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【时文选读】为何好看的姑娘通常是富家女

VOA英语听力  · 公众号  · 英语  · 2017-08-20 22:07

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在Quora上有这样一个提问——why are atrractive girls always from wealthy families?


为什么好看的女生通常来自富有的家庭呢?


我们当中不少人也有这样的疑问吧,看看这些答主的回答。


Gordon Miller


Rich and successful men attract young and beautiful women to be their wives and to have children with. Those beautiful wives have beautiful kids, even if the guy is sometimes really ugly. The kids grow up and they continue to marry other rich successful men and they have kids that are even more beautiful then they continue to improve their looks over multiple generations. So, it has gotten to the point that in the US most girls from wealthy families are very attractive.


富有而成功的的男士吸引着年轻漂亮的女性,让她们想要成为这些人的妻子并生下他们的孩子。 那些漂亮的妻子常常会生下漂亮的孩子,就算有些成功男士长得丑也一样。这些孩子长大后会接着与富有的成功男士结婚,生下更美的孩子。过了几代后,这些家庭的外貌就发生了改变。因此在美国,许多来自富有家庭的女孩长得都很漂亮。


There are of course really attractive girls from poor families too, but they sometimes grow up to marry rich successful men and have beautiful kids in a wealthy family too.


当然, 穷苦家庭也会出现漂亮女孩,但她们有的在长大后也会嫁给富有的成功男士 ,在富裕的家庭诞下孩子。


Nikhil Kumar Sharma


The best phrase applicable for this question is:

我认为最能回答这个问题的句子是:


You were never ugly, you were poor.

你不丑,你只是穷。


Nobody in the world is ugly or unattractive. It' s just that they don't have enough money to look gorgeous and this theory is applicable for both the gender.The girl who you think is unattractive would surely look gorgeous if she was the daughter of a millionaire or somebody rich. It's just that a poor parent cannot spend so much after her daughter so that she can look attractive. So it's not like that poor girls are unattractive, it's just that she cannot afford expensive accessories to make her look beautiful.


这个世界上没有人真正丑得不能看或者毫无吸引力的人。他们会这样只是因为他们没有足够的钱让自己看起来光彩照人,这一点男女均适用。在你眼中平平无奇的女孩如果是百万富翁或者某个富豪的女儿,那么她肯定也能看起来靓丽动人。她之所以看起来平淡无奇是因为贫穷的父母没有多余的钱给女儿打扮。所以 不是贫穷的女孩没有吸引力,而是因为她买不起昂贵的饰物来让自己变美。


这位答主还举了一些before和after的例子,普特君只是把这些图片放上来,如果惹到哪位粉丝了,还请多见谅。


首先是我们的金卡黛珊,金大姐——

其实以前也蛮可爱的啊


接下来是足球明星梅西——

before


after


接下来这一位是我们的山东天后蕾哈娜日日女士——

before


after


最后是另一位足球明星,罗纳尔多——

before


after


Brooke Schwartz


Let's create two girls—Rita and Lily.

让我们创造出两个女孩——Rita与Lily。


Rita and Lily are identical twins. However, they are born to a teen mom who is unable to properly care for them. They are separated at birth and each one is adopted and raised by a different family.

Rita与Lily是同卵双胞胎 ,然而她们被无力抚养她们的青少年母亲送给了两户完全不同的人家。


Rita grows up in a poor family. Her adoptive parents often have to work odd jobs to make ends meet. She grows up with dirt under her fingernails and oil in her hair when her parents can't afford to pay the water bill. She is thin to the point of looking emaciated, because sometimes her only meal is the school lunch. Her hair grows freely.

Rita在贫困家庭长大。 她的养父母需要很努力工作才能做到收支平衡。她的父母付不起水费,因此她的指甲里总是很黑,她的头发也很油腻。她看起来十分消瘦,有时候她只能在学校午餐里吃到肉。她的发总是杂乱无章。


Lily is raised comfortably in an upper-class family. She grows up with regular visits to local hair and nail salons. She has special tweezers to get rid of the odd hair or two, and she visits a local waxing place regularly to shape her eyebrows. It's annoying, because it grows so fast. She eats a lot, and has nicely developed curves.

Lily成长于上等家庭。 从小到大,她经常会去做美甲与美发,还会去美妆店修眉。她的眉毛长得太快,常常令她苦恼。她吃得很多,身材曲线很美。


Lily is considered beautiful. Rita is considered ugly.

Lily是人们眼中的美女,而Rita却很丑。


As teens, the two find each other online, and Rita convinces her parents to let her visit Lily for awhile. The discrepancy between them is immediately apparent when they first meet. Lily has been primped and pampered for all of her life, and it shows in her glowing skin and rosy cheeks. Her fingernails are carefully manicured, her hands dainty, her skin soft and pale. Her hair is perfectly styled and she is dressed in expensive clothing.

这对双胞胎在青少年时期于网上找到了彼此。 她们第一次见面时,二人之间的差别十分明显。 Lily娇生惯养,过于打扮自己,从她那发光的皮肤和红润的脸颊可以看出来。她的指甲被精心修剪过,她的手很柔嫩,她的皮肤柔软而白皙。她的头发很有型,她还穿着昂贵的衣服。


Rita, meanwhile, is a bit filthy, her hair long and greasy, and she has something of a unibrow. There is dirt lodged under her fingernails, and her hands are calloused from days of hard physical labor when she needs to help her parents out so they can put food on the table. She has colored onto her skin in some places with permanent marker to hide the holes in her clothes, because they're so worn.

与此同时,Rita却不太体面。她的头发长而油腻,眉毛还连在了一起。她的指甲不干净,她的手也由于要帮养父母做事而变得十分粗糙。她的皮肤不算白,身上某些地方还留下了永久伤疤。她的衣服破了,因此人们能从她衣服上的破洞看出她经历了什么。


Lily is pretty; Rita is not.

Lily很美,Rita却不美。


Lily is horrified by the state of her sister. We can't be twins, she keeps repeating to herself.

Lily深感震惊,她不停地想我们绝对不可能是双胞胎。


Rita is envious of her sister's beauty. I could look like that, she tells herself, if I'd had more money.







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