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How come women always seem colder than men?

女人為什么總比男人感覺更怕冷？

The fairer sex has a higher percentage of body fat and conserves more heat around the core. That helps keep vital organs nice and toasty but not the extremities—and when your hands and feet feel cold, so does the rest of your body.

女人體內有更高的身體脂肪比例，也會在體內儲存更多的熱量，這能保持核心器官的運轉，但不包括四肢。如果你的手腳感覺冰冷，身體的其他部位也是如此。

Plus, research suggests that women have a lower threshold for cold than men.

另外，調查顯示女人寒冷的臨界值比男人低。

When exposed to the same freezing temperature, the blood vessels in women's fingers constrict more than men's do, which is why they turn white more quickly.

在相同溫度的嚴寒環境之下，女人手指血管的收縮度比男人要大，所以它們會迅速變白。

【知識點】

core 核心

vital 至關重要的

toasty 暖和舒適的

extremity 手足(譯文中的四肢)

threshold 臨界值

expose to 暴漏于

vessel 血管

constrict 收縮