1、Eat chocolate,win the Nobel Prize?Of all the chocolate research out there,the most unabashed tribute to the dark gold has to be a study just published in one of the worlds most prestigious medical journals.Drum roll,please.The higher a countrys chocolate consumption,the more Nobel laureates it spawn
2、s per capita,according to findings released in the New England Journal of Medicine.unabashed,nbt 大胆的大胆的prestigiousprstIds有名望的有名望的laureatelrt得奖者 spawnspn引发引发,产生per capita 人均人均 intake n.引入量引入量whopping wpadj.巨大的；天大的巨大的；天大的 lead the pack一群中最好的一个一群中最好的一个 The Swiss,of course,lead the pack,closely followed
3、 by the Swedes and the Danes.The US is somewhere in the middle and the nation would have to up its cocoa intake by a whopping 275 million pounds(125 million kg)a year to produce one more laureate,said Franz Messerli,who did the analysis.The amount it takes,its actually quite stunning,you know,said M
4、esserli,who runs the hypertension program at St Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in New York.The Swiss eat 120 bars-that is,3-ounce bars (85 grams)-per year,for every man,woman and child.Thats the average.“Messerli admitted the whole idea is absurd,although the data are legitimate and contain a few lessons
5、about the fallibility of science.stunning adj.极好的极好的 hypertension,haptnn n.高血压；过度紧张高血压；过度紧张 ounce n.盎司；少量；盎司；少量；legitimate adj.合法的；正当的；合理的合法的；正当的；合理的fallibility n.易误；不可靠；出错性易误；不可靠；出错性 He came up with the idea for the study after seeing a study that linked flavonoids,a type of antioxidants present in
6、 cocoa and wine,to better scores on cognitive tests.He began with industry data on chocolate intake in 23 countries and a list from Wikipedia ranking countries according to the number of Nobel laureates per capita.flavonoid flevnd n.黄酮类黄酮类antioxidant,ntksdnt n.助剂助剂 抗氧化剂抗氧化剂 cognitivekntv adj.认知的认知的W
7、ikipedia 维基百科维基百科 I started plotting this in a hotel room in Kathmandu,because I had nothing else to do,and I could not believe my eyes,he told Reuters Health.All the countries linked up neatly on a graph,with higher chocolate intake tied to more laureates.plot vi.策划Kathmandu,ktmndu:n.加德满都（尼泊尔的首都）ne
8、atly整齐的，整洁的 Its not the first time scientists have found correlations that seem to defy all logic-and indeed may.The number of storks across Europe has been linked to birth rates,for instance,and sunspots have been tied to suicides in men.correlation,krlen 相关logic 逻辑逻辑stork乌鸦乌鸦sunspot 太阳黑子太阳黑子 Anoth
9、er possibility is that the link is real,but meaningless.“National chocolate consumption is correlated with a countrys wealth and high-quality research is correlated with a countrys wealth,”said Eric Cornell,an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001.So therefore chocolate i
10、s going to be correlated with high-quality research,but there is no causal connection there.When it comes to chocolate,several researchers have suggested dark varieties might benefit the brain,the heart and even help cut excess weight.causalkzl adj.有原因的varietie 种类种类excess 过度的，超额的过度的，超额的unabashednbt
11、大胆的大胆的prestigiousprstIds有名望的有名望的laureatelrt得奖者 spawnspn引发引发,产生per capita 人均人均 intake n.引入量引入量whopping wpadj.巨大的；天大的巨大的；天大的 lead the pack一群中最好的一个一群中最好的一个 stunning adj.极好的极好的 hypertension,haptnn n.高血压；过度紧张高血压；过度紧张 ounce n.盎司；少量；盎司；少量；legitimate adj.合法的；正当的；合理的合法的；正当的；合理的fallibility n.易误；不可靠；出错性易误；不可靠；出错性 flavonoid flevnd n.黄酮类antioxidant,ntksdnt n.助剂 抗氧化剂 cognitive kntv adj.认知的Wikipedia 维基百科correlation,krlen 相关logic 逻辑逻辑stork乌鸦乌鸦sunspot 太阳黑子太阳黑子causalkzl adj.有原因的varietie 种类种类excess 过度的，超额的过度的，超额的Thanks for your attention!
