一詞：米飯吃不完能放冰箱保鮮嗎？別，5天以上就可能致命！

v. 複製；再生

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If meat is left out on the counter for too long, we all know we need to throw it out. But what about rice or pasta?

我們都知道，如果把肉放在櫃檯上太久，就得扔掉它。那米飯和意大利麪呢？

Although that carby goodness might seem harmless after sitting on the bench for a bit, you'll probably think twice about it once you hear about the bacterium Bacillus cereus.

雖然在凳子上坐了一會兒之後， carby goodness（我不知道該怎麼翻譯這兩個詞） 似乎是無害的，但如果你聽說過蠟樣芽孢桿菌，你可能就會重新考慮一下。

It's not a particularly rare germ. B. cereus will happily live wherever it can – soil, food, or in the gut.

這不是一種特別罕見的細菌。蠟樣芽孢桿菌能快樂地生活在它所能生活的任何地方——土壤、食物或內臟中。

"The known natural habitats of B. cereus are wide-ranging, including soil, animals, insects, dust and plants," Anukriti Mathur, a biotechnology researcher at the Australian National University, explained to Science Alert.

“已知的蠟樣芽孢桿菌的自然棲息地的範圍很廣，其中包括土壤、動物、昆蟲、灰塵和植物，”澳大利亞國立大學生物技術研究員安努克里提·馬瑟向《科學警告》解釋道。

"The bacteria will reproduce by utilising the nutrients from the food products [..] including rice, dairy products, spices, dried foods and vegetables."

“細菌會利用食物中的營養物質來繁殖，包括大米、奶製品、香料、乾糧和蔬菜。”

Some strains of this bacterium are helpful for probiotics, but others can give you a nasty bout of food poisoning if given the ability to grow and proliferate - such as when you store food in the wrong conditions.

這種細菌的一些菌株對益生菌是有幫助的，但在錯誤的儲存條件下儲存食物可能會使其他菌株生長增殖，而使你遭受嚴重的食物中毒。

The worst scenarios can even bring death.

最糟糕的是它甚至會致死。

In 2005, one such case was recorded in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology - five children in one family got sick from eating four-day-old pasta salad.

2005年《臨牀微生物學》雜誌記錄了這樣一個案例——一個家庭的5個孩子因爲吃了4天的意麪沙拉而生病。

According to the case study, pasta salad was prepared on a Friday, taken to a picnic on Saturday. After coming back from the picnic it was stored in the fridge until Monday evening, when the kids were fed it for dinner.

該案例分析表明，意麪沙拉是在週五準備的，週六被帶去野餐。野餐回來後，它被儲存在冰箱裏，直到週一晚上，孩子們把它當作了晚飯。

That night the children began vomiting, and were taken to hospital. Tragically, the youngest child died; another suffered from liver failure but survived, and the others had less severe food poisoning and could be treated with fluids.

那天晚上孩子們開始嘔吐，然後被送往醫院。不幸的是，最小的孩子死了；另外一個孩子肝功能衰竭但他活了下來，其他孩子食物中毒沒有那麼嚴重，可以輸液治療。

"B. cereus is a well-known cause of food-borne illness, but infection with this organism is not commonly reported because of its usually mild symptoms," the researchers explain.

研究人員解釋道：“衆所周知，蠟樣芽孢桿菌是引起食源性疾病的原因之一，但由於其症狀通常比較輕微，所以感染這種病菌並不常被報道。”

"A fatal case due to liver failure after the consumption of pasta salad is described and demonstrates the possible severity."

“食用意麪沙拉導致肝功能衰竭而致死的案例說明了這種細菌潛在的危險性。”

從re+produce的構成，能知道這個詞的意思

She tried to reproduce his accent.

她試圖模仿他的口音。

A fairly common belief is that dreams reproduce the events of the day before.

一個普遍的觀念是，夢境再現了白天的生活。