1．You could call me a shop-a-holic, as most of my friends do, but I call myself a lover of fashion. (para. 1)
你可以说我是购物狂，朋友大都这样说我，不过我自认为是个时尚爱好者。
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2．Sitting in my room, I look in my closet at all my belongings and wonder what else I want to buy. (para. 1)
坐在房间里，看着壁橱里所有的东西，我总是在想还有什么要买的。
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3．Abercrombie, Guess, J Crew and Ralph Lauren are just a few of the name-brand items that clutter my room. (para. 1)
Abercrombie, Guess, J Crew, Ralph Lauren，还有其他名牌服饰，充斥着我的房间，
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4．And I want more. (para. 1)
但我还想要更多。
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5．I've never stopped to question whether I'm getting what I'm paying for, though I've always been a "smart" shopper, a sale shopper. (para. 1)
我从不考虑我买的东西是否物有所值，虽然我买东西一直都很“精明”，买的都是打折的商品。
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6．But, as I learn more about my future field, marketing, I realize that I am a victim of advertising. (para. 1)
然而，我对将来要从事的营销领域了解越深入，就越明白自己原来是深受广告的左右。
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7．All the things I want and buy are influenced by what magazines, television, and other advertisers tell me I need to buy. (para. 1)
我想要的，我所买的，都受到杂志、电视或别的广告商的影响，它们在告诉我该买些什么。
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8．Everyone wears clothes. (para. 2)
人人都穿衣服。
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9．They can be a statement, a style, or a definition of who you are. (para. 2)
衣着可以展现个性，显示品味，定义性格。
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10．They can also be a simple necessity. (para. 2)
也可以只是为了基本的需求。
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11．For me, clothing has meant different things. (para. 2)
对我而言，衣着在不同时期有不同的意义。
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12．As a child, I wore what my mother gave me or the hand-me-downs from my sister. (para. 2)
小时候，妈妈给什么我就穿什么，要不就穿姐姐的旧衣服。
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13．I never questioned how I looked, but I liked to dress up. (para. 2)
我从不考虑衣着打扮，不过我喜欢穿得漂漂亮亮的。
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14．In middle school, I became more concerned with my appearance, like most girls. (para. 3)
初中时，像大多数女生一样，我开始在意自己的打扮。
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15．But as I progressed to high school, advertising became a big influence. (para. 3)
但从高中开始，广告产生了很大的影响。
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16．Boys began to notice girls, and all the girls wanted to look good. (para. 3)
男生开始留意女生，每个女生都想打扮得漂漂亮亮。
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17．The clothing in high school became something that defined you; it identified you with a certain group. (para. 3)
高中时衣着界定你的身份，决定你和那些人交往。
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18．Wearing Abercrombie jeans meant you were the preppy all-American girl, a Guess shirt meant you were the snobby rich girl, and anything worse or less than that was unacceptable. (para. 3)
穿Abercrombie牌的牛仔裤说明你是典型的美国女生，干净利落；穿Guess的衬衫说明你是富家千金，自命不凡，差一些的衣服都是不可接受的。
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19．In college, advertising hit me in a different way. (para. 4)
上大学后，广告又用另外的方式影响着我。
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20．College is a place where typically no one knows you at first, so you can be whoever you want to be. (para. 4)
大学里，最初通常没有人认识你，所以你想怎样穿戴都行。
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21．There are so many students and such a variety of people that clothing begins to define you less and less and your personality begins to define you more and more. (para. 4)
学生很多，而且什么人都有，以穿戴看人的情况越来越少，以个性判断人的情况越来越多。
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22．Everyone is growing and changing and beginning to learn who they really are. (para. 4)
每个人都在成长、改变，开始为真正的自己定位。
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23．Yet my friends and I still turn to advertising, now not only to stay in fashion but more so to find our own style. (para. 4)
我和朋友们依然关注广告，不过现在不只是为了紧跟时尚，更想找到自己的风格。
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24．In my quest for identity, the style of clothing I choose reflects me.
在寻找个性的过程中，我所选择的衣服样式反映出我的为人。
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25．It shows my personality and shows what type of person I am. (para. 4)
它显示了我的个性，表明我是哪种类型的人。
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26．Despite my choice to have my clothing reflect and not define me, I remain a victim of advertising. (para. 5)
虽然我决心让衣服成为我的镜子，而不是代表我本人，但广告还是在左右着我。
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27．Although I look to ads for the upcoming styles, I am still affected by the underlying images behind them. (para. 5)
虽然我看广告的目的是想了解最新潮流，可我还是会受到广告的隐含信息的影响。
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28．Advertising reflects society and also adds to societal definitions. (para. 5)
广告反映社会，也丰富了社会的标准。
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29．Advertisers show us people around us, yet they choose only a certain look. (para. 5)
广告给我们看到的是我们身边的人，但他们只选择特定的类型。
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30．By showing us just these people, they are defining those few as the beautiful people. (para. 5)
通过展现这一类人，广告将这极少数人定义为俊男美女。
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30．Advertising feeds off human insecurities and makes us want to be like these beautiful people. (para. 5)
广告利用人们不甘人后的心理，怂恿我们去学这些俊男美女。
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31．Our insecurities with wanting to be popular and wanting to be loved are used against us.
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我们想出名、想得到拥戴的焦急心理，正好被用来对付我们自己。
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32．Society fosters the fascination that we should not be who we are, and advertisers use this to influence us to believe certain messages. (para. 5)
人们向往变成别的模样，社会又推波助澜，广告就利用这些来影响我们去相信某些信息。

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33．If we do not look like the models, we are not beautiful. (para. 5)
要是穿戴与模特有差距，就不能算漂亮。
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34．If we are not thin and curvy we are not attractive. (para. 5)
要是不苗条，曲线不美，就没有吸引力。
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35．Even if we have great personalities, most people will not like us if we are not physically beautiful. (para. 5)
要是其貌不扬，就算性格再好，大多数人还是不会喜欢我们。
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36．Advertisers use our weaknesses to tell us what is new, what we should be like, what is cool, and what is hot. (para. 6)
广告利用我们的弱点告诉我们什么最新潮，我们应该是什么样子，什么最酷，什么最热门。

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37．Because human nature makes us want to be popular and glamorous, we follow the lead ads give us. (para. 6)
我们都想出名，富有魅力，这是人性使然，所以我们会对广告言听计从。

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38．Is it the victim's fault for believing, or the fault of society for allowing advertisers to do so? (para. 6)
怪人们相信广告吗？还是该怪社会纵容广告误导人？

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39．These are the questions I often ask myself as I enter the field of marketing. (para. 6)
我进入营销业之后，经常考虑的就是这些问题。

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41．How will we ever know unless we step back and stop reading magazines and watching television? (para. 6)
要想找出答案，我们就得退一步，不再读杂志，不再看电视。

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42．Until then, I will remain a victim of advertising.

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43．And so will almost everyone else. (para. 6)
不然的话，我还是摆脱不了广告的左右。别的人也是如此。

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