雙語(yǔ)閱讀：愛(ài)素顏，不等于愛(ài)完全不化妝的女人

　　摘要：一項(xiàng)新研究的結(jié)果顯示男人更偏愛(ài)看起來(lái)“自然”的女性，但到底有多“自然”呢?理查德·霍爾特問(wèn)道。

　　A new study has found that most men prefer women to look 'natural'. But how natural exactly? asks Richard Holt.

　　I didn’t realise until quite late in life that some women don’t just wear make-up, they wear a full-on disguise – the sort you might adopt if you were evading capture. At university one of new flatmates came downstairs late one night and I thought we were being burgled.

　　一項(xiàng)新研究的結(jié)果顯示男人更偏愛(ài)看起來(lái)“自然”的女性，但到底有多“自然”呢?理查德·霍爾特問(wèn)道。

　　我直到很晚才意識(shí)到，生活中，有些女人不僅僅是在化妝，而是戴著不折不扣的偽裝——她們用的偽裝很夸張，你甚至可以采用那種妝容來(lái)逃避追捕。大學(xué)時(shí)，我的一位新室友在深夜時(shí)分下樓來(lái)(完全沒(méi)化妝)，而我還以為我家被破門盜竊了。

　　It had been obvious before that she wore a lot of make-up, but I naively hadn’t realised that without it she would look like a completely different person. On a later occasion I overheard her, in unpainted form, opening the door to a guy who knew her quite well and having to overcome his puzzled expression by saying: “John, it’s me!”

　　她一直濃妝重抹，這點(diǎn)很明顯。而我天真地沒(méi)有意識(shí)到，如果不化妝的話，她看起來(lái)完全像是另外一個(gè)人。之后有次，我聽(tīng)到她講話。那時(shí)她沒(méi)有化妝，給一個(gè)和她很熟的人打開(kāi)門，卻不得不因?yàn)閷?duì)方滿臉困惑而解釋道：“約翰，是我啦!”

　　Apparently half of women admit to doing their make-up at least four times a day and a whopping 67 percent only go bare-faced twice a month.

　　顯然有一半女性承認(rèn)她們每天整理妝容至少四次，高達(dá)67%的女性的女性一個(gè)月只素顏兩次。

　　These findings are presented as part of a campaign to give women the confidence to “pare back the amount of make-up they wear” and to let their “own natural radiance shine through”.

　　這些調(diào)查結(jié)果都被認(rèn)為是提升女性信心“減少化妝程度”這一運(yùn)動(dòng)的一部分，并鼓勵(lì)她們“秀出自然美。”

　　The study was carried out by a company called St Ives.

　　這項(xiàng)研究是由一個(gè)名為St Ives的公司開(kāi)展的。

　　In case anyone remains unconvinced, the company has enlisted the help of Lydia Bright, star of a television show called The Only Way Is Essex, to front the campaign.

　　為防止有人依然對(duì)此不信服，該公司還請(qǐng)了莉迪亞·布萊特為這一活動(dòng)開(kāi)場(chǎng)。她可是電視節(jié)目“埃塞克斯是唯一的生活方式”的大明星。

　　Bright, 23, says of her time on TOWIE: “I don’t know whether anyone remembers my first ever appearance, but I was caked in make-up. It looked like I’d applied it with a trowel.”

　　23歲的布萊特，在“埃塞克斯是唯一的生活方式”節(jié)目中講道：“我不知道是否還有人記得我的第一次亮相，但當(dāng)時(shí)我的臉上被化妝品堆疊成蛋糕一樣的?？雌饋?lái)像是我用抹刀砌上去的。

　　I don’t recall her first appearance – or any of them, if I’m honest – but I am prepared to believe her. Not least because we are treated to before-and-after shots showing what she looks like in full warpaint, and then after the damascene moment when she was told she may be overdoing it a touch.

