Show Me Some Sugar1)
For diabetics2) on the go,drawing blood to check sugar levels every two hours or so is a major inconvenience.Now comes a tool to ease the anguish3).The wrist-mounted GlucoWatch Biographer checks sugar every20minutes by sending tiny electric currents through the skin.If a reading is abnormal4),the watch alerts the patient to recheck it traditionally.Future incarnations5) will replace finger pricks altogether.
血糖測試儀
患糖尿病時,每兩個小時左右就要抽一次血,以檢查血糖量,這樣帶來極大不便?,F(xiàn)在有一種工具問世,可以減輕痛苦。戴在手腕上的血糖測試儀通過向皮膚中發(fā)送細(xì)小的電流來每20分鐘核查一次血糖。如果一次讀數(shù)不正常,則該測試儀便對患者發(fā)出警報,要其用傳統(tǒng)方式重新加以核查。未來的型號將會徹底取代劃破手指的檢查方法。
NOTE 注釋:
sugar [5Fu^E] n. 血糖
diabetic [daIE5betIk] n. 糖尿病患者
anguish [5AN^wiF] n. 痛苦, 苦惱
abnormal [Ab5nC:mEl] adj. 反常的
incarnation [7inkB:5neiFEn] n. 型號