和美女一起讨论外表问题时，我们的对自己的外表是否满意呢？想要了解请看下文。
[10] That drawing of attention to one’s appearance is bad news. Research has demonstrated that one of the reasons even brief exposure to all those Photoshopped media images of women makes women feel so awful is because these types of images activate appearance schemas. In other words, they heighten our awareness of and attention to information that’s focused on appearance—our own and others’. A study of elementary school girls in Australia found a similar effect for appearance-focused conversations with peers. Girls who frequently talked about appearance with their friends seemed to feel worse about their bodies because those conversations increased the time they spent thinking about how they looked. Women don’t need anything else from this culture reminding us that we should be thinking about how we look. We get enough reminders already.
单词注解
exposure to曝光；受到；显露
activate ['æktɪveɪt] v 刺激；使活动；使活泼；使产生放射性
schema /ˈskiːmə/ n 概要，[心理] 模式
长难句分析及语法
Girls who frequently talked about appearance with their friends seemed to feel worse about their bodies because those conversations increased the time they spent thinking about how they looked.
第一句话的主句是：girls seemed to feel worse about their bobies
who 引导定语从句，指代前面的girls
because引导后面的从句，主句是those conversations increased the time
。在time和they之间省略了一个that做spent的宾语
how引导的是宾语从句做about的宾语。
定语从句
1）who,whom,that,这些词代替的先行词是人的名词或代词。who和that在从句中做主语，whom和that在从句中做宾语，做宾语时可以省略
2）whose用来指人或物（只做定语，若指物，它可以同of which互换）
Please pass me the book whose(of which)cover is green.请递给我那本绿皮的书。
3）which，that所代替的先行词是事物的名词或代词，在从句中可作主语，宾语等
4）when，where，why的含义相当于“介词+which”，在定语从句中作状语。
5)that代替关系副词可以表示时间，地点，方式，理由的名词
His father died the year（that/when/in which）she was born.
spend,take,cost,pay的区别
spend的主语必须是人
（1）spend time/money on sth.在.....上花费时间（金钱）
I spent two hours on this problem.这个问题花了我两个小时。
（2）spend time/money (in)doing sth 花费时间（金钱）做某事
（3）spend money for sth 花钱买.....
cost的主语是物或某种活动，还可以表示“值”
（1）sth costs (sb)+金钱 某物花了（某人）多少钱
A new computer costs a lot of money.
（2）(doing)sth costs (sb)+时间 做某事花了（某人）多少时间
Remembering these new words cost him a lot of time
cost 的过去式及过去分词都是cost，且不能用于被动语态。
take后面常跟双宾语
（1）It takes(took)sb +时间+to do sth .做某事花了某人多少时间。
It took them three years to build this road.
（2）doing sth takes sb +时间 . 做某事花了某人多少时间
Repairing this car took him the whole afternoon.
pay的基本用法
（1）pay (sb)money for sth.付钱（给某人）买.....
I have to pay 20 yuan for this room each month.
（2）pay for sth 付.....的钱
I have to pay for the book lost
（3）pay for sb 替某人付钱
（4）pay sb 付钱给某人
（5）pay money back还钱
（6）pay off one's money还清钱
翻译
把注意力吸引到一个人的外表上是坏消息。研究表明，短暂地暴露在PS过的女性媒体照片让女性感觉糟糕的原因是此类型的照片激活外观模式。换句话说，他们提高了我们对信息的认识和关注，这些信息集中在我们自己和其他人身上。
[11] There’s something disingenuous about expecting a woman to live in a culture that systematically reminds her of every failure to meet an absurd beauty ideal and then asking her to nonetheless feel beautiful. Instead of telling women they are beautiful, let’s tell them they don’t have to be. Let’s remind the women in our lives that we value them for what they do, not how they look.
单词注解
disingenuous[,dɪsɪn'dʒenjʊəs]adj. 虚伪的；不诚实的；不老实的；狡猾的
absurd [əb'sɜːd] adj. 荒谬的；可笑的 n. 荒诞；荒诞作品
翻译
在这种文化中，期待一个女人生活在一个有系统地提醒未能达到荒谬的美丽理想，然后让她觉得自己很漂亮，是不诚实的。不要告诉女人她们很漂亮，让我们告诉她们，她们不需要这样。让我们在生活中提醒女性们我们看中的是她们做了什么，而不是她们长得怎样。
[12] I’m in favor of positive, affirming messages. But why not focus those messages on qualities over which we have much more control? Let’s direct our attention to attributes that matter more than how we look.
单词注解
in favour of 支持，赞成
翻译
我支持积极的，肯定的信息。但是为什么不把这些信息集中在我们拥有更多控制权的质量上呢？让我们把注意力转移到比我们的外貌看起来更重要的事情上。
女性并不是外貌最重要，还有很多很多东西值得我们去追求。人都是世界上独一无二的，不要拿自己的短处和别人的长处比较。
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