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English to Chinese: Smoking really does make you look older, a twin study confirms
Source text - English You know smoking doesn’t do any favors for your face – or your lungs, or your heart, or just about any other part of your body, for that matter! – but a new study of twins hints at the ways the habit makes you look older than you really are.
In what is perhaps the best detail of the study, researchers used the annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio (the "Largest Annual Gathering of Twins in the World!") to round up the 79 identical pairs they include in the report. They found out that one of which had been smoking for at least five years older than the other.
They identified a few major areas of accelerated aging in the faces of the smoking twins: The smokers' upper eyelids drooped while the lower lids sagged, and they had more wrinkles around the mouth. The smokers were also more likely to have jowls, according to the study, which was published today in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Smoking reduces oxygen to the skin, which also decreases blood circulation, and that can result in weathered, wrinkled, older-looking skin, explains Dr. Bahman Guyuron, a plastic surgeon in Cleveland, Ohio, and the lead author of the study.
But if you’re currently a smoker, the point of this research is not to make you feel bad. Because stopping or cutting back on the habit now can make a difference -- in all aspects of your health, including the skin damage to your face.
We tell people, as soon as they stop smoking, the repair to not only to their skin but their lungs, their heart vessels -- it starts to repair itself,” says Dr. Robin Ashinoff, medical director of of dermatologic surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.
Translation - Chinese 你知道吸煙不會對你任何好處, 你的臉 - 你的肺，你的心，或者你的身體的任何其他器官，對於這個問題, 一項對雙胞胎的研究顯示，有吸煙習慣會讓容貌看上去比實際年紀顯著蒼老。
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I have been living in the United States, California, for 14 years since 1999. I was borned in Hong Kong and my native language is Chinese fluently speaking in Cantonese and Mandarin as well. After I graduated from high school in Hong Kong, I decided to study aboard to promote myself to be more independent.
Of course, English is my second language which I have to overcome language barriers as majority of people from Asian countries at the very beginning in the US. After staying here long enough, days after days, years after years, I become more confidence using English as my primary language to communicate with others in study and work.
I was taking community college in age of 18 in Los Angeles, and then I graduated from 4-year university of University of California, Irvine in majoring of Computer Science in 2006. During my spare time on weekends, I enjoy movies, cycling, fishing, and travelling with friends around.
Currently, I am working at a trading company as Product Manager in duties of dealing with oversea vendors in China, product commericalization, and project management. Majority of my tasks need to translate some technical documents into either English or Chinese. I believe I can handle all such jobs as a translator as you prefer.
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