battled Bed Bug Bites, Too / 古人也挨臭蟲叮

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建議方法：
1. 先聽兩三遍 (不看文稿)
2. 再一句一句聽寫 (每句都要聽寫數遍，直到寫出85%以上的字)
3. 最後check文稿，看哪聽不出來，單字沒背過，還是發音不熟。
4. 堅持天天聽，就能每天進步哦。

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康康幫你準備好中英文稿了：

中英文稿：
Picture a prehistoric human encampment, in a cave. What do you see? Maybe some animal hides, bones from last night's dinner, a small fire? But what you might not picture are the other cave dwellers. Like bats. And the bugs that suck their blood.
想像洞穴裡石器時代人類的野營地，你會看到什麼呢？可能有昨天晚餐剩下的動物的毛皮、骨頭，還有一小堆的篝火?但是，你可能不會想到另外一種洞穴中的“居民”。例如蝙蝠。還有吸食蝙蝠血的蟲子。

"The bed bugs we all know and love from hotel rooms and apartments and all that, were originally bat parasites." Martin Adams is an archaeoentomologist with Paleo Insect Research, a private business in Portland, Oregon.
我們知道喜歡酒店客房和公寓的臭蟲，最初是來自蝙蝠體內的寄生蟲。馬丁•亞當斯是一位史前昆蟲學家。他來自Paleo Insect Research，這是俄勒岡州，波特蘭市的一家私營研究機構。

Adams and his colleague Dennis Jenkins analyzed the remains of bed bug cousins, recovered from one of those prehistoric camps, the Paisley Caves in eastern Oregon. And they pinned the insects to three different species within the Cimex genus--the same genus as bed bugs.
亞當斯和同事鄧尼斯•詹金斯分析了臭蟲表兄弟的殘骸，這些殘骸在在俄勒岡州的東部佩斯利洞穴的一個史前的營地中發現的。他們將這些昆蟲歸屬於臭蟲屬中三個不同的物種——但同屬臭蟲屬。

These bugs are bat parasites--not the species that commonly bite humans. But they ranged from 5100 to 11,000 years old. Making them the oldest example of bloodsucking bed bug relatives co-habitating with humans. The study is in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
這些蟲子是蝙蝠的寄生蟲——但是它們一般不會叮咬人類。它們存在的時間從5100年到11,000年不等。這使得它們成為與人類共同生活的時間最長的吸血臭蟲的親屬。這項研究發表在《醫學昆蟲學雜誌》上。

As to whether the cave dwelling humans were as paranoid as modern humans about infestation: "The humans living in Paisley Caves probably knew there were bats in the caves, I sincerely doubt they knew there were bat bugs infesting the bats."
但是，洞穴人對於疾病是否和現代人一樣偏執，“生活在佩斯利洞穴的人類可能知道洞穴裡存在蝙蝠，但是，我真心懷疑他們是否知道侵襲蝙蝠的臭蟲（蝠蝽）的存在。”

But make no mistake. Bat bugs will still suck human blood if need be. Which may in fact be the origin of the modern hotel pests. So don't let the bed bugs bite. Or the bat bugs, either
但是毫無疑問。如果需要，這種蟲子還會吸食人血。這實際上可能就是現代酒店害蟲的起源。所以，防止臭蟲叮咬。還有也得防蝠蝽。