Anyone who has walked past a nail salon is familiar with the noxious odors that emanate from acrylic nails, polishes and removers.

　　任何一个走过美甲沙龙的人都对丙烯酸指甲(水晶指甲)、指甲油和除甲油散发出的有害气味很熟悉。

　　Customers getting manicures and pedicures endure the smell temporarily, but manicurists who inhale these evaporating chemicals for hours expose themselves to health risks.

　　顾客在做美甲和足疗的时候，需暂时忍受这种气味，但如果美甲师吸入这些挥发性化学物质长达数小时，他们就会面临健康风险。

　　The smells come from volatile organic compounds, or VOCs – compounds that easily become vapors or gases.

　　这些气味来自挥发性有机化合物(又称为VOCs)，而这些化合物很容易变成蒸汽或气体。

　　These substances have been linked to health problems ranging from headaches and respiratory irritation to reproductive complications and cancer.

　　这些物质与头痛、呼吸系统不适、生殖系统并发症和癌症等健康问题有关。

　　In a normal room-temperature environment, VOCs evaporate and humans breathe them in.

　　在普通的室温环境下，挥发性有机化合物挥发而被人们吸入体内。

　　Our research team, along with colleagues at Colorado State University, recently investigated chemical exposures in six Colorado nail salons and found that employees spent their days exposed to high levels of VOCs.

　　我们的研究团队和科罗拉多州立大学的同事最近调查了科罗拉多六家美甲沙龙的员工接触这些化学物质的情况，他们发现美甲沙龙的员工每天都暴露在充满高浓度的挥发性有机化合物的环境中。

　　Participating technicians, who had worked in salons for up to 19 years, reported suffering headaches and skin and eye irritation.

　　参与实验的技师在美甲沙龙工作了19年之久，报告指出，他们有头痛、皮肤发炎和眼睛不适等症状。

　　We measured levels of benzene and formaldehyde in the salons, and determined that exposure to these known human carcinogens was increasing the workers' lifetime cancer risks above one in one million – the level that many US agencies consider acceptable in regulating exposure to harmful substances.

　　我们测量了美甲沙龙中苯和甲醛的含量，确定接触这些已知的人类致癌物会使这里的员工罹患癌症的风险增加百万分之一以上，而这是许多美国机构认为可以接受的有害物质接触标准。

　　A 2015 New York Times exposé highlighted underpayment and poor working conditions in New York nail salons. However, it failed to address chemical exposures that salon workers experience daily.

　　2015年《纽约时报》曝光了纽约美甲沙龙的低薪和恶劣的工作条件。然而，它未能解决美甲沙龙员工每天接触化学物质的问题。

　　Several research groups have sought to characterize and quantify VOC exposures in the nail salon environment, using standard measurement techniques and self-reported health surveys.

　　几个研究小组试图利用标准测量技术和自述的健康调查来描述和量化在美甲沙龙的环境中接触挥发性有机化合物的问题。