做真美女也不能太瘦啊

 美眉，你有没有因为自己太胖而讨厌过自己呢？是不是天天不敢多吃呢？天天喊着要减肥，要绝食，保持自我很重要，做一个真美女！其实太瘦不是什么好事。

These are not generally kids who can scream and yell¹ and say, “I hate you, why did you do this to me?” They’re very sweet, and they’re very kind. And they’re parent pleasers. And so they are aggressive in the sense that they are driving the knife deeper into the family as the family watches them die. But they are very sweet, and very kind, and very quiet about the process.

At age twenty-one, Eleena Melamed has also paid a heavy emotional² price. A gifted dancer, she was told to lose weight at age twelve.

I remember having a teacher come up to me and pinch³ my back, pinch the skin on my back and say, “What is this? Are you drinking milk? You know you need to lose weight.”

Eleena eliminated⁴ fat from her diet. In time, she became anorexic .

“My anorexic year,” I call it. I was the happiest I had ever been in my life. I was getting all the good parts in our performances at the school. I was getting all the attention. I was not being ignored anymore. When I was heavy, I was ignored instead of nurtured⁵. And when I was really thin I, you know, all of a sudden, was nurtured and taken care of. And the teachers loved me, and they cared about me, and it was like I was a whole new person.

After starving herself for over a year, Eleena lost control and began to eat.

Gaining weight was for me the worst thing. I was just so ashamed of my body. I felt like I was the biggest failure and the weakest person, just the worst person. I remember picking up a knife from the kitchen and starting to cut myself on my arms, on my legs. I had so much pain inside of me, and so much hatred⁶ and animosity towards myself. That feeling the pain and making it real pain – as far as being able to see the blood and see the cut – it was calming. I did that for a long time.

1 yell   

vi./n.号叫，叫喊

参考例句：

• This gave them a chance to yell.这给了他们大声喊叫的机会。
• When his schoolmate made the last goal,the boy gave out with an untrammeled yell.那个男孩在他的同学踢进最后一球时不禁纵声欢呼。

2 emotional   

adj.令人动情的；易动感情的；感情(上)的

参考例句：

• Emotional people don't stop to calculate.感情容易冲动的人做事往往不加考虑。
• This is an emotional scene in the play.这是剧中动人的一幕。

3 pinch   

n.捏，撮，困苦，偷窃；vt.掐，使...困苦，偷窃

参考例句：

• She would pinch on food in order to spend on clothing.她过去常把伙食费省下来买衣服。
• He put a pinch of salt on his food.他在自己的食物上撒了一撮盐。

4 eliminated   

v.排除( eliminate的过去式和过去分词 )；消除；除掉；干掉

参考例句：

• He was eliminated in the first round of voting. 他在第一轮投票中被淘汰。
• Her misspelling of that word eliminated her from the contest. 因为她把那个单词写错了，所以不能参加比赛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 nurtured   

养育( nurture的过去式和过去分词 )； 培育； 滋长； 助长

参考例句：

• She is looking fondly at the plants he had nurtured. 她深情地看着他培育的植物。
• Any latter-day Einstein would still be spotted and nurtured. 任何一个未来的爱因斯坦都会被发现并受到培养。

6 hatred   

n.憎恶，憎恨，仇恨

参考例句：

• He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
• The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。