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　　Nothing says “overeducated egghead” like a pair ofcoke-bottle glasses.

　　没有人曾经说过啃死书的呆子戴着一副可乐瓶底似的眼镜。

　　But even cliches sometimes hit the nerd on the head.

　　但是甚至陈词滥调有时候也会无端说中。

　　Because a new study finds that nearsightedness islinked to the number of years spent in school.

　　因为一项研究发现近视眼和在学校上学的时间有关。

　　The findings can be viewed in the journal Ophthalmology.

　　这一发现已经在《眼科学》杂志上发表。

　　In the past century, the prevalence of myopia—science-speak for being able to see only what'sright in front of you—has been on the rise.

　　在过去的一个世纪中，近视眼一直呈现上升趋势，这都是拜科学所赐让你看清楚眼前。

　　So much so that it can't all be blamed on geeky genes.

　　近视眼的增长如此多以致于都不用怪罪于基因遗传。

　　To nail down the potential environmental influences, researchers focused on the classroom.

　　为了明确可能存在的环境影响，研究人员将研究重点放在了教室这个特殊场所上。

　　They gave eye exams to nearly 5000 German subjects in a project called the Gutenberg HealthStudy.

　　在这个名为古腾伯格的项目中，他们为对近5000名学生做了眼科检查。

　　The researchers found that individuals with 13 years of education were more myopic than thosewho didn't get past primary school.

　　研究人员发现，那些经历过13年书本洗礼学生的近视率比那些小学毕业还没毕业的人要高很多。

　　And more than half of those with a university degree could use a set of specs, compared to lessthan a quarter of the folks who quit after high school or secondary school.

　　而在拥有大学学历的人中，一半以上戴着眼镜，而相比之下高中或者初中后就退学的人戴眼镜却更少。

　　All that learning takes a lot of reading.

　　所有的学习都需要大量的阅读。

　　Which itself is associated with nearsightedness.

　　这就会跟近视联系起来。

　　Or the nearsighted may gravitate toward pursuits easier to see—like hitting the books.

　　或者近视眼的人在啃书本时，可能会想看的更清楚而选择离书更近。

　　Either way, seems that being a good student may not require great pupils.

　　不管怎样，似乎做一个好学生并不需要大大的瞳孔。

　　词语解释

　　1.link to 联系

　　How do you link to it?

　　你怎样连接到它?

　　They link to the page I found them on.

　　它们能连接到我所找到的那些网页。

　　2.blame on 把责任推给…

　　This technique is often accompanied by adding blame on an enemy country or political group.

　　这种手段经常伴随着对敌对国家或者政治团体的指责。

　　This they blame on the unfair perception that Pakistan is full of fundamentalists plotting deathand destruction in the West.

　　为此他们指责巴基斯坦在西部的死亡人数众多和和遭受毁灭严重地区不公正的预见。

　　3.focus on 集中于

　　If you focus the sun's rays on dry wood with a burning-glass, it will start burning.

　　如果你用取火镜使太阳光线在聚焦在干木头上，木头就会燃烧起来。

　　Our meeting focuses on the question of women's right.

　　我们会议的重点是妇女权利问题。

　　4.compare to 把...比作，比喻为

　　How does this development process compare to the approach you use today?

　　相比你现在使用的方法，这个开发方法如何呢?

　　I accept whatever God sends at that moment and take it for the best. Somebody is the best ifwe have no one else to compare to, right?

　　所以就接受上帝送来的任何东西，并且把它看成是最好的，如果没有任何人可以比较的话，那个人就是最好的，不是吗?

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