【玄烨来了】筷子腿，冷白皮，A4腰还嫌不够？这群人开始切断腿神经了！

全文及翻译 

Be vigilant to ugly side of 'beauty' industry

警惕美容业的丑恶面

①Want your calves to be thinner and sleeker without doing exercise? Some people choose to receive calf reduction surgery, which involves cutting nerves that control the calf muscles. With the muscles receiving fewer signals to flex, the lower leg muscles begin to atrophy and reduce in size.

想要你的小腿修长纤细，还不用锻炼吗？一些人选择接受切断控制小腿肌肉神经的瘦腿术。这样，传达给肌肉的屈伸信号越来越少，小腿肌肉就会开始萎缩并变细。

②The term "calf neurectomy" has become a hot topic online recently, with some customers and aesthetic medicine institutes promoting the surgery by showing photos of those "thinner" legs.

一些医美机构和顾客通过展示“变细”的小腿照片，来宣传这种手术。“小腿神经阻断术”也就成为近期网络热议的话题。

③The surgery was soon criticized by doctors, who claimed that selective nerve blocking can cause exhaustion while walking and prevent people from doing strenuous exercises such as jumping and running.

很快，这类手术受到了医生的谴责，他们认为选择性的神经阻断会造成走路无力，并影响跑、跳等剧烈运动。

④Various aesthetic messages on social media platforms are affecting the new generation of young people in the information era, New words like A4 waist, cold white skin and chopstick legs are constantly being created to tell people what beauty is. These simple and singular aesthetic standards have promoted the term "appearance anxiety" to become a hot topic.

社交平台上，各种各样的审美信息正在影响着信息时代的新一代年轻人。“A4腰”“冷白皮”“筷子腿”等新式词汇不断被创造出来，告诉人们什么是美。这种浅薄单一的审美标准让“容貌焦虑”成为热门话题。

⑤According to media reports, China in 2020 witnessed the establishment of 5,150 new cosmetic surgery institutions, and the cosmetic surgery market reached 197.5 billion yuan ($30.5 billion), accounting for 17 percent of the world's total. 

据媒体报道，2020年，我国新成立美容整形机构5150家，其市场规模达到了1975亿元(305亿美元)，占全球美容整形市场总额的17%。

chinadaily.com

重点单词 

1. vigilant adj. 警惕的；警醒的

We don’t need to be afraid, but we should stay vigilant.

我们不用害怕，但应该保持警惕。

be vigilant to 对…保持警惕

2. calf n. 小腿肚

calf neurectomy小腿神经阻断术

3. sleek adj. 圆滑的，光滑的

4. flex v. 弯曲；收缩

5. atrophy v. 萎缩

6. aesthetic adj. 美的

aesthetics n. 美学

7. promote v. 促进；推广

promote sb. to do sth. 促使某人做某事

8. selective adj. 有选择性的

9. exhaustion n. 枯竭；精疲力竭

10. strenuous adj. 剧烈的；费力的

strenuous exercise 剧烈运动

11. singular adj. 单数的；单一的

12. witness n. 证人；目击者 v. 证明；目击

She was a witness of the incident. 

她是事件的目击者。

No one could witness that he was present.

没有人能证明他在场。

In the past 70 years, China has witnessed huge progress in economy.

过去70年见证了中国经济的飞速发展。

13. cosmetic adj. 美容的 n. 化妆品

重点短语 

1. be criticized by sb. 被某人指责

2. prevent sb. from doing sth. 阻止某人做某事

原文链接 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202105/26/WS60ad9382a31024ad0bac167b.html