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The confusing pursuit of beauty

令人困惑的对美的追求

1 If you're a man, at some point a woman will ask you how she looks.

如果你是一位男士，肯定在某个时候会有女士问你她看起来怎么样。

2 You must be careful how you answer this question. The best technique is to form an

honest yet sensitive response, then promptly excuse yourself for some kind of emergency.

Trust me, this is the easiest way out. No amount of rehearsal will help you come up with the

right answer.

对于如何应对这个问题，你一定得小心。最好的对策就是给一个诚实但又谨慎的回答，然后借口

有急事马上脱身。相信我，这是最简单的方法。对于她的这一问题，无论你事先练习多少次，都不会

找到正确答案。

3 The problem is that men do not think of their looks in the same way women do. Most

men form an opinion of themselves in seventh grade and stick to it for the rest of their lives.

Some men think they're irresistibly desirable, and they refuse to change this opinion even

when they grow bald and their faces visibly wrinkle as they age.

其原因是，男性和女性对外表的看法截然不同。大多数男性对自己外表的评价在七年级时就形成

了，而且终生不变。有些男性认为自己有不可抗拒的魅力，即使随着年龄的增长，他们头发掉光了，

脸上布满皱纹，他们仍然拒绝改变这种看法。

4 Most men, I believe, are not arrogant about their looks. If the transient thought passes

through their minds at all, they like to think of themselves as average-looking. Being average

doesn't bother them; average is fine. They don't affix much value to their looks, or think of

them in terms of aesthetics. Their primary form of beauty care is to shave themselves, which

is essentially the same care they give to their lawns. If, at the end of his four minute allotment

of time for grooming, a man has managed to wipe most of the shaving cream out of the

strands of his hair and isn't bleeding too badly, he feels he's done all he can.

我相信，大多数男性都不会对自己的相貌感到过分自傲。如果他们偶尔想到自己外表的话，他们

愿意认为自己样貌中等。长相普通不会使他们有任何烦恼，因为普通就已经是很好了。男性不是特别

注重自己的外貌，也不会从美学的角度去审视自己。他们的打扮方式主要就是刮刮胡子，就像打理自

家草坪一样。对于一位男性来说，如果能花四分钟刮刮胡子，结束之后再把粘到头发上的剃须膏擦

净，又没有出血太厉害，他就觉得自己已经尽心尽力了。

5 Women do not look at themselves this way. If I had to guess what most women think

about their appearance, it would be: "Not good enough." No matter how attractive a woman

may be, her perception of herself is eclipsed by the beauty industry. She has trouble thinking

"I'm beautiful." She magnifies the smallest imperfections in her body and imagines them as

glaring flaws the whole world will notice and ridicule.

女性可不是这样看待自己的。如果非要我猜测大多数女性对自己的相貌是如何评价的话，那肯定

是：“还不够好。”一位女士，无论她看起来多么吸引人，她对自己的看法总是由于受美容业的影响

而蒙着一层阴影。要她认为“我很漂亮”是一件难事。她把身体上的极小的不完美之处加以放大，并

且幻想这些缺点十分明显，以至于全世界的人都会注意到并且嘲笑她。

6 Why do women consider their looks so deficient? This chronic insecurity isn't inborn,

but created through the interaction of many complex psychological and societal factors,

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