每日英語跟讀 Ep.K273: About Japan - A Japanese mayor learned you don’t bite someone else’s medal
Olympic athletes have long been photographed biting their medals, a celebratory if not entirely hygienic gesture.
奧運選手總被拍攝到咬著獎牌，這是一種並不是那麼衛生的慶祝方式。
But typically they’re biting their own medals. A mayor in Japan learned the hard way that chomping on someone else’s doesn’t go over as well.
但他們通常咬的是自己的獎牌。日本的一名市長透過痛苦經驗學到，咬別人的獎牌可不像選手咬自己的獎牌那般令人接受。
Mayor Takashi Kawamura of Nagoya apologized after biting the gold medal of Miu Goto, a member of the Japanese national softball team, during a ceremony on Wednesday as he stood in front of a backdrop promoting coronavirus safety precautions. He was immediately pilloried on social media, where some Olympians said they would be furious if it happened to them. Others just thought it was gross.
名古屋市長河村隆之為他週三在一場典禮上咬了日本國家女壘隊成員後藤希友的金牌致歉，當時他的背後布景是宣導新冠病毒安全預防措施。河村（的咬金牌之舉）立刻在社群媒體被公審，部分奧運選手說，這事若發生在自己身上會超火大。其他人則覺得就是噁心。
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Genome-edited tomato enters Japanese market基因組編輯的番茄在日本上市
Sicilian Rouge High GABA is a special type of tomato designed to contain high levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an amino acid believed to aid relaxation and help lower blood pressure.
「高GABA西西里胭脂」是一種特殊的番茄，富含「γ-氨基丁酸」（GABA），據信這種氨基酸可以讓人放鬆，並有助於降低血壓。
Tokyo-based startup Sanatech Seed Co. teamed up with scientists at the University of Tsukuba to develop a new variety of tomatoes using CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology. Named Sicilian Rouge High GABA, this new type of tomato contains five to six times the normal level of GABA.
總部在東京的新創企業Sanatech Seed和築波大學的科學家，利用CRISPR/Cas9基因編輯技術，聯合研發出這種名為「高GABA西西里胭脂」的新品種番茄。這種新種番茄的GABA含量是普通番茄的5到6倍。
According to Japanese media, the company removed an inhibitory domain within the tomato’s genome to enable it to produce these high levels of GABA.
日本媒體報導，該公司移除了番茄基因組中的一個抑制域，從而使其能夠生成大量GABA。
Unlike genetically modified foods, genome-edited plant varieties are considered just as safe as varieties improved using conventional methods because no outside gene is introduced during the process.
和基因改造食品不同，基因組編輯植物被認為和用傳統方法改良的新品種一樣安全，因為在基因編輯過程中沒有加入外來基因。Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1482799; https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1484661