[比基尼流行的时代]
These days, you're not anyone unless you pose poolside in your bikini. Not a day goes by when a celebrity isn't pictured on the beach in theirs, from 25-year-old Taylor Swift to Dame Helen Mirren when she was in her 50s. 2013 will go down in history as the year Beyonce wore that yellow two-piece for an H&M ad campaign.
现在,除非你身穿比基尼在泳池边摆拍一张照,否则便不会成名.从25岁的泰勒·斯威夫特到50多岁还拍比基尼照的海伦·米伦夫人,没有哪一天没有名人身穿比基尼在沙滩上拍照的.2013年这一年也因碧昂斯身穿两件式黄色比基尼为H&M做广告活动而载入了史册.
【比基尼的文化含义】
比起其他服饰,比基尼更突出地超越了其本来的功能,成为一种文化概念的语言.
It took 15 years for the bikini to be accepted in the United States. In 1951 bikinis were banned from the Miss World Contest. In 1957, however, Brigitte Bardot's bikini in And God Created Woman created a market for the swimwear in the US, and by 1963, the movie Beach Party, starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, led a wave of films that made the bikini a pop-culture symbol.
美国接受比基尼用了15年.1951年,比基尼在世界小姐选美比赛中被禁止.然而,在1957年,《上帝创造女人》中碧姬·芭杜的比基尼开拓了美国的泳衣市�.钡�1963年,安妮特·富尼切洛和法兰基·阿瓦隆主演的电影《海滩派对》引领了一批电影热潮,使比基尼成为一种流行文化的象征.
People who are familiar with the history of Bikini Atoll may find the etymology and use of the word "bikini" for a garment as inappropriate, as its tongue-in-cheek "explosive" reputation effectively reduces the significance of a serious humanitarian crisis to a mere popular culture sex symbol in the minds of most people.
熟悉比基尼岛历史的人可能会觉得这一语源以及将"比基尼"一词用作服饰不大合适,因为其玩笑式的"爆炸性"名声有效降低了严肃的人道主义危机的意义,在大多数人看来,这只是流行文化中的性符号.
The bikini is a sex symbol that often makes the woman wearing it significantly more attractive in the eyes of men. Women often wear a bikini to impress men or to fit in with the other women in bikinis. Many magazines market themselves by placing a woman in a bikini on the cover. Men often just buy the magazine for the picture of the woman and women may buy it to learn how to look like the woman on the cover.
比基尼是性的象征,在男人的眼里,穿比基尼的女人通常更具吸引力.女人通常穿比基尼来给男人留下印象,或者与其她穿比基尼的女性表现一致.许多杂志将比基尼女孩放在首页进行推销.男性通常仅仅是因为杂志上女性的照片才购买,而女性购买杂志或许是为了学习怎样让自己更像封面女郎.
Because of the influence of the media, women try to lose weight before the summer so they can have the ideal "bikini body." These weight loss goals are often unrealistic and unhealthy. The image of the bikini in the media sometimes brings about eating disorders in people striving to have the "perfect" body. In reality, most women do not achieve their weight loss goals, but still wear bikinis anyway. That's why there are different styles of bikinis, in different sizes and in different colors to suit every woman's body type.
