【番外】关于咖啡--喝咖啡对身体的影响

ulcer n.溃疡

excess n. adj. 过量，过量的
In an excess of enthusiasm I agreed to work late.
我一时热情过度答应了工作到很晚。
Excess food is stored as fat.
多余的食物作为脂肪贮存起来。

particularly adv. 特别地
Traffic is bad, particularly in the city centre.
The lecture was not particularly interesting.
讲座并不特别精彩。

particular adj. 特别的
There is one particular patient I'd like you to see.
我想让你见一个病人。
Is there a particular type of book he enjoys?
他有特别喜爱的一类书籍吗？

suggestive adj. 引起联想的
music that is suggestive of warm summer days
使人想起温暖夏日的音乐

associated v.联合 n. 伙伴adj. 联合的，有关的
I always associate the smell of baking with my childhood.
一闻到烘烤的味道我就想起了童年。
business associates
业务伙伴
an associate company in Japan
日本的一家联营公司

fret n. v. 躁动，焦虑
Her baby starts to fret as soon as she goes out of the room.
她一走出房间，婴儿就躁动。
Fretting about it won't help.
苦恼于事无补。
She was in a fret.
她很烦躁。

depression n.抑郁，抑郁症

a lower risk of 更低的…风险

lethal adj.
a lethal weapon
致命的武器
You and that car─it's a lethal combination!
你和那辆车真是一对杀手！

prostate 前列腺

stroke v. n. 打，击打
What a beautiful stroke!
At the first stroke it will be 9 o'clock exactly.
to have a stroke
患中风

come across 遇到

Parkinson's disease 帕金森病

diabetes n. 糖尿病

tend v. 趋向于

literature 文学，文学作品
literal adj. 字面的，文字的
literally 字面上的，确实的

substances n. 物质
a chemical substance
化学物质
illegal substances
非法物质

lesser 较小的，次要的
people of lesser importance

cancel each other out 相互抵消
The advantages and disadvantages would appear to cancel each other out.
利弊参半。

Remember when people (and their doctors) used to worry that coffee would harm their hearts, give them ulcers, and make them overly nervous?
In excess, coffee, and more particularly, caffeine, can cause problems. But the fretting about two or three cups a day, or even more, is fading as study results suggestive of health benefits from coffee keep on coming in. In 2011, researchers reported findings that coffee drinking is associated with a lower risk of depression among women, a lower risk of lethal prostate cancer among men, and a lower risk of stroke among men and women. Go back a little further, and you'll come across reports of possible (it's not a done deal) protective effects against everything from Parkinson's disease to diabetes to some types of cancer.
Caffeine has been studied more than any other ingredient in coffee, and it tends to get credit if the body part benefited is the brain. But coffee contains literally a thousand different substances, and some of the lesser lights are thought to be responsible for healthful effects in other parts of the body. Some studies show caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee as having the same effect, which suggests that something else in coffee is involved.
It gets complicated, though. Caffeine and some of these other substances in coffee seem to have their good and bad sides, and coffee's overall effect may depend on how much they cancel each other out.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/what-is-it-about-coffee