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Dandruff: The White Devil 甩掉头皮屑，拒当白雪公主

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You scratch your head and a shower of white flakes descends before your eyes. Is it snowing? Sadly, ___1___. You’ve just got dandruff, and a quick look down at your shoulders, which by now resemble a miniature winter wonderland, shows you just how bad the problem is. You quickly ___2___ the flakes of dead skin and pray that no one has noticed, because, despite the fact that over 50% of people suffer from the complaint, dandruff can be embarrassing.

轻轻搔搔头，却见白雪片片飘落眼前。下雪了吗？可惜不是，你只是有头皮屑而已。垂眼向下一瞥，你的肩膀现在彷佛袖珍版的冬雪仙境，这也显示出问题的严重性。你快速地拂去一片片的死皮，心里暗自祈祷着最好没人发现，因为纵使有超过百分之五十的人有这方面的困扰，头皮屑依旧令人尴尬不已。

The basic cause of dandruff is simple and unavoidable: your skin is constantly renewing itself. ___3___ skin cells get older, they get pushed outward, and then they eventually die and flake off. With most people, these flakes are usually too small to be noticeable. For dandruff sufferers, however, skin cells are shed very quickly, or bind together to form large flakes. A number of ___4___ can cause this to happen. Eating certain types of sugary food, frequent exposure to extreme heat or cold, sweating, and allergic reactions to hair products are all thought to trigger dandruff. But the condition’s main cause is a fungus which grows on your scalp. For those susceptible to an attack of the problem flasks, this fungus grows quickly and, ___5___ causing dandruff, can leave your skin itchy and red.

头皮屑基本的成因虽简单却也无可避免：人的皮肤会不断自我更新。皮肤细胞老化后会被推挤到外，最终因死亡而剥落。对大多数人来说，这些死皮碎屑通常小到难以察觉。但是对头皮屑患者而言，皮肤细胞剥落非常快速，或者会结合形成大片的皮屑。有若干因素会导致此种情况发生：食用某些甜食、经常暴露于极冷或极热的环境中、流汗，以及对美发产品有过敏反应等，上述均被认为会引发头皮屑。不过，引起这种症状的主因其实是生长在头皮上的皮屑牙孢菌。那些易受此问题困扰的人，头皮上的皮屑牙孢菌通常生长较快速，所以除了导致头皮屑生成外，也会使头皮发痒、发红。

Help is at hand, ___6___, in the form of specially medicated anti-dandruff shampoos. Chemicals in these shampoos help remove dead cells and treat the flake-forming fungus. They won’t cure you of dandruff completely, but they should make ___7___ snowstorms a thing of the past.

然而，化身为药用抗屑洗发精的救星就在眼前。这类洗发精所含的化学成份有助于去除坏死的皮肤细胞，并能治疗产生头皮屑的皮屑牙孢菌。虽然这种洗发精无法完全根治头皮屑问题，但它至少可让个人的「暴风雪」成为过去式。

−by Andrew Crosthwaite

Vocabulary

单词发音

scratch [skrætʃ] v. 抓；搔

descend [dɪˋsɛnd] v. 落下; 下降

embarrassing [ɪmˋbærəsɪŋ] adj. 令人尴尬的﹐使人难堪的

unavoidable [͵ʌnəˋvɔɪdəb!] adj. 不可避免的

renew [rɪˋnju] v. 更新

eventually [ɪˋvɛntʃʊəlɪ] adv. 最后，终于

noticeable [ˋnotɪsəb!] adj. 显而易见的，显着的

shed [ʃɛd] v. 使（籽，毛发等）脱落

bind [baɪnd] v. 黏结

extreme [ɪkˋstrim] adj. 极端的，极度的

allergic [əˋlɝdʒɪk] adj. 过敏的

trigger [ˋtrɪgɚ] v. 触发，引起

susceptible [səˋsɛptəb!] adj. 易受……影响的[F][（+to）]

itchy [ˋɪtʃɪ] adj. 痒的

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单词发音

dandruff [ˋdændrəf] n. 头皮屑

shower [ˋʃaʊɚ] n. 冰雹（或风雪等）的一阵[P1]

flake [flek] n. 小薄片

by now 这时, 到此刻为止 already

wonderland [ˋwʌndɚ͵lænd] n. 仙境; 奇境

complaint [kəmˋplent] n. (尤指不严重的)疾病; 抱怨

flake off 剥落 to break away from the whole, perhaps under pressure or because of damage

sufferer [ˋsʌfərɚ] n. 患病者; 受害者

fungus [ˋfʌŋgəs] n. 真菌

scalp [skælp] n.【解】头皮

at hand 在眼前；在附近  happening or present at this time

medicated [ˋmɛdɪ͵ketɪd] adj. 掺入药物的

a thing of the past 老式(或过时)的事物  something that does not exist or happen any more

apart from 除...外  besides

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