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今天主題，非常適合在情人節來聽哦。
今日主題：Steamy Smooches Share Batches of Bacteria
深吻傳遞千萬細菌

托福聽力最好的課外教材：60-Second Science
康康精選托福會考的主題，堅持每天精聽一定會進步的哦!!

​​​​​​​ 建議方法：
1. 先聽兩三遍(不看文稿)
2. 再一句一句聽寫
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。

​​​​​​​ MP3音檔：喜歡的同學，幫忙推或按讚哦~~
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​​​​​​​ 只有音檔怎夠，聽不懂地方，不用怕，康康幫你準備好中英文稿了：

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 中英文稿：
A passionate kiss shares much more than intimacy. A single 10-second smooch can transfer tens of millions of bacteria from one partner to the other. That's the finding from a study in the journal Microbiome. [Remco Kort et al, Shaping the oral microbiota through intimate kissing]
一個激吻傳遞的可不僅是濃情蜜意。一個10秒長的吻會使情侶間傳遞數以千萬計細菌。該研究結果出自《微生物》雜誌的一項研究。【瑞姆科‧柯爾特等：通過親密接吻塑造口腔微生物區】

\More than 700 different bacteria are estimated to live in the human mouth. To find out how macking mixes microbes, Dutch scientists asked 21 couples to French kiss.
據估計人類口腔中生存著700多種不同的細菌。為查明激吻如何混合細菌，荷蘭科學家要求21對情侶進行法式接吻。

Intimate partners already have more of the same bacteria in their mouths than do unrelated individuals, because of the couple's shared habits and environment. But kissing really expedites the bacterial blending.
跟毫不相干的個體之間相比，親密情侶的口腔內本就擁有更多相同的細菌。原因可能是情侶間擁有共同的生活習慣及環境。但接吻確實會加速細菌混合。

As part of the study, one member of the couple consumed a probiotic yogurt drink loaded with certain bacteria. Saliva samples and tongue swabs revealed that after the couples puckered up, about 80 million bacteria from the drink moved mouth to mouth.
作為研究的一部分，情侶中一人要食用益生菌酸奶從而獲得特定的細菌。唾液樣本及舌頭化驗樣本顯示，情侶在接吻後該酸奶中的8千萬細菌通過嘴進行了「口口相傳」。

The salivary bug exchange was extensive but the work does not yet tell us why certain swapped bacteria either stuck around or were more transient. Answering that question could help with future medical interventions aimed at microbes.
唾液細菌傳播量非常大，但這項研究還不能表明為何某些交換來的細菌要麼滯留要麼更易消逝。解開了這個謎團，或許對未來我們研究針對微生物的醫療干預有所幫助。

What the research did show: although the bacteria in saliva were easily altered, bacteria living on tongues tended to stay put. Unlike certain frog-princes, those critters were less prone to change because of a mere kiss.
那麼此項研究表明了什麼：儘管唾液中的細菌很容易改變，但舌頭上的細菌卻很穩定。這些小生物可不像青蛙王子，不會輕易的僅僅因為一個吻就改變。