VOA慢速英语:Exploring the Long and Short of Hair Loss

短语讲解：

1. Next to the face, hair is one of the main qualities people look for when they consider a woman’s beauty.

next to 仅次于，紧接
例句：He ranks next to Coen. 
 他的地位仅次于昆。
look for 寻找
例句：He has come all the way from Leeds to look for a job. 
 他从利兹远道而来寻找工作。

2. People are born with all of the hair follicles they are ever going to have. The average person has about one hundred thousand hair follicles.

be born with 天生具有…
例句：Not everyone is born with such endowments as you. 
 并非所有的人生来都像你这样有天赋。

3. The hair sticking out from the skin is known as the hair shaft.

stick out 伸出来；断言，坚持
例句1：Your hair is sticking out in the back.
你脑袋后面的头发竖起来了。
例句2：The men are sticking out for higher wages.
人们坚决要求提高工资。

4. The shaft is made up of dead cells that have been pushed up through the root.

push up 向上推，增高，提高
例句：What's pushing up the price of oil?
什么促使油价上涨?

5. In time, the old cells are cut off from the blood supply and begin to form a hard protein called keratin.

cut off 砍下，切断
例句：Kehr cut off some flowers from the bush.
凯尔从树丛中剪下一些花。

6. During this period, hair grows at a rate of about three tenths millimeters a day, or one centimeter a month.

at a rate of 以…的速度
例句：The Sahara desert, for example, creeps southward at a rate of thirty miles annually. 
 例如，撒哈拉沙漠以每年30英里的速度向南方推移。 

7. It is then that hair growth begins to slow down.

slow down 慢下来，减速
例句：The machine slowed down and stopped.
机器逐渐减慢了转速, 终于停住了。

8. However, others struggle to grow shoulder length hair.

struggle to 努力，争取
例句：His lips twitched and he seemed to struggle to compose himself. 
 他的嘴唇扭歪了，他极力挣扎着使自己镇定。

9. In addition, the hairs may get thinner and shorter.

in addition 另外
例句：In addition, external energy appears as heat. 
 此外，外能还表现为热。 

10. It is also the term used to describe the medical condition that results in the loss of hair.

result in 导致，结果是
例句：The quarrel resulted in his mother leaving the house.
争吵导致了他母亲离家出走。

11. They said many of the genes are also linked to autoimmune diseases.

link to 与…连接，联系
例句：Fingerprints linked the suspect to the crime.
指纹使嫌疑犯与犯罪联系起来。

12. The researchers are now working on a genetic test to predict the severity of the disease.

work on 从事，致力于
例句：He has been working on a new novel for over a year now.
近一年多来, 他一直在写一部新小说。