英語聽力文摘興奮劑，讓人沉浮

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科學研究證明，使用興奮劑會對人的身心健康產生許多直接的危害。使用不同種類和不同劑量的禁用藥物，對人體的損害程度也不相同。一般說來，使用興奮劑的主要危害如下:——出現嚴重的性格變化——產生藥物依賴性——導致細胞和器官功能異常——產生過敏反應，損害免疫力——引起各種感染(如肝炎和艾滋病)。使用興奮劑的危害主要來自激素類和刺激劑類的藥物。特別令人擔心的是，許多有害作用只是在數年之后才表現出來，而且即使是醫(yī)生也分辨不出哪些運動員正處于危險期，哪些暫時還不會出問題。為提高競技能力而使用的能暫時性改變身體條件和精神狀態(tài)的藥物和技術。使用興奮劑不僅損害奧林匹克精神，破壞運動競賽的公平原則，而且嚴重危害運動員身體健康。國際奧委會嚴禁運動員使用興奮劑。目前禁用的藥物和技術有七大類：刺激劑、麻醉止痛劑、合成代謝類固醇、beta阻滯劑、利尿劑、肽激素及類似物、血液興奮劑等。

How do steroids work, and what makes them so dangerous? Find out on this Moment of Science.

From federal investigations into Major League Baseball(美國職業(yè)棒球大聯盟) to allegations of substance abuse in track and field, performance enhancing drugs(興奮劑) have been in the news a lot. The most well-known performance enhancers are steroids(類固醇), drugs that can make athletes bigger and stronger. But they can also cause serious medical problems.

So how do steroids work, and what makes them so dangerous?

First, it’s important to understand that the body naturally produces steroids. For men, the best known is testosterone(睪丸激素). Testosterone is an anabolic steroid(合成代謝類固醇), meaning that it encourages new muscle growth. So the more testosterone you have in you, the greater potential you have to be bigger and stronger. It makes sense, then, that artificial anabolic steroids mimic testosterone produced in the body.

Here’s how they work. Anabolic steroids attach to cells and encourage them to produce more protein, which muscles need to grow and become stronger. So steroids basically (1)speed up and enhance the process of muscle growth that you can accomplish by lifting weights and other kinds of exercise. A weightlifter on steroids will develop larger muscles and do so faster than a “clean” weightlifter.

Millions of people take performance enhancing drugs such as caffeine and vitamins every day. But unlike these drugs, steroids can cause serious, long lasting problems. For example, steroid use puts extra pressure on the liver to cleanse the bloodstream of the many toxins in steroids.

Prolonged steroid use can result in liver damage. They also affect brain chemistry(腦化學), and can cause depression and severe mood swings known as ‘roid rage(類固醇癲狂)’. There’s certainly nothing wrong with building your body, but using steroids to do so will ultimately (2)break you down.

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興奮劑，讓人沉浮

從對美國職業(yè)棒球大聯盟藥物濫用指控的聯邦調查來看，服用興奮劑已經成為一個熱門話題。其中最著名的興奮劑是類固醇，它可以讓運動員更大更強。但是它們也會導致嚴重的醫(yī)學問題。

那么類固醇是怎樣發(fā)揮作用的呢?是什么使它們如此危險?

首先，知道身體能夠自然產生類固醇是很重要的。對于男性來說，最廣為大家所知的就是睪丸激素。睪丸激素是一種合成代謝類固醇，它能夠促進新的肌肉的生長。因此如果你的睪丸激素越多，你的潛力就越大越強。這樣一來，人造合成類固醇模仿人體內分泌的睪丸激素應運而生了。

它們是這樣工作的。合成類固醇依附于細胞上，促使它們產生更多肌肉生長和壯大所需要的蛋白質。因此類固醇主要是加快和加強肌肉生長，而這樣的效果你可以通過舉重和其它的運動練習達到。一個服用類固醇舉重運動員的肌肉會比一個“干凈”的運動員生長得更大更快。

成千上萬的人們每天都在服用咖啡因，維他命之類的興奮劑。但是與其它藥物不同的是類固醇會導致嚴重，持久的問題。例如，使用膽固醇會對肝臟凈化血液帶來壓力，因為膽固醇里有很多毒素。

長期使用類固醇可導致肝損害。它們同樣會影響腦化學，并會導致抑郁癥和被稱為“類固醇癲狂”的嚴重情緒波動。強身健體當然沒有錯誤，但是如果你使用類固醇來完成，那么最終你會垮掉。

Notes:

(1)speed up 加速;使加速

I sped up my car as soon as I left her house.

一離開她家，我便加快了速度。