The Beauty Industry翻译

It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past.从更多的女人比过去更长久地保持年轻外貌这一点看，这是个成功。

"Old ladies" are already becoming rare.“老太太”已经很少见了。

In a few years, we may well believe, they will be extinct绝迹.我们可以相信，几年后她将绝迹。

White hair and wrinkles, a bent back and hollow cheeks will come to be regarded as medily 中世纪old-fashioned.满头白发、满脸皱纹、弯腰曲背、两颊深陷会被看作是中世纪般的过时The crone of the future will be golden, curly 卷曲and cherry-lipped, neatankled匀侧 and slender.未来的老太婆将有卷曲的金发，樱桃红唇，匀侧脚踝，苗条身材。

The Portrait of the Artist's Mother will come to be almost indistinguishable难以分辩, at future picture shows, from the Portrait of the Artist's Daughter.在未来的画展上，艺术家母亲的画像与其女儿的画像将变得几乎难以分辨，This desirable consummation will be due in pan to skin foods and injections of paraffin-wax, facial surgery, mud baths泥浴, and paint, in part to improved health, due in its turn to a more rational mode of life.这一令人满意的结果一部分是由于有了护肤品和使胸部丰满的石蜡，整形外科，泥浴，化妆品，另外也由于更合理的生活方式造成的健康状态的改善。

Ugliness is one of the symptoms of disease, beauty of health.丑陋是疾病的症状之一，美则是健康的象征。

In so far as the campaign for more beauty is also a campaign for more health,it is admirable and, up to a point, genuinely successful.争取更多美丽的运动就是争取更健康的运动，就这点而言，是值得赞许的，并且在一定程度上是真正获得了成功。

Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of health is intrinsically of poorer quality than the genuine article.模仿出来的象征健康的美本质上就比真货质量差，Still, it is a sufficiently good imitation(模仿) to be sometimes mistakeable for the real thing.然而模仿技术有时足以乱真。

The apparatus器具 for mimicking模仿 the symptoms of health is now within the reach of every moderately prosperous person;以仿造健康状态的设备现在每一个中等富裕的人都可以买得起；the knowledge of the way in which real health can be achieved is growing, and will in time, no doubt, be universally acted upon.用有关真正健康方面的知识也在不断增加，且无疑终将被所有人采用。

When that happy moment conies, will every woman be beautiful—as beautiful, at any rate, as the natural shape of her features, with or without surgical and chemical aid, permits?当那个幸福时刻来临之时，是否每个女人都会很美丽——至少和她五官的自然形状在有或没有外科手术或化物品的帮助下同样美丽?The answer is emphatically断然的: No. For real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self.回答是断然的：不是。

真正的美，内在与外表同样重要。

The beauty of a porcelain jar陶器罐 is a matter of shape, of colour, of surface texture.细瓷瓶美在外形、色彩、质地。

The jar may be empty or tenanted by spiders, full of honey or stinking slime罐子可能是空的，也可能为蜘蛛盘踞，装满蜂蜜或又臭又粘的液体，—it makes no difference to its beauty or ugliness.而这一切都不影响瓷瓶的美与丑But a woman is alive, and her beauty is therefore not skin deep.但人是活生生的，因而她的美不是表面的。

The surface of the human vessel is affected by the nature of its spiritual contents.人这种容器受其精神内涵的影响。

I have seen women who, by the standards of a connoisseur of porcelain, 瓷器鉴赏家were ravishingly lovely.我见过一些女人，如果用瓷器鉴赏家的标准来衡量，她们可爱得迷人。

Their shape, their colour, their surface texture were perfect. And yet they were not beautiful.她们的外形、色彩、表面质地都完美无缺，然而她们却不美，For the lovely vase was either empty or filled with some corruption.因为这可爱的花瓶不是空空如也便是充满了某种腐朽，Spiritual emptiness or ugliness shows through.精神空虚或灵魂丑恶透过外表显露出来。

And conversely, there is an interior light心灵的光芒 that can transfigure forms that the pure aesthetician would regard as imperfect or downright ugly.相反，有种心灵的光芒可以把纯唯美主义者们认为有缺陷或简直是丑陋的外形变得美好。

There are numerous forms of psychological ugliness.多种形式的心理丑陋，There is an ugliness of stupidity, for example, of unawareness (distressingly common among pretty women). An ugliness also of greed, of lasciviousness好色的, of avarice. 还有贪心、淫荡、贪婪无厌。

例如愚蠢、无自知之明（在漂亮女人中此现象普遍得令人苦恼），All the deadly sins, indeed, have their own peculiar 奇特的negation of beauty.一切遭天谴的大罪都以其奇特的方式损坏美。

On the pretty faces of those especially who are trying to have a continuous "good time,"在那些漂亮的脸蛋上，特别是在那些企图不停“享乐”的人的脸蛋上，one sees very often a kind of bored sullenness that ruins破坏 all their charm.常常可以看到一种厌倦的、阴沉的神情，破坏了他们的容貌。

I remember in particular two young American girls I once met in North Africa.我特别记得我曾在北非遇见的两个年轻美国女郎。

From the porcelain specialist's point of view, they were beautiful.从瓷器专家的观点来看，她们是美丽的，But the sullen boredom of which I have spoken was so deeply stamped into their fresh faces,但我上面谈到的那种阴沉厌倦的神情如此深深地刻在了她们年轻的脸上，their gait步态 and gestures 姿态expressed so weary a listlessness, that it was unbearable to look at them.她们的步伐和姿态表现出无聊与无精打采，真让人受不了。

These exquisite creatures were positively repulsive.这些精美的人物的确令人厌恶。

Still commoner and no less repellent is the hardness which spoils 损坏so many pretty faces.更为常见且同样使人反感的是损害了漂亮面孔的冷酷表情。