推薦祝福網英語欄目一位母親給女兒寫了一封中英雙語美文欣賞信,

　　推薦祝福網英語欄目“一位母親給女兒寫了一封中英雙語美文欣賞信”，希望能幫到你！

　　dear girls,

　　親愛的孩子們，

　　you're so young right now, but i hope these letters will be helpful to you one day when you're older. there is so much i wish i could ask my mother now that i am a grown woman. there is so much we never got to talk about. i'm planning on being around for you well into your lives and adulthood, but even so, i think having these letters will be useful in some way. who knows how things might change down the road, and at least you'll have your 34-year-old mother's thoughts down on paper.

　　你現在太年輕了，但我希望有一天你長大了，這封信會對你有所幫助。作為一個成年女性，我也有很多問題要問我媽媽，有很多事情我從來沒有和她談過。在你的成長過程中，我會幫助你過上美好的生活，在你身邊長大，但即便如此，我認為這封信也能以其他方式讓你受益。沒有人知道未來會發生什么，但至少你會有我這個34歲的母親寫下她的想法供你參考。

　　anyway, i want this letter to be about beauty and my relationship to it. i feel this enormous responsibility, as a mother of two little girls, to lead you down a path that is relatively healthy when it comes to beauty and self image. in a lot of women's eyes i've probably already failed in that respect due to the amount of pink-princess-barbie mess cluttering up vera's room right now.

　　無論如何，我想談談我對美的看法。作為一個有兩個女兒的母親，當談到美和她自己的形象時，我有一個重要的責任來指導你相對健康的理解。雖然在許多女性看來，我在這方面并不值得稱贊，因為現在vera卡哇伊的芭比娃娃也亂七八糟。

　　but i will say this about barbie (and all the rest of that princess garbage): i played with that stuff for a solid decade when i was growing up and here i am now at a healthy weight with a healthy outlook about my body and image. i have a masters degree and have a successful career and a published book. if barbie were really so damaging to my femininity and self-image i highly doubt i could list all of the latter as accomplishments.

　　但對于芭比娃娃（以及一系列相關的公主垃圾玩具），我想說的是，當我還是個孩子的時候，我已經玩了十年了。現在我是一個有體重標準和健康外表的女人。我獲得了碩士學位，并成功地出版了一本書。如果芭比娃娃真的對我的女性特征和個人形象有破壞性的影響，那么我真的很懷疑我列出的成就是如何產生的。

　　but i get it too. it's hard for women to maintain a healthy self-image. it's hard not to obsess over our weight and to wish we could afford more stylish clothes. it's hard not to covet someone else's hair or hips or eyelashes, and to spend inordinate amounts of time trying to achieve looks that we were never suited for in the first place.

　　但我也知道，女性要保持健康的形象并不容易。真的很難買到更時尚的衣服而不受體重的困擾；不要覬覦其他女孩的發型、臀部和睫毛，花時間試圖控制那些完全不合適的形狀，這太難了。

　　i have girlfriends around whom i have to brace myself to see, because even though i love them, just being around them makes me self-conscious. i look at old pictures of my mother and wonder why i've never been able to be as skinny as she was. and then i have friends who are thinner than their mothers ever were. we women go round and round in circles, holding hands and trying to be one another sometimes.

　　我周圍有一群女性朋友。雖然我非常愛他們，但每次我聯系他們，我都需要振作起來，但和他們呆在一起我會感到不自然。看著我母親的老照片，我總是想知道為什么我永遠不會像她那么瘦，然后我發現我周圍的朋友比她母親年輕時更瘦。我們的女人總是在轉圈，有時她們會牽著對方的手試圖扮演對方的角色。

　　men like to think we dress and style ourselves for them, but why would we when they hardly notice? i've never tried so hard to look good as when i know i'm about to meet up with a stylish girlfriend. it's she who will notice my slimmed down waist or the thinnest, little bracelet on my arm.

　　男人認為我們穿衣服給他們看，但為什么當男人幾乎不注意這些時，我們仍然喜歡它呢？在我知道我很快就會遇到一個時尚的女性朋友之前，我會非常非常努力地打扮自己，讓自己看起來容光煥發。她肯定會注意到我纖細的腰線和手臂上纖細精致的手鐲。

　　and i have no doubt that the two of you, veronica and juliette, will endlessly compare yourselves to each other. you will wonder why one of you got longer legs or shinier hair or bigger breasts or thicker eyelashes. i know this, not because i know sisters, but because i know women. the thing i'll tell you, the thing to remember is this: not even the prettiest of us feel settled. the girl you think looks the most perfect in all the world is probably the girl who wants to change herself more than anyone else.

　　毫無疑問，我親愛的女兒維多妮卡和朱麗葉以后會無休止的互相比較。為什么對方的腿比自己長，頭發比自己亮，胸部比自己豐滿，或者睫毛比自己濃密？我知道這一點，不是因為我知道姐妹關系，而是因為我知道女人。我想告訴你，你必須記住的一件事是，即使是最漂亮的女人也沒有安全感，在你看來，最完美的女孩可能比任何人都想改變自己。

　　don't take these on. don't let that message carry any weight within yourselves. you are not worthless. you are so full of love and light and you should let it shine through you every second of every day. if someone pushes you down for standing tall then just push yourself back up and stand even taller. and know that the reason they pushed you down in the first place is just because they're scared. i will tell you that i have never in my life felt more beautiful than when i have stood my tallest.

　　不要太在意這些，不要讓這些信息增加你的負擔。你有自己獨特的價值。你的生活充滿了愛和光芒，讓它們每天照耀你的生活！假如有人為了站得高一點而把你推倒，那你必須堅強地站起來，讓自己站得更高！只是因為他們害怕，他們才推你。我想告訴你的是：當我站在生命的最高點時，我認為這是我認為最美麗的時刻！

　　stand tall.

　　昂首挺立。

　　love,

　　愛你們的，

　　mom

　　媽媽

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