“老爷车”英文怎么说
在加拿大有一群爱车族，他们钟爱的不是高性能或最新款的汽车，而是富有历史韵味的老爷车。那么老爷车的英文表达是什么呢?
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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.
显然许多在二战后生育高峰期(1945-1952)出生的加拿大人都对老爷车情有独钟，他们年轻时是买不起的这样的车的。
在上面的报道中，vintage car就是“老爷车”。老爷车是人们对现在被珍藏的古老而享有盛名的汽车的称呼。至于有多古老才算老爷车，目前尚无统一、明确的规定，一般认为至少是四五十年前生产的汽车。老爷车应该是在出厂时就拥有优良设计，高工艺标准及制作，十分高档、珍贵，而且现在基本保持原貌，否则只能称为old car(废旧车)。收藏车的人被称为car collector。
Vintage在这里的意思是“古老而有声誉的”、“古式的”、“古色古香的”，如果一个女孩告诉你她要去vintage store买东西，一般指的是复古风格的服装店，那里可能有名人穿过的vintage clothing(古董衫)。
为了环保，现在各国都提倡人们使用green car(新能源汽车)或zero-emission vehicle(零排放车辆)，我国也在逐步淘汰高污染的yellow label car(黄标车)。
幽默感使人长寿
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，世界与你同笑。但据挪威研究人员称，笑的功效甚至不止于此，笑还可以延年益寿。
挪威科技大学医学院的斯文·斯维白克说，有幽默感的成年人比认为生活无趣的人寿命长，这一点在癌症患者身上尤为明显。
斯文对约54000个挪威人进行了长达七年的跟踪调查，他在美国身心研究学会召开的一个会议上公布了这一调查结果。
研究人员先让病人们填写调查问卷，其中包括在现实生活中发现幽默的容易程度以及幽默视角的重要性等问题。
斯维白克说，病人的幽默感越强，他在七年之内活下来的可能性越大。幽默感得分位居前四分之一的病人生存下来的几率比排在后四分之一的病人高35%。
据斯维白克介绍，对一个共有2015名癌症病人的小组的研究表明，幽默感较强的人死亡的几率比没什么幽默感的人低70%左右。