【读新闻学英语】为什么千万不要用酒店的热水壶！

You might think twice before brewing a cuppa after finding out what some hotel guests are really using their kettles for.
在你发现一些酒店客人拿酒店房间里的水壶真正做什么之后，你也许会在泡杯茶之前再三思一下。
Brew：沏(茶)，泡(茶)
Cuppa：一杯茶
Kettle：水壶

It turns out some hotel guests are choosing to use kettles to get their underwear clean.
其实，很多酒店客人都会选择用烧水壶来清洁他们的内裤。
Underwear：内衣；内裤

You heard correct. And according to Twitter, boiling your underwear is now "a thing".
你听说的是对的。推特上的帖子已经说明，真有煮内裤这种事。

Guy 'Yug' Blomberg tweeted out: "Real question: does anyone I know clean their underwear in a kettle when travelling?
Guy 'Yug' Blomberg发推文说：“老实问：我认识的人里面有人在旅行时用热水壶煮内裤吗？”
Tweet：发推文

After the strange tweet and it's crazy responses, Metro did some research and found out that, yes, this is in fact a very real thing across the globe.
这条奇怪的推文在发出之后得到了疯狂的回应，Metro杂志在进行一些调查后发现，真的，实际上（煮内裤）这事在全球都发生过。

Apparently hotel guests are boiling their undergarments to get rid of bacteria and ensure they are ready for the next day's use.
很明显，酒店客人都利用煮内衣的方法除菌，确保第二天就可以继续穿。
Apparently：明显地；显然地
Undergarment：内衣
Bacteria：细菌

Dr Heather Hendrickson, a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Bio sciences at Massey University in Auckland told Gizmodo: "It is super, super, super, super gross."
奥克兰梅西大学分子生物科学系的高级讲师Heather Hendrickson博士告诉Gizmodo网站说，“这个太太太恶心了。”
Molecular： 分子的

She also revealed that boiling your underwear does not kill all bacteria and introducing bacteria from underwear into drinking water for human consumption is potentially deadly.
她也透露称，煮内裤并不会杀死所有细菌，而且人们如果饮用带有内裤上细菌的饮用水还有致命的可能。
Reveal：透露；揭露
Drinking water：饮用水
Consumption：饮用
Deadly：致命的

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"These don't cause sickness if they are consumed, but their presence in certain environments can encourage them to produce a toxin that can be deadly."
“这些细菌一旦（随水）被饮用，它们在特定的环境下就可以产生一种致命的毒素。”
Toxin：毒素〔尤指细菌产生的致病物质〕

On top of this, the underwear will never get properly clean without using laundry detergent, so the gross act is essentially pointless too.
除此之外，如果不适用洗衣粉清洗内裤，内裤也不会完全干净，所以（煮内裤）这种恶心的行为也基本上没什么意义。
On top of this：除此之外
Laundry detergent ：洗衣粉；洗衣液
Gross：恶心的；令人厌恶的
Pointless：无意义的；无用的

Dr Hendrickson added: "There are simply too many unknowns and hotel kettles are not industrial strength cleaning facilities."
Hendrickson博士补充说： “简直有太多的未知事件了，酒店的热水壶根本不是具备工业强度的清洗设备。”
Cleaning facility：清洗装置；清洗装置

But it turns out boiling underwear isn't even the worst thing guests have done with kettles as there were also reports of customers urinating inside them.
但是其实用水壶煮内裤并不是酒店客人做过的最坏的事，因为还有人反映说有客人在水壶里撒过尿。
Urinate：小便；撒尿

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