miami英语采访(偏重对话)材料

2021年1月16日发(作者：尚志功)
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A: Do you hear what happened to Sally? ——你听说莎利出什么事了吗？
B: No, what? ——没有，什么事？
A: She had to go to the hospital. ——她必须去医院。
B: Why? ——为什么？
A: She passed out in class. Seems she hadn't eaten anything in days.
——她在课堂上昏倒了。好像她几天没有吃东西了。
B: Why on earth would she do that? You mean that she intentionally2 did not eat
any food for days? That's crazy!
——她究竟为什么要那样做？你是说她故意几天不吃东西？那真是疯狂！
A: Yeah, but that's what she did. ——是的，但她是那么做的。
B: I can't believe that there are girls who are willing to do that to their bodies.
And all for a certain look.
——我不相信有女孩子愿意对她的身体那样做，况且仅仅是为了某些方面好看。
A: Well, it's not just the girl’s fault. It's also society's fault - magazines and
ads that show wafer3 - thin models all saying “It's in to be thin”. It's hard for
them not to listen.
——唔，这不只是这个女孩子的过错。也是社会的过错——那些登着最瘦模特的杂志和广告
都说“减肥 很流行”。对她们来说，不听是很难的。
B: True, but there are limits. Being thin is one thing; starving oneself to death
is another. No one forces them to do this.
——是这样，但也要有限度。减肥是一回事，把自己饿死是另外一回事。没有人强迫她们这
样做。
A: I know that, but sometimes it's hard to make the right decision. And besides,
anorexia4 is a psychological5 problem as well. Anorexics never think that they are
thin enough, and they keep pushing themselves.
——我 知道，但有时做出正确的决策是很难的。而且此外，厌食症也是一个心理问题。厌食
者从不认为她们已经 够瘦了，而不停地压制她们自己。
B: Well, they should do more to tone down6 those messages and try to promote
a healthier body image. It really hurts girls if they grow up thinking they're always
too fat.
——唔，她们应该努力减弱这些信息的影响，尽量提倡一个更健康的身体形象。如果女孩子
长大时总认为她们太胖了，这确实是在伤害她们自己。
A: I agree. I don’t understand why you always look so happy, so energetic. It
seems like you’ve got good news everyday.