2015考研英语阅读重拾苗条_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读重拾苗条

　　格拉克曼和福伦斯特从研究儿童营养不良的幸存者开始。

　　Symptoms normally manifest themselves in one of two ways, known as marasmus andkwashiorkor.

　　常常表现为一种或两种症状，身体衰弱症和夸希奥科病。

　　Children with marasmus are simply emaciated.

　　衰弱症的孩子只是瘦而已。

　　One significant difference between the two syndromes is that children with marasmus aretwice as likely to survive malnutrition as those with kwashiorkor.

　　夸希奥科病的孩子下腹则膨胀得像电视上那些饥荒浮肿的人。

　　Dr Gluckman and Dr Forrester looked at 240 people aged between 25 and 40 who hadsurvived one syndrome or the other as children, and found a systematic differencebetween them.

　　格拉克曼和福伦斯特博士观察了240个患有综合症的25到40岁之间成人和儿童，发现了二者有规律性的差别。

　　The marasmus survivors tended to have had low birthweights.

　　身体衰弱症的患者出生体重偏轻，

　　The kwashiorkor group had normal birthweights. Low birthweight is an indication of amalnourished mother.

　　夸希奥科病的人群出生体重正常。出生体重轻就表示母亲营养不良。

　　Dr Gluckman and Dr Forrester thus hypothesise that the capacity for a marasmus-styleresponse to malnutrition, with its higher survival rate, is programmed into fetuses bymaternal malnourishment.