外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:I had spent the days before my hike wandering in the city of Qingdao, which is so close to Laoshan that on a clear morning, Laoshan’s peaks appear like a golden mirage, wavering in the distance. To most in the city, Laoshan is no longer a physica
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:The mountain regularly appeared as a backdrop in stories and songs about unexplained happenings. In the 17th century, the author known in writing circles as the Last of the Immortals, Pu Songling, lived on the Taiqing Palace’s grounds and wrote t
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:By the Qin dynasty and for centuries after that, emperors made pilgrimages here, hoping to meet the beings who controlled the wind and the rain and bore such gifts.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:By the Qin dynasty and for centuries after that, emperors made pilgrimages here, hoping to meet the beings who controlled the wind and the rain and bore such gifts.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:There is a story here of a time when the mountain had no water, and the villagers were starving. A kind spirit gave a peasant a magical vessel that multiplied whatever was put into it, and the villagers were saved. When greedy officials came to s
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:This otherworldly beauty was not lost on the Taoists, who some 3,000 years ago deemed the mountain a home of the Immortals, elevated beings so removed from worldly concerns that their skin is unlined by worry. Though most of the temples here hav
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:The Laoshan Scenic District is an easy drive along the coast from the city of Qingdao, 19 miles or so to the west. About two million visitors come each year to ascend Laoshan’s peaks, which are strewed with oddly shaped moraines resembling stacks
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:Along the path, lilies bloomed like orange flares, and hikers before us had marked the way by knotting red ribbons to the tree branches as is done in Chinese temples. The forest directed us with the soft rustle of a thousand prayers. Still, someh
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:The trail began at Dahedong, a village in the shadow of a great dam, and climbed up steep terraces of tea fields before winding along a dry creek, a tumble of boulders suspended in mid-flow down the slope. When I touched them to steady myself, t
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:Toronto has embraced the trend with particular fervor. In a city where winters begin early and end late, every day of the week a new, or nearly new, ultra-local organic farmers’ market can be found in neighborhood parks; each one named for its ba
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:FOR some, the term locavore has gone from revolutionary to groan-worthy, conjuring images of holier-than-thou elites with the means to worry about not just where, but by whom, their cheese is made. And yet, as easy as it might be to dismiss eatin
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:But the mice that were exercising had even healthier brains and better memory scores than the low-fat group -- even if they had remained on a high-fat diet. In other words, exercise was "more effective than diet control in preventing high-fa
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:The mice that had been switched to a low-fat diet had fewer plaques and better memories than the control group.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:After an additional 10 weeks, this last group, the animals that ate lots of fat and lounged around their cages, had developed far more deposits of the particular brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease than the other mice. They als
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:A third group began both a low-fat diet and an exercise routine, while the remainder of the mice continued to eat the high-fat diet and didn't exercise.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:So the scientists set out now to tease out the effects of each intervention by first feeding all of their mice a high-fat diet for 10 weeks, then switching some of them to low-fat kibble, while moving others to cages equipped with running wheels.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:But it hadn't been clear in these earlier experiments which was more effective at halting the loss of memory, a leaner diet or regular rodent workouts.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:Earlier studies by the same scientists had shown that a high-fat diet exacerbated the animals' progression to full-blown dementia, and that both a low-fat diet and exercise slowed the animals' mental decline.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:That finding echoes those of another study presented last month at the Society for Neuroscience meeting. In it, researchers at Kyoto University in Japan gathered a group of mice bred to have a predisposition to developing a rodent version of Alzh
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:Exercise, in other words, had "reversed the high-fat diet-induced cognitive decline," the study's authors concluded.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:But those animals that were running, even if they were eating lots of fat, showed notable improvements in their ability to think and remember.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:For the next seven weeks, the memory test was repeated weekly in all of the groups. During that time, the performance of the rats eating a high-fat diet continued to decline so long as they didn't exercise.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:Then, half of the animals in each group were given access to running wheels. Their diets didn't change. So, some of the rats on the high-fat diet were now exercising. Some were not. Ditto for the animals eating the normal diet.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:For the next four months, half of the rats ate normal chow. The others happily consumed a much greasier diet, consisting of at least 40 percent fat. Total calories were the same in both diets.
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外语题库32021-05-04
翻译题:The most captivating of these, presented last month at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, began with scientists at the University of Minnesota teaching a group of rats to scamper from one chamber to another when th
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