1、The Ugly Truth about BeautyBy Dave BarryIf youre a man, at some HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp1 t rightFrame point a woman will ask you how she looks. How do I look? shell ask. You must be careful how you answer this question. The best HYPERL

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9、貼在上；緊跟；堅(jiān)持，忠于，信守irresistibly adv. 不可抵抗地(壓制不住地, 無(wú)可反駁地)bloat vt. 使腫脹 adj. 腫脹的 n. 膨脹，自傲, (家畜)腸道炎eggplant n. 茄子eyebrow n.眉毛dwelling n.住處caterpillar n.毛蟲(chóng)，蝴蝶的幼蟲(chóng)Most men, I believe, HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp15 t rightFrame think of themselves as

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11、 yards.* Being average does not bother them; average is fine, for men. This is why men never ask anybody how they look. Their HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp17 t rightFrame primary form of beauty care is to shave themselves, which is essential

12、ly the same form of beauty care that they give to their lawns. If, at the end of his four-minute daily beauty HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp18 t rightFrame regimen, a man has managed to wipe most of the shaving cream out of his hair and is no

13、t bleeding too badly, he feels that he has done all he can, so he stops thinking about his appearance and HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp19 t rightFrame devotes his mind to more critical HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/

14、file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp20 t rightFrame issues, such as the Super Bowl.* regimen n.養(yǎng)生法，生活規(guī)則Women do not look at themselves this way. If I had to express, in three words, what I believe most women think about their appearance, those words would be: not good enough. No matter how attractive a

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17、1/lp_A.htm l lp24 t rightFrame shelter.* woof wu:f n. 緯線，織物 n. （狗的）低吠聲 vi. 狗吠municipal mju:nisipl adj. 市的,市政的n. 政府證券haul vt./ n.(用力)拖，拉；(用車等)拖運(yùn)，運(yùn)送Why do women have such low HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp25 t rightFrame self-esteem? There are

18、many complex HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp26 t rightFrame psychological and HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp27 t rightFrame societal reasons, by which I mean Barbie. Girls grow up playi

19、ng with a doll HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp28 t rightFrame proportioned such that, if it were a human, it would be seven feet tall and weigh 81 pounds, of which 53 pounds would be bosoms. This is a difficult appearance standard to HYPERLINK

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21、p30 t rightFrame action figures. Most of the action figures that my son played with when he was little were hideous -looking. For example, he was very fond of an action figure (part of the He-Man series) called Buzz-Off, who was part human, part flying insect. Buzz-Off was not a HYPERLINK :8080/teac

22、her-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp31 t rightFrame looker. But he was extremely self-confident. You could not imagine Buzz-Off saying to the other action figures: Do you think these wings make my hips look big? esteem isti:m n. 尊敬vt. 認(rèn)為,尊敬proportioned adj. 成比例的(相稱的)b

23、osom n.胸部，乳房；胸懷，內(nèi)心hideous a.極其丑陋的，難看的hip hip n.臀部，髖部But women grow up thinking they need to look like Barbie, which for most women is impossible, although there is a multibillion-dollar beauty industry devoted to convincing women that they must try. Sorry, your browser doesnt support Java(tm). I onc

24、e saw an Oprah show HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp32 t rightFrame wherein supermodel Cindy Crawford HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp33 t rightFrame dispensed make up HYPERLINK :8080/teac

25、her-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp34 t rightFrame tips to the studio audience. Cindy had all these middle-aged women applying beauty products to their faces;* she stressed how important it was to apply them in a certain way, using the tips of their fingers. All the

26、women HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp35 t rightFrame dutifully did this, even though it was obvious to any HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp36 t rightFrame sane observer that, no matter ho

27、w carefully they applied these products, they would never look HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp37 t rightFrame remotely like Cindy Crawford, who is some kind of genetic mutation.browser n. 吃嫩葉的動(dòng)物, 瀏覽書(shū)本的人dispense vt.分配，分發(fā)；配(藥)，發(fā)(藥)；實(shí)施dutifully d

28、ju:tifuli adv. 忠實(shí)地, 忠貞地sane sein a.神志正常的；清醒的，明智的mutation n.突變，變異 Im not saying that men are superior. Im just saying that youre not going to get a group of middle-aged men to sit in a room and apply cosmetics to themselves under the instruction of Brad Pitt, in hopes of looking more like him. Men wo

29、uld realize that this task was pointless and HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp38 t rightFrame demeaning. They would find some way to bolster their self-esteem that did not require looking like Brad Pitt. They would say to Brad: Oh YEAH? Well wha

