晨读英语美文60篇(含lrc字幕) The Beauty Industry
 音频下载[点击右键另存为]同步字幕下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.00]The Beauty Industry [00:06.51]The one American industry unaffected [00:10.44]by the general depression of trade [00:12.19]is the beauty industry. [00:13.52]American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies [00:18.22]as much as they spent before the coming of the slump— [00:21.71]about three million pounds a week. [00:24.65]These facts and figures are “official”, [00:27.84]and can be accepted as being substantially true. [00:31.65]The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth. [00:37.24]If it were, then the personal appearance industries [00:41.28]would have been as hardly hit by the trade depression [00:43.69]as any other business. [00:44.99]But, as we have seen, [00:46.64]they have not suffered. [00:48.40]Women are retrenching on other things than their faces. [00:52.77]Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. [00:57.36]Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social functions [01:03.60]hitherto reserved to the male, [01:05.77]but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, [01:09.07]feminine privilege of being attractive [01:11.36]The fortunes are made justly [01:14.10]by face－cream manufacturers and beauty-specialists, [01:17.81]by the sellers of rubber reducing-belts and massage machines, [01:23.06]by the patentees of hair-lotions [01:26.23]and the authors of books on the culture of the abdomen. [01:29.63]It is a success in so far as more women [01:33.23]retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. [01:37.50]The Portrait of the Artist’s Mother [01:40.88]will come to be almost indistinguishable, [01:44.17]at future picture shows, [01:45.93]from the Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter. [01:48.77]The success is part due to skin foods [01:52.14]and injections of paraffin-wax, [01:54.68]facial surgery, mud baths, and paint, [01:58.50]and in part due to improved health. [02:01.55]So far, some people, [02:03.09]the campaign for more beauty is also a campaign for more health. [02:07.46]Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow [02:10.54]of these symptoms of health [02:12.05]is intrinsically of poorer quality than the genuine article. [02:16.56]Still, it is a sufficiently good imitation [02:20.49]to be sometimes mistakable for the real thing. [02:23.43]Every middle-income person can afford the cosmetic apparatus [02:28.57]and more knowledge of the way [02:30.33]in which real health can be achieved is being universally acted upon. [02:35.03]When that happy moment comes, [02:37.64]will every woman be beautiful-as beautiful, [02:41.38]at any rate, as the natural shape of her features? [02:44.22]The answer is apparent: [02:46.41]No, for real beauty is as much an affair [02:50.46]of the inner as of the outer self. |
