“老爺車”英文怎么說(shuō)
在加拿大有一群愛(ài)車族，他們鐘愛(ài)的不是高性能或最新款的汽車，而是富有歷史韻味的老爺車。那么老爺車的英文表達(dá)是什么呢?
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It is evident that many Canadian baby boomers are indulging in vintage cars they could not afford when they were young.
顯然許多在二戰(zhàn)后生育高峰期(1945-1952)出生的加拿大人都對(duì)老爺車情有獨(dú)鐘，他們年輕時(shí)是買不起的這樣的車的。
在上面的報(bào)道中，vintage car就是“老爺車”。老爺車是人們對(duì)現(xiàn)在被珍藏的古老而享有盛名的汽車的稱呼。至于有多古老才算老爺車，目前尚無(wú)統(tǒng)一、明確的規(guī)定，一般認(rèn)為至少是四五十年前生產(chǎn)的汽車。老爺車應(yīng)該是在出廠時(shí)就擁有優(yōu)良設(shè)計(jì)，高工藝標(biāo)準(zhǔn)及制作，十分高檔、珍貴，而且現(xiàn)在基本保持原貌，否則只能稱為old car(廢舊車)。收藏車的人被稱為car collector。
Vintage在這里的意思是“古老而有聲譽(yù)的”、“古式的”、“古色古香的”，如果一個(gè)女孩告訴你她要去vintage store買東西，一般指的是復(fù)古風(fēng)格的服裝店，那里可能有名人穿過(guò)的vintage clothing(古董衫)。
為了環(huán)保，現(xiàn)在各國(guó)都提倡人們使用green car(新能源汽車)或zero-emission vehicle(零排放車輛)，我國(guó)也在逐步淘汰高污染的yellow label car(黃標(biāo)車)。
幽默感使人長(zhǎng)壽
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Even better, you might live longer, a Norwegian researcher reports.
Adults who have a sense of humor outlive those who don't find life funny, and the survival edge is particularly large for people with cancer, says Sven Svebak of the medical school at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
He released his study of about 54,000 Norwegians, tracked for seven years, at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting.
At the start, patients filled out questionnaires on how easily they found humor in real-life situations and how important a humorous perspective was.
The greater a role humor played in their lives, the greater their chances of surviving the seven years, Svebak says. Adults who scored in the top one-quarter for humor appreciation were 35% more likely to be alive than those in the bottom quarter, he says.
In a subgroup of 2,015 who had a cancer diagnosis at the start, a great sense of humor cut someone's chances of death by about 70% compared with adults with a poor sense of humor, Svebak says.
笑一笑，世界與你同笑。但據(jù)挪威研究人員稱，笑的功效甚至不止于此，笑還可以延年益壽。
挪威科技大學(xué)醫(yī)學(xué)院的斯文·斯維白克說(shuō)，有幽默感的成年人比認(rèn)為生活無(wú)趣的人壽命長(zhǎng)，這一點(diǎn)在癌癥患者身上尤為明顯。
斯文對(duì)約54000個(gè)挪威人進(jìn)行了長(zhǎng)達(dá)七年的跟蹤調(diào)查，他在美國(guó)身心研究學(xué)會(huì)召開的一個(gè)會(huì)議上公布了這一調(diào)查結(jié)果。
研究人員先讓病人們填寫調(diào)查問(wèn)卷，其中包括在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中發(fā)現(xiàn)幽默的容易程度以及幽默視角的重要性等問(wèn)題。
斯維白克說(shuō)，病人的幽默感越強(qiáng)，他在七年之內(nèi)活下來(lái)的可能性越大。幽默感得分位居前四分之一的病人生存下來(lái)的幾率比排在后四分之一的病人高35%。
據(jù)斯維白克介紹，對(duì)一個(gè)共有2015名癌癥病人的小組的研究表明，幽默感較強(qiáng)的人死亡的幾率比沒(méi)什么幽默感的人低70%左右。