Body clock scientists win Nobel Prize
导语： 为什么人们在白天工作，进行各种活动，而一到晚上，就困意连连，只想约周公？——让诺奖得主三人为你一一揭秘！
unravelled: If you unravel a mystery or if it unravels, it gradually becomes clearer and you can work out the answer to it. =decipher
文中同义替换：uncovered
e.g. Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
对健康有深远的含义：their findings had "vast implications for our health and wellbeing".
近义词：profound implications
并列结构使用as well as, 不用and
e.g. A clock ticks in nearly every cell of the human body, as well as in plants, animals and fungi.
e.g. Even our risk of a heart attack soars every morning as our body gets the engine running to start a new day.
sours 来代替rise, 用词多样性
in the short term, but in the long term...
对新陈代谢有重要影响：have a big impact on our metabolism.
轮班工作：rotational shift work
早起的鸟儿和夜猫子：morning larks and others are night owls.
有关生物学的词汇：
Body clock, molecular clocks, molecular feedback loops
daily rhythm=daily basis
heart attack
breakthroughs
fruit flies: 果蝇
circadian timing：昼夜节律
genetic mechanism：基因机制
constant state of jet lag：类比
口语词汇：screw up
连接词：As a result
生词
ghastly: adj, not adv, horrible, very unpleasant
sync with: 与...同步
e.g. The ghastly experience of jet lag is caused by the body being out of sync with the world around it.
on a par with: If you say that two people or things are on a par with each other, you mean that they are equally good or bad, or equally important. 与... 同等重要
e.g. body clocks were viewed as a black box on a par with astrology."
astrology: is the study of the movements of the planets, sun, moon, and stars in the belief that these movements can have an influence on people's lives. 占星术
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