30、t do you know about LAWN CARE, pretty boy?cosmetic a.美容的；裝飾性的 n. pl.化妝品demean v.貶抑，降低bolster vt.支撐lawn n.草地，草坪Of course many women will argue that the reason they become obsessed with trying to look like Cindy Crawford is that men, being as HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/fil

31、e227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp39 t rightFrame shallow as a drop of spit, want women to look that way. To which I have two responses: obsess vt.著迷1. Hey, just because were idiots, that does not mean you have to be; and idiot n.白癡，傻子，笨蛋2. Men dont even notice 97 percent of the beauty efforts you make a

32、nyway. Take fingernails.* The average woman spends 5,000 hours per year worrying about her fingernails; I have never once, in more than 40 years of listening to men talk about women, heard a man say, She has a nice set of fingernails! Many men would not notice if a woman had HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-

33、platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp40 t rightFrame upward of four hands. upward of 超過(guò)、多于Anyway, to get back to my HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp41 t rightFrame original point: If youre a man, and a woman asks you

34、how she looks, youre in big trouble. Obviously, you cant say she looks bad. But you also cant say that she looks great, because shell think youre lying, because she has spent countless hours, with the help of the multibillion-dollar beauty industry, obsessing about the differences between herself an

35、d Cindy Crawford. Also, she HYPERLINK :8080/teacher-platform-java/filePreview/book2/file227/0310047611/lp_A.htm l lp42 t rightFrame suspects that youre not qualified to judge anybodys appearance. This is because you have shaving cream in your hair. 重點(diǎn)詞解析-1. point: momente.g. At that point, the profe

36、ssor got up and left the office.0. technique: a special skill or way of doing sth.e.g. They adopt new techniques to produce special effects in movies.1. sensitive: easily hurt, upset, or offended by things that people saye.g. Janes very sensitive about her figure.2. collapse: v. 1. to fall down sudd

37、enlye.g. Uncle Teds chair collapsed under his weight.3. to faile.g. The business finally collapsed because of heavy debts.4. to fall helpless or unconsciouse.g. The man has collapsed: call for the doctor ! 5. fatal: causing or resulting in deathe.g. This piece of news is fatal to his political futur

38、e.6. seizure: a sudden attack of an illnesse.g. The old man you mentioned yesterday died of a heart seizure.7. come up with: to produce; to think of (a plan, an answer, a reply, etc.)e.g. When I asked him why he was late he couldnt come up with an answer.8. stick to: to refuse to changee.g. John sti

39、cks to his view that we should increase the size of the port.9. irresistibly: that cannot be resisted10. bloat: to cause to swelle.g. Overeating will bloat your stomach.11. giant: extremely bige.g. There is a giant supermarket just outside town.12. dwell: to live e.g. The two young men are dwelling

40、on an island.13. tropical: (living) in the tropics e.g. Bananas are tropical fruit.14. caterpillar: a type of small long many-legged wormlike creature which feeds on the leaves of plantse.g. In the tropical forests you can encounter all kinds of colorful caterpillars.15. think of as: consider as e.g

41、. I think of him as one of my friends.16. at a range of : with a specified distance between one person or thing and anothere.g. A bat can detect a moth at a range of less than 8 feet.17. primary: 1. of chief importance; principal e.g. The governments primary aim is to see significant reductions in u

42、nemployment.2. earliest in time or order of developmente.g. The country is in the primary stage of socialism.18. regimen: a fixed plan of food, exercise, etc., in order to improve ones healthe.g. The young woman is following a strict regimen.19. devote ones mind to sth.: to concentrate all ones mind

43、 on sth.e.g. He devotes his mind to the sports program on TV.20. issue: 1. an important topic or problem for discussion e.g. The issue of global warming is becoming more and more serious today.2. each of a regular series of publicationse.g. Have you read the July issue of this magazine?21. woof: the

44、 barking sound of a dog22. municipal: relating to a town or its governing bodye.g. The municipal government offices are located in the center of the town.23. haul: to pull sth. with effort or forcee.g. He hauled his bike out of the shed.24. shelter: 1. a building or enclosure offering protectione.g.

