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Nothing says “overeducated egghead” like a pair of coke-bottle glasses.
没有人曾经说过啃死书的呆子戴着一副可乐瓶底似的眼镜。
But even cliches sometimes hit the nerd on the head.
但是甚至陈词滥调有时候也会无端说中。
Because a new study finds that nearsightedness is linked to the number of years spent in school.
因为一项研究发现近视眼和在学校上学的时间有关。
The findings can be viewed in the journal Ophthalmology.
这一发现已经在《眼科学》杂志上发表。
In the past century, the prevalence of myopia—science-speak for being able to see only what's right in front of you—has been on the rise.
在过去的一个世纪中，近视眼一直呈现上升趋势，这都是拜科学所赐让你看清楚眼前。
So much so that it can't all be blamed on geeky genes.
近视眼的增长如此多以致于都不用怪罪于基因遗传。
To nail down the potential environmental influences, researchers focused on the classroom.
为了明确可能存在的环境影响，研究人员将研究重点放在了教室这个特殊场所上。
They gave eye exams to nearly 5000 German subjects in a project called the Gutenberg Health Study.
在这个名为古腾伯格的项目中，他们为对近5000名学生做了眼科检查。
The researchers found that individuals with 13 years of education were more myopic than those who didn't get past primary school.
研究人员发现，那些经历过13年书本洗礼学生的近视率比那些小学毕业还没毕业的人要高很多。
And more than half of those with a university degree could use a set of specs, compared to less than a quarter of the folks who quit after high school or secondary school.
而在拥有大学学历的人中，一半以上戴着眼镜，而相比之下高中或者初中后就退学的人戴眼镜却更少。
All that learning takes a lot of reading.
所有的学习都需要大量的阅读。
Which itself is associated with nearsightedness.
这就会跟近视联系起来。
Or the nearsighted may gravitate toward pursuits easier to see—like hitting the books.
或者近视眼的人在啃书本时，可能会想看的更清楚而选择离书更近。
Either way, seems that being a good student may not require great pupils.
不管怎样，似乎做一个好学生并不需要大大的瞳孔。
