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2024考研英语同源外刊7月:时尚界不透明的化学品世界

The first thing that happened when Mary, an Alaska Airlines attendant, received a new, high-performance, synthetic uniform in the spring of 2011 was a hacking cough. Then a rash bloomed on her chest. Next came migraines, brain fog, a racing heart, and blurry vision. Mary (whose name I’ve withheld to protect her job) was one of hundreds of Alaska Airlines attendants reporting that year that the uniforms were causing blistering rashes, swollen eyelids crusted with pus, hives, and in the most serious case, breathing problems and allergic reactions so severe that one attendant, John, had to be taken off the plane and to the ER multiple times.

2011年春天，当阿拉斯加航空公司的空乘人员玛丽收到一件新的定制服时，首件事就是剧烈干咳。接着，她的胸口起了疹子。接下来是偏头痛、脑雾、心跳加快和视力模糊。玛丽(为了保护她的工作，我没有透露她的名字)是当年阿拉斯加航空公司数百名空乘人员中的一员，他们报告说，制服引起了皮疹、眼皮肿胀、脓痂、荨麻疹，较严重的情况是，呼吸问题和过敏反应非常严重，以至于一名名叫约翰的空乘不得不多次被带下飞机送去急诊室。

Tests commissioned by Alaska Airlines and the flight attendants’ union turned up tributyl phosphate, lead, arsenic, cobalt, antimony, restricted disperse dyes known to cause allergic reactions, toluene, hexavalent chromium, and dimethyl fumarate, an antifungal that had recently been banned in the European Union. But the uniform maker, Twin Hill, avoided culpabilityin court by saying none of these many mixed chemicals, on their own, were present at high enough levels to cause all of the different reactions.

阿拉斯加航空公司和空乘人员工会委托进行的测试发现，磷酸三丁酯、铅、砷、钴、锑、已知会导致过敏反应的限制性分散染料、甲苯、六价铬和富马酸二甲酯(一种在欧盟被禁的抗真菌药物)。但制服制造商Twin Hill在法庭上回避了罪责，称这些混合化学物质本身的含量都不足以引起任何反应。

Alaska Airlines announced in 2013 it would procure new uniforms, without admitting the uniforms had caused health issues. A lawsuit from attendants against Twin Hill was thrown out in 2016 for lack of evidence.

阿拉斯加航空公司在2013年宣布会采购新的制服，但没有承认这些制服造成了健康问题。2016年，空乘人员对Twin Hill提起的诉讼因缺乏证据而被驳回。

 

单词：

sick /sɪk/ adj. 生病的，患病的;病人的;恶心的，想吐的;

opaque /oʊˈpeɪk/ adj. 不透明的，难以理解的;

Alaska Airlines 阿拉斯加航空公司;

attendant /əˈtendənt/ n. 服务员;侍者;

synthetic /sɪnˈθetɪk/ adj. 合成的，人造的;

uniform /ˈjuːnɪfɔːrm/ n. 制服;

hacking /ˈhækɪŋ/ adj. (咳嗽)干涩刺耳的;

cough /kɔːf/ n. 剧烈咳嗽;

rash /ræʃ/ n. 皮疹，疹子;

bloom /bluːm/ vi. 开花，绽放;繁荣，兴旺;

migraine /ˈmaɪɡreɪn/ n. [内科] 偏头痛;

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