【正文】 find a good job after beautifying your face. Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the “correction” or “restoration” of form and function. The best known form of plastic surgery is cosmetic or aesthetic surgery. 整容 . Some movie stars suffer from the failure of plastic surgery. 有些電影明星由于整容失敗而倍感痛苦 。 Meaning: After the economic crisis happened, more and more people came to Dr. Mary Lee Peters’ shop to have a plastic surgery. Note: hit here means attack。 practice refers to the exercise or pursuit of a profession or occupation, especially law or medicine. It may also refer to the business of a professional person. . My sister is a dentist and wants her daughter to take over her practice after she retires. 我妹妹是個牙醫(yī) ， 她希望將來退休后她女兒能接手她的診所 。 A severance package is pay and benefits an employee receives when he or she leaves employment at a pany. 解雇補償 . One of our consultancy services is to help you negotiate your severance package before taking a new job. 我們咨詢服務之一就是在你開始一份新工作之前 ， 就幫你談好離職補償 。 smarting: the present participle of the verb “smart”, meaning “hurting with a stinging pain” 刺痛 ， 難過 . The farmers were burning straws and our eyes smarted with the smoke. 農民們在燒秸稈 ， 我們的眼睛熏得生疼 。 on (one?s) hand: very close to sb. and ready for use when needed 手頭 ， 手邊 . If you need more people, I still have three engineers on hand. 如果你還需要人手 ， 我手上還有三個工程師 。 Meaning: Peters went towork every day to conductplastic surgery on those peopleso that they may look smarter at job interviews. Note: fresh in this sentence means “pleasant, bright, and clean” 漂亮的 ， 整齊的 . My boss looks very fresh in her new dress. 老板今天穿了新裙子 ， 看上去很精神 。 Meaning: That meant peoplewho are more careful abouttheir bodies would only need a couple of injections (注射 ) toslim their faces or fill somematerials into parts of their bodies so as to heighten them. Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA 肉毒桿菌素 ), also called botulinum (肉毒桿菌 ) toxin type A, is made from the bacteria that causes botulism. Botulinum toxin blocks nerve activity in the muscles, causing a temporary reduction in muscle activity. It is a prescription medicine that is injected into muscles and used to temporarily improve the look, and also used totemporarily lessen the appearance of facial wrinkles. fillers: Facial fillers and injectables (血管注射劑 ) can reduce a variety of signs of facial aging, including fine lines, wrinkles, folds, sunken cheeks and a sallow (蠟黃色的 ) plexion. Facial injectables cannot repair sagging (下垂的 ) skin along the jaw, neck, chin or brow. For these concerns, more invasive (侵入體內的 ) procedures such as facelift, neck lift or brow lift may be required. conservative: a. not liking changes or new ideas 保守的 . The headmaster is rather conservative to the educational reform. 校長對教育改革的態(tài)度相當保守。 Meaning: … ask the doctors to operate on their eyes or faces so as to beautify them. Note: have sth. done means “ to ask sb. to do sth.” for example, to have my hair cut (理發(fā) )， to have the radio repaired (讓人修好了收音機 ). Translation 自經濟蕭條發(fā)生以來，瑪麗 李 皮特斯醫(yī)生整容診所的生意倒一天天好了起來。 經濟衰退給她在西雅圖的診所帶來了新的病人 ——就是那些領了遣散費，對失業(yè)仍然倍感痛苦而且手上有大把時間的人們。有幾個人把這錢花在了整容上，皮特斯說，她的工作就是把他們整得更好看些，好去面試。 對比較保守的病人來說，那也就是打個瘦臉針，或注射點填充物什么的，但是“大多數(shù)情況下，他們是來做眼部或臉部手術的?！彼f。 10 1. Why did many people e to Peters’ office for a plastic surgery? Hunting for a Job? Don’t Expect Plastic Surgery to Help Back Next 上海交通大 學 出版社 Because they lost their jobs in the recession and wanted to look “fresher” when searching for new jobs. 11 Hunting for a Job? Don’t Expect Plastic Surgery to Help Back Next 上海交通大 學 出版社 “People would use their money from being laid off, their severance pay … to get cosmetic surgery so they could look better for their next job interview,” Peters recalled in an interview with The Fiscal Times. “You?d be amazed at how often I?d see that. You would think that people would be scampering away from something like this.” With a growing number of baby boomers postponing retirement, venturing back into the job market, or striving to retain their standing at work, more and more seniors are turning to cosmetic enhancements to gain a petitive edge. The number of cosmetic procedures including surgery and minimally invasive procedures topped million in 2022。 people aged 55 and over made up an increasing number of the patient share, according to a February study by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Note: lay off sb. means “to stop employing someone because there is no work for them to do” 解雇 。 when followed with sth. (doing sth.), it means “stop using or doing sth.” 停止工作； it can also be converted into a noun, in the form of layoff 停工 ， 解雇 ， 停止活動 . Even many excellent engineers were laid off due to the financial crisis. 由于金融危機 ， 甚至很多優(yōu)秀的工程師都被解雇了 。 The doctor suggested him laying off smoking. 醫(yī)生建議他不要抽煙了 。 When asked to explain your layoff, be honest and downright. 如面試官要求你解釋被解雇的原因 ， 要誠實坦率 。 Meaning: People would spend the pensation they got from unemployment… The Fiscal Times: an Englishlanguage digital news, news analysis and opinion publication based in New York City and Washington, . and founded in 2022 財政時報 scamper: vt. to run withquick short steps, like a child or small animal 驚惶奔跑 ，蹦蹦跳跳地跑 . The deer got startled at the gun shot and scampered in all directions. 鹿群受到了槍聲的驚嚇 ， 四散逃開 。 Meaning: People would run away quickly from something like plastic surgery. venture: vi. to say or do something in an uncertain way because you are afraid it is wrong or will seem stupid 冒險行事 . I ventured that he might have been laid off. 我斗膽地猜一下 ，