　　老實(shí)講，我不記得她的第一次亮相了——或她的任何亮相。但我打算相信她。尤其是因?yàn)樗臄z前的照片和拍攝后身著盛裝的照片都被展示出來(lái)了，人們都覺(jué)得她化妝有點(diǎn)過(guò)頭了。

　　The only problem is that the “after” shot shows a woman still wearing what appears to be quite a lot of make-up. The “before” shot looks as if she’s trying out as an Alice Cooper lookalike.

　　唯一的問(wèn)題是，后圖展示的是一位看起來(lái)依然濃妝重抹的女子。在前圖中，她看起來(lái)似乎是想嘗試一下愛(ài)麗絲·庫(kù)珀(休克搖滾先驅(qū))的妝容。

　　“No make-up” meaning “less make-up than usual” forms part of the tabloid narrative.

　　“不化妝“實(shí)際上意味著“畫比平時(shí)少的妝” 。

　　So when the campaign says that three-quarters of men prefer the natural look, it is in this context. They don’t actually mean “natural” – ie the face as it really is. They mean tabloid natural. The illusion of natural. The campaign is telling women that cosmetics are a good thing, but that they could be applying them better.

　　所以，當(dāng)調(diào)查顯示四分之三的男人更喜歡素顏時(shí)，就是指在上述情況下。他們并不是真指“素顏”——即臉本來(lái)的樣子，他們是指淡妝素顏(假素顏)。這項(xiàng)活動(dòng)告訴女士們，化妝品是好東西，但她們可以更好地運(yùn)用它。

　　And I think I’m fine with that. I’ve got absolutely no problem with make-up, as long as the person underneath remains vaguely recognisable, and doesn’t look like she’s been painted in the style of a late-1930s Picasso.

　　而我對(duì)此沒(méi)有意見(jiàn)。我對(duì)化妝真的一點(diǎn)看法都沒(méi)有。只要能依稀辨認(rèn)出妝容下的那個(gè)人，并且不要看起來(lái)像是按照20世紀(jì)30年代后期畢加索風(fēng)格畫的就好。

　　“素顏”英語(yǔ)怎么說(shuō)

　　Women put on makeup to make themselves more attractive. But a recent campaign in the UK suggests a bare face may be the best look for women.

　　The online campaign was launched by a charity organization, reported The Telegraph. It asked women to post selfies without wearing makeup. The idea behind it was that by removing their makeup, the women exposed their real selves.

　　The campaign was a huge success, and "no makeup selfie" has since been trending on social media, with men and women alike commenting on how beautiful these bare-faced women look in their photos.

　　女性化妝是為了讓自己看起來(lái)更加迷人。但近日英國(guó)發(fā)起的一項(xiàng)活動(dòng)表明，或許素顏的女性才是最美的。

　　據(jù)英國(guó)《每日電訊報(bào)》報(bào)道，一家慈善組織發(fā)起了一項(xiàng)號(hào)召女性上傳素顏?zhàn)耘恼盏脑诰€活動(dòng)。旨在通過(guò)卸妝，展現(xiàn)出女性真實(shí)的一面。

　　該活動(dòng)獲得了巨大成功，“素顏?zhàn)耘?rdquo;也成為社交網(wǎng)站熱門話題，男女網(wǎng)友對(duì)這些女性的素顏照稱贊有加。

　　【講解】

　　文中的bare face就是“素顏”的意思，其中bare是形容詞，意為“無(wú)遮蓋的”，修飾人時(shí)，指身體的某一部分裸露的，如：bare feet(赤腳)，而bald多指因缺少或沒(méi)有頭發(fā)而“禿頭”，如：He shaved his head bald.(他剃了個(gè)光頭。)

　　最后一段中的comment一般用作不及物動(dòng)詞，后面常接介詞on或upon，表示“就(某人、某事)發(fā)表看法，評(píng)論(某人等)”，如：So far, he has not commented on these reports.(到目前為止，他仍未就這些報(bào)道發(fā)表評(píng)論。)