Question

英语文章翻译

Americans smoke six thousand million cigarettes every year. It has been calculated that 51% of

American men smoke while 34% of American women do so.
Since 1930, scientific studies have shown time and again that smoking does great harm to one’

s health and that it will shorten one’s life.
Cigarette smoking is believed by most researchers in this field to be an a important cause in

the development lung cancer and throat cancer and is believed to have much to do with some other

kinds of cancers. Cigarette smokers suffer from the illness of the heart more often than those who

don’t smoke. But strange yet true, women are thought to be less affected, because when women

smoke, they usually don’t breathe in the smoke so deeply. Most of the doctors and researchers who

have done such experiments say, “Give up smoking. If you don’t smoke—don’t start!”
Filters are required now to make smoking a bit safer, but they can only reduce its poison,

but not get rid of it.
Of course, there are still a number of doctors and researchers who are less sure of the effect

of cigarette smoking on health. They believe that cancers of the lungs, the throat and so on may

also be caused by atmospheric pollution, or chemical poison that is now being used by farmers in

large quantities to destroy plant pests and small animals.

Answer 1

美国人每年抽烟 60 亿支。据估计，美国有 51％的男性吸烟，而女性吸烟的比例则为 34％。
1939 年以来，为了确定抽烟是否有害健康进行了大量的科学研究。证据所显示的趋势是一贯的，并表明对人体的健康有严重的危险。
许多研究小组进行的研究不容臵疑地表明，吸食烟草，特别 是吸卷烟与预期寿命缩短有关。这方面的研究人员大都相信吸卷烟是产生肺癌、喉癌的重要因素，还认为膀胱癌、口腔癌也 与此有关。男性吸烟者的心脏病死亡率比不吸烟的高。但奇怪的是女性吸烟者受影响小一些，因为她们在吸烟的时候不那么用力。大多数医生和研究人员认为，上述那些关系已得到令人满意的证实，并且告诫说： “戒烟吧，如果你不会抽—那可不要学!”
一些广泛销售的吸烟滤嘴仅仅可以降低吸烟产生的危害，但并不意味着危险可以完全消除。
有些精通业务的医生和研究人员—虽然这些人不多，并且人数在进一步减少—不那么肯定吸 卷烟对人体健康有影响。 他们认为呼吸系统疾病和各种癌症的增多也许可以说是由于人类复杂环境中另外一些因素，即：空气的污染、人们精神压力的增大、经过加工的食品中的化学物质、或化学杀虫 药引起的。农民现在大量使用这些农药杀死昆虫和小动物。