45、 There is a wooden shelter in the public garden.2. an animal sanctuary25. self-esteem: the feeling that you are someone who deserves to be liked, respected, and admirede.g. Teachers need to help build up their students sense of self-esteem.26. psychological: connected with the way that peoples minds

46、 work and the way that this affects their behavior e.g. There must be some psychological explanation for his bad temper.27. societal: relating to society e.g. societal change28. proportion: to adjust sth. so that it has a particular or suitable relationship to sth. elsee.g. Allowances for expenditur

47、e have been proportioned to your income.29. live up to: to fulfill expectationse.g. You should live up to your promise.30. action figure: a doll representing a person or fictional character known for vigorous action, such as a soldier or superhero31. looker: a very attractive person, especially a wo

48、mane.g. What a looker she is !32. wherein: (relative adverb) in whiche.g. The clay ovens wherein some farm wives still bake bread are very strange.33. dispense: to give sth. to peoplee.g. Villagers dispensed tea to people involved in the accident.34. tip: a helpful piece of advice e.g. Steve gives u

49、s some helpful tips on how to take good pictures.35. dutifully: obedientlye.g. The girl dutifully wrote down all the sentences.36. sane: able to think in a normal and reasonable waye.g. No sane person would do that silly thing.37. remotely: to a very small degreee.g. Cindy isnt remotely interested i

50、n what youre saying.38. demeaning: causing a severe loss in the dignity of and respect for someonee.g. Cleaning the toilets is the most demeaning task at the camp.39. shallow: not deep; not far from top to bottome.g. Do you think you can learn to swim in such a shallow river?40. upward of: (also) up

51、wards of: more thane.g. The old couple raised upward of 20 cats at home.41. original: 1. firste.g. He is said to be the original owner of the house.2. completely new and different from anything that anyone has thought of beforee.g. What an original idea!42. suspect: v. to think that sth. is probably

52、 true or likelye.g. Sue strongly suspected her husband had been lying.n. someone who is thought to be guilty of a crimee.g. Two suspects have been arrested today in connection with the robbery. 文本翻譯：美麗的丑陋實(shí)質(zhì)如果你是位男士，某個(gè)時(shí)刻某位女士就會(huì)問(wèn)你她長(zhǎng)得怎么樣?！拔议L(zhǎng)得如何？”她問(wèn)道。對(duì)這問(wèn)題該如何作答，你得慎重。最好的辦法是先有個(gè)誠(chéng)實(shí)而隱秘的看法，然后突然急病發(fā)作癱倒在地。相信我，這是最簡(jiǎn)單

53、的脫身之道。因?yàn)槟阌肋h(yuǎn)找不到恰如其分的回答。之所以得這樣，是因?yàn)橐话阏f(shuō)來(lái)女士與男士對(duì)自己相貌的看法大相徑庭。多數(shù)男士在小學(xué)七年級(jí)時(shí)對(duì)自己的長(zhǎng)相已有了一定之見(jiàn)，并在今后一生中持之不渝。有些男士認(rèn)為自己帥呆了，即使后來(lái)長(zhǎng)得鼻子膨隆，像只茄子，雙眉相接，像條熱帶大毛蟲(chóng)寄生在額頭上，也不改初衷。我以為，多數(shù)男士認(rèn)為自己長(zhǎng)相一般。即便其相貌可使三百碼開(kāi)外的牛群突發(fā)心臟病，他們也還是固執(zhí)己見(jiàn)。相貌平平并不使他們發(fā)愁，長(zhǎng)得普普通通很好啊，男士們覺(jué)得。這就是為什么男士們從不問(wèn)人自己長(zhǎng)得怎么樣的原因。男士主要的美容護(hù)理形式是給自己修修面，這和他們修剪草坪美化環(huán)境時(shí)的做法基本無(wú)異。如果在每天四分鐘的美容護(hù)理后，他

54、好歹能擦干凈修面膏，臉上也不過(guò)分流血的話，他就認(rèn)為自己已盡了責(zé)，因此也就不再去操心他的外表，而把心思用于更為重要的問(wèn)題，比如說(shuō)全美橄欖球超級(jí)杯賽。女士們可不這樣看自己。在我看來(lái)，多數(shù)女士對(duì)自己相貌的想法，如果不得不只用三個(gè)字來(lái)表述的話，那就是“不夠好”。不管她在別人眼里是多么嫵媚，當(dāng)她看著鏡子中的自己時(shí)，她想到的是“哇呀”。她想到的是市政府動(dòng)物管理官員隨時(shí)會(huì)跑來(lái)向她投下大網(wǎng)，把她拖走，關(guān)進(jìn)無(wú)主動(dòng)物收容所。女性為何如此自信心不足呢？這有其復(fù)雜的心理和社會(huì)原因，我這兒指的是巴比娃娃。女孩們玩著這樣一個(gè)玩偶長(zhǎng)大，如果把它按比例變成真人的話，這玩偶足有7英尺高，81磅重，其中53磅是胸部。這樣一種外貌

