1. Something I had always known — the way I knew my skin was the brown color of a nut rubbed repeatedly with a soft cloth, or the way I knew my own name — something I took completely for granted, "the sun is shining, the air is warm" — was not 某些我一直知道的东西——就象知道自己的皮肤像是用软布反复摩擦后的那种坚果棕色,或者就象知道我自己的名字——某种我完全把它当作理所当然的东西——"阳光灿烂,空气暖和",——居然会并非如此。
2. She lies motionless: the head seems unusually large on a skeleton body; the skin is dark yellow and hangs loosely around exaggerated bones that not even a blanket can hide; the right arm lies straight out at the side, taped cruelly to a board to secu 她一动不动地躺着:骨瘦如柴的身体使她的头显得特别大;皮肤呈暗黄色,松松地裹在嶙峋的、连毛毯也遮掩不住的骨骼上;她的右臂平伸在床边,被无情地用胶带固定在一块板上,以便能固定针头使液体滴入;左臂横放在深陷的胸部,胸口随着不均匀的呼吸一起一伏。
3. She can't eat, she has been bleeding, and her skin is a deep yellow color. 她不能吃东西,一直流血不止,皮肤也呈深黄色。"
4. Sales staff in white coats "diagnose" skin types on "computers" and blind customers with the science of damaged molecules and DNA repair. 推销人员穿着白大褂,在"电脑"上给消费者"诊断"皮肤类型,用修复受损分子和DNA这些技术来蒙蔽消费者。
5. Providing the "drugs" for this game, the industry has created new skin therapies which, they say, don't just sit on the surface but actually interact with the cells. 美容业给这一花招提供"药物",以此创造了新的皮肤疗法,还说这种疗法并不是仅停留在表面,它实际上作用于细胞层。
6. Preventing the destruction of essential proteins in the diet and allowing them to be absorbed in a state more easily utilized by the skin. 防止食物中的基本蛋白质被破坏,使其能以一种更易为皮肤所用的状态被吸收。
7. My skin tans easily. 我的皮肤一晒就黑.
8. Carefully, to avoid injuring her, I rub cream into the yellow skin, which rolls freely over the bones, feeling perfectly the outline of each bone in the back. 为了不伤着她,我小心翼翼地把护肤霜揉在她发黄的皮肤上。她的皮肤松松地在骨头上滑动,背上每块骨头的轮廓都能清楚地摸到。
9. Use an emollient for dry skin. 乾燥的皮肤要使用润肤剂.
10. Unlike a skin cell, an embryo is on its way to becoming a complete living thing: 与单个皮肤细胞不同,一个胚胎将逐渐形成一个完整的生命体: