Some patients have had no fewer than four or five operations, large and small, in the space of so many years. It's not that they've become cosmetic surgery junkies. It's just that each operation has been more or less imperfect. In for a penny in for a pound, they've had no recourse but to go back under the knife time after time.
有些患者三、五年內動過大大小小、不下五次的美容手術，倒不是自己「上癮」，而是每次都有多多少少的不完美，一不做二不休，只好一次次忍受挨刀之苦。