时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:新视野听说教程2


英语课

  The pain in Wearing High Heels

They are wearing high heels this year.

Are you?

Since I was a little girl, I've been trying to figure out exactly who "they " are and why the rest of us are supposed to dress just like them. The heavier I was , the more I would make fun of my sisiter and mother for their imitating "Don't you have any taste of your own?"

But even I was interested in what shoes they were wearing. Everyone likes shoe-shopping. Your size isn't your fault. There's nothing you can do about it. And at least in theory , anyone can wear any shoe:That's why they come in so many sizes.

As foot specialists will tell you , shoes can be dangerous to your feet. The thinner and higher the heel, the greater the risk if foot and back problems. Standing 1 in high heels inevitably 2 hurts after an hour on foot. This results in aches and pains.

It gets worse. The popularity of tennis shoes has led women's feet literally 3 to get bigger -especially wider-but the sizing of shoes hasn't changed. Most women wear shoes that fit poorly , usually ones that are too small, which adds pain to high-heel hell.

So why do we do it? The traditional criticism is that women are slaves to male ideas. Fashion culture controlled by models leads us to offer our toes and our check books to satisfy some men 's idea of sexy shoes. Much of the advertising 4 of this year's return to heels as high as 6 inches focuses on the shoes and the short skirts that go with them as a statement by women of their sexiness and female charm . Apparently 5, wearing high heels pushes your breasts out by changing your centre of gravity . In Florence and Milan , men were reportedly salivating.

In Bloomingdale's shoe department , all the salivating was done by women, myself included. Strictly 6 as research , of course, I tried on shoes and observed other women doing the same. Almost everyonbe is trying on the new higher heels. We strut 7 around. We throw our heads a little, and laugh.

Feet look smaller in high heels . Most women in America have big feet. Believe it or not, 9 ,1/2 is the most popular size . It isn't juts 8 you. And it isn't just feet. High heels make a woman's leg look longer, and everyone looks better with longe legs. There is story that holds that high heels were first brought to America by a famous New Orleans madam who discovered that she could charge twice as much when a woman wore high heels.

In fact, none of the women I talked to wre buying shoes to please the men in their lives."My husband won't even notice the shoes," a woman told me . More than one said husbands or boyfriends wouldn't like her because they'd make her too tall. Most men seem to prefer keeping the height advantage to heels , pushed-out breasts

notwithstanding . The higher the heels get, the more men who face the tradeoff

No one pretends high heels are as comfortable as flats. It's what they do to your head, not your feet. That's what makes women walk differently and look differently in high heels .

I almost succumbed 9, but they are too costly 10 , and how often can I wear them? Not sensible . Not practical . Definitely not right for work and kids

But the next day in Leohmann's on sale yet , I find a pair that are just as good . Now I just have to get invited somewhere in my high heels.



n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
adv.不可避免地;必然发生地
  • In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去,毫无疑问是会散伙的。
  • Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
adv.严厉地,严格地;严密地
  • His doctor is dieting him strictly.他的医生严格规定他的饮食。
  • The guests were seated strictly in order of precedence.客人严格按照地位高低就座。
v.肿胀,鼓起;大摇大摆地走;炫耀;支撑;撑开;n.高视阔步;支柱,撑杆
  • The circulation economy development needs the green science and technology innovation as the strut.循环经济的发展需要绿色科技创新生态化作为支撑。
  • Now we'll strut arm and arm.这会儿咱们可以手挽着手儿,高视阔步地走了。
v.(使)突出( jut的第三人称单数 );伸出;(从…)突出;高出
  • A small section of rock juts out into the harbour. 山岩的一小角突入港湾。 来自辞典例句
  • The balcony juts out over the swimming pool. 阳台伸出在游泳池上方。 来自辞典例句
不再抵抗(诱惑、疾病、攻击等)( succumb的过去式和过去分词 ); 屈从; 被压垮; 死
  • The town succumbed after a short siege. 该城被围困不久即告失守。
  • After an artillery bombardment lasting several days the town finally succumbed. 在持续炮轰数日后,该城终于屈服了。
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
学英语单词
beryllia ceramics
borking
bring the water to someone's mouth
cextro-compound
clair-obscure
clinkering zone
colleges and univeristies
Commissioner General
common usage
community investment
contact-type operation
critical excitation
cul-de-four
cylindrical vessel
distruptive distance
divertment
ethyl nitrite
evil-willer
Fabre's tests
Finvein
foreheating
fundamental lattice
gobi Altai
graphite oxidation
high ash content
hilmar
humeral bristle
impolitenesses
in conmon parlance
in there
indivulsive
Irgun
iridium fountain pen with stainless cap
iridsite-beta
isospondylis
jamettes
juvenile embryonal carcinoma
kileys
knotted marjorams
landing ship dock (lsd)
limit of sensitivity
load capacitor
Loga
meatus conchae ethmoturbinalis majoris
monoblock steel wheel
Moschcowitz tests
Mountainair
muehlig
nasreen
neolentinus suffrutescens
non-interpolating semi-lagrangian method
Norybol-19
nuclear magnetic double resonance
numerical simulations
oily debris disposal
on one's feet
oppressest
OWelsh
Pd D
per accident
PHGLY
primary coolant
Protector Shoal
pseudoscalars
pulmoscintigram
q unsatisfiability
random orbit
rapee
readapted
renal medulla
revolution per minute
Saldenburg
sambadrome
scaling off
scrapie
securities collateral loan
semicarbon paper
shading
Sheltozero
slingers
spontaneous hyperinsulinism
Spring City
st. paul i.
stages of commission of a crime
staggered line flooding
sterile generator
surface packer
sweep off one's feet
takesimensis
television pickup station
tighten his belt
time-counting
torsional bending motion
treehouse
Trelease stonecrop
tri-car
unsuspend
vascular parabiosis
VdB
wartburgs
wellderly
wulfram