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2015年新版职称英语教材新增文章系列之综合类 补全短文 第十二篇Men Smell of Cheese and Women of Onions 男人闻出奶酪味，女人嗅出洋葱味 　　Little girls may be made of sugar and all things nice, but their armpits smell of onions. ____1____ That’s the conclusion of research in Switzerland that involved taking armpit sweat samples from 24 men and 25 women after he had spent time in a sauna or ridden an exercise bike for 15 minute.小女孩闻起来可能有糖、香料和所有好东西的味道，但是她们的腋下却闻起来像洋葱味。男人的腋下虽然没有鼻涕虫或者蜗牛的味道，但是却有一股奶酪的气味。这是一项来自瑞士的研究结论，研究中的24位男士和25位女士在一段时间的桑拿浴或者15分钟的骑车锻炼后，腋下的气味被收集作为样本。 　　____2____ “Men smell of cheese, and women of grapefruit or onion,” says Christian Starkenmann of Firmenich, a company in Geneva that researches flavours and perfumes for food and cosmetics companies.Firmenich公司的Christian Starkenmann说道。Firmenich是一家位于日内瓦，为食物和化妆品研究香味和香水的公司。 　　The team found that the womens armpit sweat constrained relatively high levels of an odourless sulphur-containning compound – 5 milligrams per milliliter of sweat versus 0.5 milligrams in men. When the researchers mixed this compound in the lab with bacteria commonly found in the armpit, the bugs turned it into a thiol- a previously discovered odour from armpits that is akin to onion.研究团队发现女人腋下的气味中含有高浓度无味的含硫合成物—每毫升的气味中有5毫克，而男人的腋下的气味中只有0.5毫克。当研究者在实验室中把这种合成物与在腋下普遍存在的细菌混合在一起时，小虫子立刻变成硫醇—之前在腋下发现的一种类似洋葱味道的气味。 　　“The more sulphur precursor we added, the more intense was the malodour,” says Starkenmann, whose team’s results appear in Chemical Senses. ____3____The men, meanwhile, had relatively high levels of an odourless fatty acid which turned into a cheesy odour when exposed to the same types of bacteria. The balance of oniony to cheesy precursors in women’s sweat made it smell worse than men’s as rated by independent smell assessors.?我们加入越多的硫前体，恶臭味就越浓烈”， Starkenmann说道。他的团队的研究成果出现在了Chemical Senses中，细菌酶把另一种无味的前体转化为恶臭味。 　　____4____ “We could make inhibitors that neutralise the precursors, or block the bacterial enzymes that do the conversion,” says Starkenmann. Starkenmann说道。 　　Some researche