Cigarette smoking and other uses of tobacco shave an average of 2.2 years off lifespans globally. But merely breathing—if the air is polluted—is more damaging to human health.
吸烟或将烟草用作他途能使全球平均寿命缩短2.2年，但呼吸受污染的空气会对人体健康造成更大损害。
Takeovers are a huge part of the tech business, and they’re not always hostile. In fact, many young entrepreneurs build niche companies hoping to be acquired. And for the giants of tech, mergers and acquisitions are a critical growth strategy.
The 19th Asian Games is just around the corner. Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province, as the host city, is displaying the profound Chinese history through the jade culture with a modern touch.
第 19 届亚运会召开在即。位于中国东部的浙江省杭州市作为东道主城市，正通过具有现代气息的玉文化展示博大精深的中国历史。
About one in six Americans are now age 65 or older and, as the average population ages, a majority are reaching the age of retirement in a precarious financial position, as costs of personal care continue to rise.
解析：age在此处为动词形式，表示“to become older”（变老）。
目前，65岁及以上的美国人占总人口的六分之一左右，随着人口平均年龄的增长，大多数人到了退休年纪，经济状况岌岌可危，因为个人护理费用在不断上涨。
It’s no secret young South Koreans are increasingly shunning marriage and parenthood – the country’s steeply falling birth rate is clear evidence of that.
韩国年轻人日益回避结婚生子问题，早已不足为奇，韩国出生率的急剧下降最能直接证明这一点。
Over the past few years, multiple new terms related to AI have emerged – "alignment", "large language models", "hallucination" or "prompt engineering", to name a few.
在过去的几年里，出现了多个与人工智能相关的新术语——“AI对齐”、“大语言模型”、“AI幻觉”或“AI即时工程”等等。
To help you stay up to speed, We have compiled some words you need to know to understand how AI is shaping our world.
You know a Christopher Nolan protagonist when you see him. He is a man caught in a trap of his own intricate construction, lost in the maelstrom of a guilty obsession. He may not wear that obsession on his skin like Leonard Shelby, the amnesia-stricken avenger in “Memento,” or parade his demons in as symbolic a fashion as Bruce Wayne does in the “Dark Knight” trilogy. But whether he skulks about in film-noir shadows or blasts forth into dimensions unknown, every Nolan antihero risks becoming the architect of his own obliteration, a cruel fate that may well consume others in its wake.
Nearly a third of Americans - over 113 million people - are under some form of heat advisory, the US National Weather Service said. Across the US, temperatures are shattering decades-long record highs.
美国国家气象局表示，美国有近三分之一的人（超过 1.13 亿人）正面临某种形式的高温警告。美国各地的气温正在打破数十年来的历史新高。
