大学英语第四册_1-5单元课文及翻译.docVIP

Unit1 If youre a man, at some 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 technique is to form an honest yet sensitive opinion, then collapse on the floor with some kind of fatal seizure.Trust me, this is the easiest way out. Because you will never come up with the right answer.　　Tore critical issues, such as the Super Bowl.　　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 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.　　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 be 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 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 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? 　　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 once saw an Oprah show wherein supe