About a hundred years ago a few fable efforts were made on behalf of the left-handers

大约一百年前，有人曾为左撇子们做过一些微不足道的努力。

’We just deal with a world designed for right-handers . ’

“我们应对的是为右撇子设计的世界。”

In general, said Dr. Geschwind, left-handers have less asymmetric brains, with more even distribution over the two hemispheres.

Geschwind博士指出，总的来说，左手使用者有更为对称的大脑，有的几乎左右脑均匀分布。

But we hook-writers are only the worst of a whole cohort of underperforming left-handers .

但我们这些钩着写字的人只是所有表现不佳的左撇子群体中最糟糕的一员。

Worse, it is perfectly legal for employers to discriminate against left-handers .

更糟糕的是，雇主歧视左撇子完全合法。

They say the difference in the way left and right-handed leaders gesture could also explain the unlikely number of left-handers in office.

惯用左手和惯用右手的领袖在手势习惯方面的差别还能解释为什么现任的很多领袖都是“左撇子”。

The US National Bureau of Economic Research has found that left-handers earn more than right-handers.

美国国家经济研究局（USNationalBureauofEconomicResearch）还发现，左撇子比右撇子收入高。

Yet employers can refuse to hire left-handers with impunity.

然而，雇主可以拒绝雇用左撇子而不会受到惩罚。

Left-handers , however, were exempt from these requirements.

然而左撇子不受这些要求的限制。

If that is true, and as the law is silent on discrimination on grounds of hand preference, should employers try to hire more left-handers ?

如果情况确实如此，而且法律没有禁止对用手偏好的歧视，那么雇主是否应该尝试雇佣更多的左撇子？

He asked 286 students, 40 of whom were left-handers , to make judgements about cartoon characters called Fribbles.

他让286个学生，其中40个是左撇子评判一个叫Fribbles的卡通人物。

She was beaten in the tennis match for she was not accustomed to playing with the left-handers .

他网球比赛输了，因为他不习惯与左撇子打球。

Right-handers live, on average, nine years longer than lefties.

用右手的人平均寿命比左撇子要长大约9年。

Left-handers enjoy an advantage in some sports, such as tennis.

在有些运动项目上，左撇子享有优势，例如网球运动。

Nor does it improve as left-handers get older.

左撇子长大后，情况也不会改善。

Left-handers have right-brain more active than left-brain.

左撇子的右脑比左脑发达。

The percentage of left-handers in the population seems to be relatively constant, at 10 percent.

左手使用者在人群中的比例似乎保持不变——10%左右。