自考高级英语上册_Lesson_15_The_Beauty_Industry.doc

HYPERLINK /res-2118-7777700125070.html 自考高级英语上册 Lesson 15 The Beauty Industry HYPERLINK / 大耳朵英语　? HYPERLINK / 　 2011-01-21 22:35:03　 【 HYPERLINK javascript:window.print(); 打印】 Lesson 15: The Beauty Industry美容用品业?The one American industry unaffected by the general depression of trade is the beamy industry.?美国工业中惟一未受贸易大萧条影响的是美容用品业。?American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before the coming of the slump經濟蕭條前—about three million pounds a week.?美国妇女仍不断在她们的脸上和身体上花费与经济萧条到来之前同样多的钱——每周约300万英镑。?These facts and figures are official, and can he accepted as being substantially 充分true.?这些事实与数字都是官方的，可大致属实。?Reading them. I was only surprised by the comparative 相對較小smallness of the sums expended.?当读到这时，我只为花费的数目相对较小而感到惊奇。?From the prodigious巨大 number of advertisements of aids to beauty contained in the American magazines,?从美国杂志上铺天盖地的化妆品广告来看，?I had imagined that the personal appearance business must stand high up among the champions of American industry—the equal, or only just less than the equal, of bootlegging販賣私酒 and racketeering,敲詐勒索 movies and automobiles.?从美国杂志上铺天盖地的化妆品广告来看，我原以为美容用品业一定居美国工业群雄之首，与贩卖私酒和敲诈勒索，电影和汽车业并驾齐驱或稍逊一筹。?Still, one hundred and fifty-six million pounds a year is a tidy 相當大的sum.?虽然如此，每年 1亿 5，600万英镑是一个相当不小的数目，?Rather more than twice the revenue收入 of India, if I remember rightly.?如果我没有记错的话，超出印度年收入的两倍。?I do not know what the European figures are. Much smaller undoubtedly.?我不知道欧洲的数字是多少，毫无疑问要小得多。?Europe is poor, and a face can cost as much in upkeep as a Rolls-Royce.?欧洲很穷，保养一张脸需要花费和保养一辆罗尔斯——罗伊斯牌汽车一样多的钱。?The most that the majority of European women can do is just to wash and hope for the best.?大多欧洲妇女最多只能洗洗脸，听天由命。?Perhaps the soap will produce its loudly advertised effects;?也许肥皂会产生广告中大肆宣扬的效果，?perhaps it will transform them into the likeness of those ravishing creatures who smile so rosily and creamily紅潤白嫩, so peachily艷如桃李 and pearlily美若珠肌, from every hoarding廣告牌.?也许能把她们变成像那些在每块