英语美文赏析TheUglyTruthaboutBeautyWord格式.docx

1、抵押 The problem is that women generally do not think of their looks in the same way that men do. Most men form an opinion of how they look in seventh grade, and they stick to it for the rest of their lives. Some men form the opinion that are irresistibly handsome and they do not change this opinion e

2、ven when their noses bloat to the size of eggplants and their eyebrows grow together to form what appears to be a giant forehead-dwelling tropical caterpillar.* stick to 粘贴在上,紧跟,坚持忠于信守 irresistibly adv. 不可抵抗地（压制不住地, 无可反驳地） bloat vt. 使肿胀 adj. 肿胀的 n. 膨胀自傲, （家畜）肠道炎 eggplant n. 茄子 eyebrow n.眉毛 dwelling

3、n.住处 caterpillar n.毛虫蝴蝶的幼虫 Most men, I believe, think of themselves as average-looking. Men will think this even if their faces cause heart failure in cattle at a range of 300 yards.* Being average does not bother them; average is fine, for men. This is why men never ask anybody how they look. Their

4、 primary form of beauty care is to shave themselves, which is essentially the same form of beauty care that they give to their lawns. If, at the end of his four-minute daily beauty regimen, a man has managed to wipe most of the shaving cream out of his hair and is not bleeding too badly, he feels th

5、at he has done all he can, so he stops thinking about his appearance and devotes his mind to more critical issues, such as the Super Bowl.* regimen n.养生法生活规则 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 w

6、ords would be: not good enough. No matter how attractive a woman may appear to be to others, when she looks at herself in the mirror, she thinks: woof. She thinks that at any moment a municipal animal-control officer is going to throw a net over her and haul her off to the shelter.* woof wu:f n. 纬线织

7、物 n. ,狗的,低吠声 vi. 狗吠 municipal mju:nisipl adj. 市的,市政的n. 政府证券 haul vt./ n.（用力）拖拉,（用车等）拖运运送 Why do women have such low self-esteem? There are many complex psychological and societal reasons, by which I mean Barbie. Girls grow up playing with a doll proportioned such that, if it were a human, it would b

8、e seven feet tall and weigh 81 pounds, of which 53 pounds would be bosoms. This is a difficult appearance standard to live up to,* especially when you contrast it with the standard set for little boys by their dolls excuse me, by their action figures. Most of the action figures that my son played wi

9、th 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 looker. But he was extremely self-confident. You could not imagine Buzz-Off saying to the other actio

10、n figures: Do you think these wings make my hips look big? esteem isti:m n. 尊敬vt. 认为,尊敬 proportioned adj. 成比例的（相称的） bosom n.胸部乳房,胸怀内心 hideous a.极其丑陋的难看的 hip hip n.臀部髋部 But women grow up thinking they need to look like Barbie, which for most women is impossible, although there is a multibillion-dolla

11、r beauty industry devoted to convincing women that they must try. Sorry, your browser doesnt support Java（tm）. I once saw an Oprah show wherein supermodel Cindy Crawford dispensed make up tips to the studio audience. Cindy had all these middle-aged women applying beauty products to their faces;* she

12、 stressed how important it was to apply them in a certain way, using the tips of their fingers. All the women dutifully did this, even though it was obvious to any sane observer that, no matter how carefully they applied these products, they would never look remotely like Cindy Crawford, who is some

13、 kind of genetic mutation. browser n. 吃嫩叶的动物, 浏览书本的人 dispense vt.分配分发,配（药）发（药）,实施 dutifully dju:tifuli adv. 忠实地, 忠贞地 sane sein a.神志正常的,清醒的明智的 mutation n.突变变异 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 cosmetic

14、s to themselves under the instruction of Brad Pitt, in hopes of looking more like him. Men would realize that this task was pointless and 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 what do you kno

15、w about LAWN CARE, pretty boy?cosmetic a.美容的,装饰性的 n. pl.化妆品 demean v.贬抑降低 bolster vt.支撑 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 shallow as a drop of spit, want women to look that way. To which I ha

16、ve two responses:obsess vt.着迷 1. Hey, just because were idiots, that does not mean you have to be;and idiot n.白痴傻子笨蛋 2. Men dont even notice 97 percent of the beauty efforts you make anyway. Take fingernails.* The average woman spends 5,000 hours per year worrying about her fingernails; I have never

17、 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 upward of four hands. upward of 超过、多于 Anyway, to get back to my original point: If youre a man, and a woman asks you how she looks, youre in

18、 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 and Cindy Crawford. Also,

19、 she suspects that youre not qualified to judge anybodys appearance. This is because you have shaving cream in your hair. 重点词解析 -1. point: moment e.g. At that point, the professor got up and left the office. 0. technique: a special skill or way of doing sth. e.g. They adopt new techniques to produce

20、 special effects in movies. 1. sensitive: easily hurt, upset, or offended by things that people say e.g. Janes very sensitive about her figure. 2. collapse: v. 1. to fall down suddenly e.g. Uncle Teds chair collapsed under his weight. 3. to fail e.g. The business finally collapsed because of heavy d

21、ebts. 4. to fall helpless or unconscious e.g. The man has collapsed: call for the doctor !5. fatal: causing or resulting in death e.g. This piece of news is fatal to his political future. 6. seizure: a sudden attack of an illness e.g. The old man you mentioned yesterday died of a heart seizure. 7. c

22、ome 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 change e.g. John sticks to his view that we should increase the size of the port. 9. irresistibly: that cannot be resisted 10. bl

23、oat: to cause to swell e.g. Overeating will bloat your stomach. 11. giant: extremely big e.g. There is a giant supermarket just outside town. 12. dwell: to live e.g. The two young men are dwelling on an island. 13. tropical: （living） in the tropics e.g. Bananas are tropical fruit. 14. caterpillar: a

24、 type of small long many-legged wormlike creature which feeds on the leaves of plants e.g. In the tropical forests you can encounter all kinds of colorful caterpillars. 15. think of as: consider as e.g. I think of him as one of my friends. 16. at a range of : with a specified distance between one pe

25、rson or thing and another e.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 unemployment. 2. earliest in time or order of development e.g. The country is in the primary stag

26、e of socialism. 18. regimen: a fixed plan of food, exercise, etc., in order to improve ones health e.g. The young woman is following a strict regimen. 19. devote ones mind to sth.: to concentrate all ones mind on sth. e.g. He devotes his mind to the sports program on TV. 20. issue: 1. an important t

27、opic 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 publications e.g. Have you read the July issue of this magazine?21. woof: the barking sound of a dog 22. municipal: relating to a town or its governing body e.g. Th

28、e municipal government offices are located in the center of the town. 23. haul: to pull sth. with effort or force e.g. He hauled his bike out of the shed. 24. shelter: 1. a building or enclosure offering protection e.g. There is a wooden shelter in the public garden. 2. an animal sanctuary 25. self-

29、esteem: the feeling that you are someone who deserves to be liked, respected, and admired e.g. Teachers need to help build up their students sense of self-esteem. 26. psychological: connected with the way that peoples minds work and the way that this affects their behavior e.g. There must be some ps

30、ychological explanation for his bad temper. 27. societal: relating to society e.g. societal change 28. proportion: to adjust sth. so that it has a particular or suitable relationship to sth. else e.g. Allowances for expenditure have been proportioned to your income. 29. live up to: to fulfill expectations e.g. You should live up to your promise. 30. action figure: a doll re