研究发现个子矮的人更容易在生活的命运面前倾向不满意。
Researchers found that shorter people tended to be more dissatisfied with their lot in life.
研究者表示,个子矮的人的冠状动脉也更小,这有可能增加血液流动时所出现的问题。
Researchers suggest shorter people have smaller coronary arteries, which could be more affected by problems with blood flow.
举例来说,很多女孩子都会说她们不喜欢个子矮的男孩子,而与此同时却和一个小个子交往过。
For example, girls will say all the time that they aren't attracted to short guys and end up dating a midget.
因此,正如那首歌里唱到的,个子矮的人是不是真的没有活下去的理由了?还是这真的夸大其词了?
So, as the song goes, do short people really have no reason to live, or is that a tall tale?
个子矮的人似乎总与不开心的事结缘:许多研究都表明,他们可能没有那些比他们高的同事赚得多,约会也比个子高的人少、升职也是个子高的人抢风头。
Short people know the sad litany all too well: Numerous studies show that they probably earn less than taller colleagues. They get fewer dates as well as fewer promotions.
邓超是一个幽默的演员,他个子不高也不矮。
Deng Chao is a humorous actor who is neither too tall nor too short.
“我个子矮,体型胖,身手也不灵活,”弗农说,“我希望我20岁的时候就能体验这种飞行,因为每个人都会禁不住爱上它。”
"I'm short, I'm chubby, I'm not spry," Vernon says. "I wish I had been doing this in my 20s. You can't help but love it.
她个子矮,胖乎乎的,圆脸,外表还很孩子气,短发,留在眼睛之上的刘海对她的样貌并无帮助。
She was also, Ms. Pakula writes, "short, chubby, round-faced and childish in appearance, with a short haircut and bangs over her eyes that did nothing for her looks."
对有些女性来说可能难以接受,但一项研究声称,个子较矮的女性比她们个子较高的女同事挣钱要少。
For some women to accept. But shorter females earn less than their loftier colleagues, a study claims.
托尼没有必要为此感到不愉快——这只是他的朋友的澳大利亚口音,而不是在笑话他个子矮。
But Tony shouldn't be upset - it's only his friends' Australian twang (accent) speaking, not their opinions of his height.
好,到时我再给你介绍。她个子比我矮一点儿,金黄色的头发,大眼睛。
OK, then I'll introduce her to you. She has big eyes, and is blonde and a little shorter than I am.
当你个子矮时保持你腿的视觉线条越长越好是很必要的,这会让你看起来高一点,长一点,甚至更瘦一点。
It is essential when you are short to keep the visual line of your leg as long as possible which will make you look taller, longer and even leaner!
小时候弟弟比我矮,现在却超过我了,看着他一米八二的个子,我真是羡慕极了。
When we were little, my little brother was shorter than me, but he's now surpassed me, and looking at his height at 1.82 m, I'm full of admiration.
吉姆是两个男孩中个子较矮的一个。
他十四岁,个子稍矮,但已经是满脸皱纹,好像是饱经风霜的三十五岁的人。
He was small for his age, being fourteen, but his face was as lined and careworn as a man of thirty-five.
如果说人个子矮,婉转的说法是“高度不够”,如果形容地方小,常会说“空间不足”。
Among people, a euphemism for short ones is "vertically challenged". Among places, it would follow to call tiny ones "spatially challenged.
年纪大了,个子变矮是件很自然的事情。
年纪大了,个子变矮是件很自然的事情。
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