2024年12月六级第1套仔细阅读 Passage 2 原文翻译及答案解析

An awakening has been taking place in the physical world against the beauty model that has been dictated to us for years. But in the digital arena, social media determines what is considered beautiful.

在物理世界中，一场觉醒正在发生，反对多年来强加给我们的美丽模式。但在数字领域，社交媒体决定了什么是美。

The two opposing struggles are taking place in parallel. In the physical world, the struggle goes against the underlying pressure exerted on women to conform to an unrealistic beauty ideal. As part of the struggle, various media outlets have presented women whose bodies don't correspond to the so-called ideal. All those women who had previously been excluded from the covers of magazines, television series and the public agenda, have become "legitimate." At the same time, a group of influencers have begun to upload to social media photos of themselves without makeup, and even photos in which they highlight supposed flaws.

两场对立的斗争正在并行进行。在物理世界中，这场斗争反对施加在女性身上、要求她们符合不切实际的美丽理想的潜在压力。作为斗争的一部分，各类媒体展示了身体不符合所谓理想的女性。所有那些曾被排除在杂志封面、电视剧和公共议程之外的女性，都变得“合法”了。同时，一群网红开始上传自己不化妆的照片，甚至上传突出所谓缺陷的照片。

Technology has reshaped our beauty ideal and is doing a great job communicating that message to the masses. One of the bizarre legacies of the past decade is the popularity of the "cyborg look," which illustrates what Americans will look like in 2050. The cyborg look spread rapidly. Today, however, the Instagram face has become the new beauty ideal.

技术重塑了我们的美丽理想，并在向大众传达这一信息方面做得很好。过去十年的怪异遗产之一是“半机械人造型”的流行，它展示了2050年美国人将是什么样子。半机械人造型迅速传播。然而今天，Instagram脸已成为新的美丽理想。

The internalization of accepted beauty norms is much more effective when there is active involvement in the learning process. The active involvement of users is reflected in the gamified (游戏化的) interaction offered by the social media platforms—the ability to like, write a comment, compare, share.

当学习过程有积极参与时，接受美丽规范的内化会更有效。用户的积极参与体现在社交媒体平台提供的游戏化互动中——点赞、写评论、比较、分享的能力。

Once the desired beauty ideal has been internalized, users are given tools or features to change their appearance to suit the accepted beauty ideal such as editing the image, choosing the ideal filter, the right background.

一旦理想的美丽理想被内化，用户就会获得改变外观以适应接受的美丽理想的工具或功能，如编辑图像、选择理想的滤镜、合适的背景。

A survey conducted in the United States revealed that more than 50% filter the images before posting them. And you will not be surprised to hear that the majority of them are women. One of the significant consequences of obsessive filtering is the emerging tendency to treat oneself as an object to be observed and valued, in the same way another person observes and judges from the side.

一项在美国进行的调查显示，超过50%的人在发布图像前会进行滤镜处理。听到其中大多数是女性，你不会感到惊讶。过度滤镜的一个重要后果是，出现了将自己视为被观察和评价的对象的倾向，就像另一个人从侧面观察和评判一样。

The effect of the filters is already far beyond amiable amusement. The filters and the entire game played on the networks affect the mental health of the users. According to a study, apps like Instagram, Snapchat and FaceTune allow users to achieve a level of perfection that was previously only observed in beauty magazines. Even though humanity has always cherished beauty, in the last decade our obsession with looks has reached an unprecedented peak. The time spent on social media creates an urge to achieve an impossible beauty ideal so powerful that the only thing that can fix it is not cosmetic intervention, but mental health care.

滤镜的效果已远超出友好的娱乐。滤镜以及在网络上进行的整个游戏影响了用户的心理健康。根据一项研究，像Instagram、Snapchat和FaceTune这样的应用程序让用户达到了以前只在美容杂志中观察到的完美程度。尽管人类一直珍视美，但在过去十年中，我们对外表的痴迷达到了前所未有的高峰。在社交媒体上花费的时间催生了实现不可能的美丽理想的强烈冲动，以至于唯一能解决它的不是美容干预，而是心理健康护理。