gamez新视野大学英语泛读2课文翻译

2021年1月20日发(作者：耐磨件)
Unit 6
A
篇


The Ugly Truth About Beauty -Like It or Not, Looks Do Matter
By John Stossel We like to think of America as a meritocracy.
A
lot
of
us
think
we
value
people
because
of
what
they
accomplish,
or
their
character,
or
generosity,
or
intelligence-that's
what
we thought mattered, but are we just putting blinders on?
相
貌歧视
-
不管喜欢不喜欢，相貌确实很重要

丁夏林

译

郭昌晖

校
注

我们爱把美国看成一个精英荟萃的国家。我们许多人认为，自己
之

所以看重别人是因为他们有成就，或人品好，或宽厚仁慈，或天
资聪明

——过去我们都认为这些是至关重要的，

但现在我们是不是
都戴上障眼

物了呢？
More often than not it seems qualities
other
than
skill,
intelligence
or
character
pay
off.
Here's
an
example.
Anna
Kournikova
is
ranked
37th
in
women's
tennis,
and
has never
won a
major singles
championship.
So,
why
is it
that
Kournikova
makes
millions
more
dollars
from
endorsements
than
players ranked higher? [2] Looks don't only make a difference
for women. Does New York Giants' cornerback Jason Sehorn get
so
much attention
just
because
he's
a
top
athlete?
Is
that
why
he
was
featured
in
Sports
Illustrated
for
Women?
[3]
You
probably know about the famous Kennedy-Nixon debates-people
listening on the radio thought Richard Nixon had won. Those
watching TV thought the handsome John y won. [4] When
Texas Sen. Phil Gramm sought the Republican nomination for
president in 1996, he said
：
“
The real question is whether
someone
as
ugly
as
I
am
can
be
elected.
”
Within
months,
Gramm
dropped out of the race. [5] Did the press cover JFK Jr. so
relentlessly
solely
because
he
was
the
son
of
a
president?
Would
we
have
cared
so
much
about
Princess
Di
if
she
had
looked
like,
say, Princess Margaret?
看来，给人们带来好处的往往不是技术、
智力或人品，而是其他一

些特质。安娜·库尔尼科娃就是一个例子。
她在女子网球的世界排名中

位列第
37
，而且还从未获得过重要的
单打冠军。那么，为什么库尔尼

科娃从广告中获得的收入要比排名
靠前的球员多几百万美元呢？
[2]
美貌不仅对妇女管用。

纽约巨人
橄榄球队的角后卫贾森·泽霍

恩如此受人关注，难道仅仅因为他是
一名顶级运动员吗？《妇女体育画

报》对他进行报道也只是因为上
述那个原因吗？
[3]
你也许了解肯尼迪和尼克松之间那场著名的电
视辩论的情况

——听收音机的人认为理查德·尼克松获得了胜利，

而看电视的人则认

为赢家是英俊潇洒的肯尼迪。
[4]
得克萨斯州参
议员菲尔·
格拉姆在
1996
年竞选共和党的总

统提名时曾说过：
“真
正的问题是像我这样相貌不佳的人能否被选

上。
”
几个月后，
格拉姆
就退出了竞选。
[5]
媒体连篇累牍地报道小肯尼迪的情况，

仅仅因
为他是总统的儿

子吗？比如说，假如戴安娜王妃与玛格丽特公主一
样相貌平平，我们还

会这么关注她吗？
Beauty and the Brain [6]
It may seem obvious to most of us that people would prefer to
look
at
beautiful
faces.
While
beauty
itself
may
be
only
skindeep,
studies
show
our
perception
of
beauty
may
be
hardwired
in
our
brains.
In
studies
conducted
at
Massachusetts
General Hospital ,Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology
researchers
Itzhak
Aharon,
Nancy
Etcoff,
Dan
Ariely,
Christopher
F.
Chabris,
Ethan
O'Connor,
and
Hans
C.
Breiter
have
used
magnetic
resonance
imaging(MRI)
technology to look at the activity in men's brains when they
were
shown
pictures
of
beautiful
women's
faces.
Breiter
and
his
colleagues found that the same part of the bain lights up as
when a hungry person sees food, or a gambler eyes cash, or a
drug
addict
sees
a
fix.
Essentially,
beauty
and
addiction
trigger
the
same
areas
in
the
brain.
[7]
Some
researchers
link
this
addictive
pursuit
of
good
looks
to
evolution.
Anthropologist
Helen
Fisher,
suggests
that
primitive
man
might
have unconsciously thought that a pretty woman had a better
chance of bearing healthy children.
美貌与大脑
[6]
显然，在
我们大部分人的心目中，漂亮的脸蛋看似更诱人。虽

然美貌本身也
许只是表面一层皮，但种种研究表明，我们的审美观可能

和我们的
大脑密切相关。在马萨诸塞州总医学院进行的各项研究中，研

究人
员伊扎克·
阿哈龙、
南希·
埃特科夫、
丹·
阿列力、
克里斯托

弗·
F
·
夏
布里斯、伊桑·奥康纳和汉斯·
C
·布赖特运用了磁共振

成像技术
来观察男士在面对美貌女士照片时大脑的活动情况。

布赖特和

他的
同事们发现，
此时男士大脑的某区域开始兴奋起来，
此区域与饥饿

的
人看到食物、赌徒看到现金或瘾君子看到毒品时大脑兴奋的区域相

同。美貌与毒瘾激活的基本上是男士大脑中相同的区域。
[7]
一些
研究人员把这种对美貌的上瘾似的追求与进化联系在一

起。人类学
家海伦·费希尔提出，原始人可能无意识地认为，漂亮女人

更有可
能生出健康的孩子。
The Long and the Short of It [8] Likewise,
evolution may have led women to prefer taller men. [9] Women
will take just about any shortcoming in a man, except in the
height
department,
according
to
Andrea
McGinty,
who
founded
the
San Diego-based dating service It's Just Lunch. [10] McGinty
helped ABCNEWS put together an experiment to test just how
willing women are to date shorter men. We brought together
several short men and asked them to stand next to taller men.
We
invited
groups
of
women
to
look
at
the
men
and
choose
a
date.
[11] To see if the women would go for short guys who were
successful,
ABCNEWS'
Lynn
Sherr
created
extraordinary
r
é
sum
é
s for the shorter men. She told the women that the shorter
men
included
a
doctor,
a
best-selling
author,
a
champion
skier,
a
venture
capitalist
who'd
made
millions
by
the
age
of
25.
[12]