55、標(biāo)準(zhǔn)可很難達(dá)到，若是拿這個(gè)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)與男孩子們的玩偶對(duì)不起，是與他們的超級(jí)宇宙戰(zhàn)士玩具標(biāo)準(zhǔn)相對(duì)照時(shí)，尤為如此。我兒子小時(shí)候玩的超級(jí)宇宙戰(zhàn)士玩具大多數(shù)相貌丑陋。例如，他很喜歡一種叫Buzz-off的半人半會(huì)飛的昆蟲(chóng)的超級(jí)宇宙戰(zhàn)士（屬于希曼系列）。Buzz-off不是美男子，但他非常自信。你不可能想象Buzz-off會(huì)對(duì)另外的超級(jí)宇宙戰(zhàn)士說(shuō)：你們說(shuō)我這些翅膀是不是讓我的臀部顯得突出了些？然而女性自幼認(rèn)為自己必須長(zhǎng)得與巴比娃娃一樣，這對(duì)多數(shù)女性而言是不可能的，盡管價(jià)值數(shù)十億美元的美容行業(yè)竭力勸她們必須試上一試。我曾看過(guò)一個(gè)由奧普臘主持的娛樂(lè)節(jié)目，其中超級(jí)模特辛迪克勞福特向演播室的聽(tīng)眾傳授了不少化妝方面的訣

56、竅。辛迪讓所有在場(chǎng)的中年女性往臉上抹化妝品；她強(qiáng)調(diào)涂抹的方式有多么重要，要用指尖來(lái)涂。在場(chǎng)的所有婦女都盡心盡力地照樣做了，但就任何一個(gè)神志正常的旁觀者看來(lái)，顯而易見(jiàn)，不管她們?cè)谕磕ɑ瘖y品時(shí)有多么小心仔細(xì)，她們也永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法變得與辛迪克勞福特稍稍相似，辛迪是某種基因突變的產(chǎn)物。我并不是在鼓吹男士?jī)?yōu)越，我只是說(shuō)你不可能讓一幫中年男子坐在房間里，按布萊德皮特的指導(dǎo)給自己涂抹化妝品，希望把自己弄得更像他一些。男士會(huì)意識(shí)到這種做法毫無(wú)意義且有失身份。他們會(huì)找到別的支撐自己自尊的方法而必要求自己長(zhǎng)得像布萊德皮特。他們會(huì)對(duì)布萊德說(shuō)：“哦，怎么著？那么你懂得草坪護(hù)理嗎，帥小子？”當(dāng)然，會(huì)有不少女性爭(zhēng)辯說(shuō)，她們之所

57、以如此癡迷，想讓自己相貌象辛迪克勞福特，全因?yàn)槟腥?，淺薄得像口唾沫的男人要女人們這樣的。對(duì)這一點(diǎn)我有兩個(gè)回答：1、 嗨！就算我們是愚蠢，那也不等于你們就非得一樣不可；還有 2、 不管怎么說(shuō)，男士們對(duì)你們作出的美容努力的百分之九十七根本連注意都沒(méi)注意到。就拿你們的手指甲來(lái)說(shuō)吧。平均每個(gè)女性每年要花上5千小時(shí)為手指甲操心；可在我40多年聽(tīng)男士們談?wù)撆缘臍v史中，我從未聽(tīng)過(guò)任何一位男士說(shuō)；“她有一副漂亮的指甲！” 哪怕某位女子有四只手，也會(huì)有許多男士根本就注意不到。無(wú)論如何，請(qǐng)回到我的原來(lái)的論點(diǎn)：假如你是位男士，有女士問(wèn)你她長(zhǎng)相如何，你就有麻煩了。顯然你不能說(shuō)她長(zhǎng)得丑。但你也不能說(shuō)她長(zhǎng)得美極了，因?yàn)?/p>

58、她會(huì)認(rèn)為你在撒謊，因?yàn)樗谟袛?shù)十億美元產(chǎn)值的美容業(yè)的幫助下，已花了無(wú)數(shù)個(gè)小時(shí)鉆研自己與辛迪克勞福特間的差異。另外，她懷疑你根本不配評(píng)價(jià)別人的相貌。這么說(shuō)是因?yàn)槟泐^發(fā)上還沾著剃須膏呢。關(guān)于作者：About the author: Dave BarryDave Barry is a syndicated humor columnist in the U. S. who works for both the Miami herald newspaper and Tropic Magazine (a Miami-area local magazine). His Pulitzer Prize-winn

59、ing articles appear in hundreds of newspapers every week. He is invariably finding a way to make millions of people laugh every day. The New York Times has pronounced him “ the funniest man in America”.長(zhǎng)難句解析：The best technique is to form an honest yet sensitive opinion, then collapse on the floor with some kind of fatal seizure. The best way is to base your opinion on the truth but keep it to yoursel