国外媒体:薄荷味的鞋垫解决脚臭问题

 

Ever worried if your feet smell? Especially when you have to take off your shoes in front of other people?

你曾经担心过自己的脚散发出难闻气味嘛？尤其是你必须得在其他人面前脱鞋的时候。

Well, at least in Japan, such circumstances are very common in places like private homes, Japanese-style bars and restaurants. And one shoemaker in Tokyo is offering a solution to smelly feet with new minty footwear.

至少在日本，这样的情形十分普通，比如在家里，日式的酒吧和饭店。东京的一个造鞋商发明出带有薄荷味的些来解决脚臭问题。

When I wear stockings or tights, they get sweaty. And that worries me when I have to take off my shoes in places like Japanese-style bars. Somewhere in my mind, I'd always think, “Ah, do my feet smell? ”

当我穿长袜或紧身衣时，衣物会有捍卫。当我在日式酒吧这类的场所，必须脱鞋的时候，那令我很担忧。我总是在想“我的脚闻起来臭吗？”

But since Miura started using these insoles a few months ago, she says foul¹ smell in her boots has been replaced by the refreshing² scent³ of mint.

自从Miura 几个月前开始使用这样的鞋垫，她说靴子里的汗味被清新的薄荷味所取代。

The system is pretty simple: A mint-imbued sponge embedded⁴ in the heel of this insole pumps out mint fumes⁵ into the shoe as the wearer walks around.

原理很简单：鞋垫的脚跟部里有薄荷浸透的海绵，当人走路时，就会散发出薄荷味。

Some restaurant owners hope that the mint-puffing insoles would help bring more female customers to traditional Japanese-style bars and restaurants in the future.

一些饭店的店主希望有薄荷味的鞋垫将来会使更多的女性顾客来传统的日式酒吧和饭店。

1 foul   

adj.污秽的；邪恶的；v.弄脏；妨害；犯规；n.犯规

参考例句：

• Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
• What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！

2 refreshing   

adj.使精神振作的，使人清爽的，使人喜欢的

参考例句：

• I find it'so refreshing to work with young people in this department.我发现和这一部门的青年一起工作令人精神振奋。
• The water was cold and wonderfully refreshing.水很涼，特别解乏提神。

3 scent   

n.气味，香味，香水，线索，嗅觉；v.嗅，发觉

参考例句：

• The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
• The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。

4 embedded   

a.扎牢的

参考例句：

• an operation to remove glass that was embedded in his leg 取出扎入他腿部玻璃的手术
• He has embedded his name in the minds of millions of people. 他的名字铭刻在数百万人民心中。

5 fumes   

n.(强烈而刺激的)气味，气体

参考例句：

• The health of our children is being endangered by exhaust fumes. 我们孩子们的健康正受到排放出的废气的损害。
• Exhaust fumes are bad for your health. 废气对健康有害。