美英报刊演讲1研究报告.pptx

Group members: 叶梦雨 柴春苗 季圣露 阮梦婷 李传淼 The Beauty Advantage Beauty : the quality of being pleasing to the senses or to the mind. from Oxford Advanced learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary Social phenomenon Advantage and disadvantage New words CONTENTS Americans pay great attention to their own image Please turn to the page 131 Please turn to the page 131 The survey about American ? To be beautiful is to pay a high price. The first is the high cost of surgery. Discomfort after surgery ? ? Judging people by outward appearance Social phenomenon Paragraph 2 line 3 Handsome men earn, on average, 5 percent more than their less-attractive counterparts. ? Good-looking women earn 4 percent more. Social phenomenon ? A couple of decades ago, when the economy was thriving-and it was a makeup-less Kate Moss, not a plastic-surgery-plumped Paris Hilton, who was considered the beauty ideal- we might have brushed off those statistics as superficial. Paragraph 2 line 6 Social phenomenon Nixon Kennedy It goes to show our beauty bias is nothing novel. At the time, radio listeners thought Nixon had won, but those watching Kennedy’s tanned, chiseled face on TV, next to a worn-down, 5 o’clock-shadowed Nixon, were sure it was the junior senator. Paragraph 5 line 1 Advantages and disadvantage ? Disadvantage have big risk to our health even our whole life The surgery will cost high price, and increase our economical burden The failure of the plastic surgery will cause worse appearance. dub(P2 L2) 把…戏称为，给…起绰号 -give sb./ sth a particular name, often in a humorous or critical way bloated(P2 L9) 膨胀的;臃肿的 -full of liquid or gas and therefore bigger than normal, in a way that is unpleasant cosmetic(P3 L4)化妆品；美容品 a substance that you put on your face or your body to make it more attractive The cosmetic industry化妆品行业 frivolous(p3 L10) 不重要 -silly or amusing, especially when such behavior is not suitable. -having no useful or serious purpose. New words