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Jody Hubbard is a diet and nutrition expert who travels around the state to speak in middle and high schools. She primarily speaks to students in health classes, but sometimes the school will arrange for her to speak to several different groups of girls. Her biggest concern is the emphasis American culture places on thinness and the negative way that affects girls today. Jody has a Ph.D. in nutrition, but, more important, she has personal experience. Her mother taught her to diet when she was only 8 years old. Jody has created several different presentations, which she gives to different types of audiences and she tries to establish an emotional connection with the students so that they will feel comfortable asking questions or talking to her privately. She shows them pictures and images from popular culture of beautiful women and explains how computers are used to make the women look even more thin and "beautiful" than they are in real life. She describes how the definition of beauty has changed over the years and even from culture to culture. She then talks about health issues and the physical damage that can occur as a result of dieting. Finally, she addresses self-respect and the notion that a person's sense of beauty must include more than how much a person weighs. Sometimes Jody feels that she succeeds in persuading some students to stop dieting; other times she feels that she fails.

重要單詞

1. nutrition [nuˈtrɪʃn] n. 營養，營養學;營養品

“nutrition”在文中指“營養”或“營養學”。認識該單詞有利于幫助學生理解文章的核心思想。

2. arrange [əˈreɪndʒ] v. 安排;排列;整理;協商

該單詞作為動詞意義較多，在本文中指“安排”。同學們需要根據不同的語境合理判斷該單詞的含義。該單詞考頻較高。

3. emphasis [ˈemfəsɪs] n. 重點;強調;加強語氣

該單詞為�？荚~匯。在學術性議論文中經常出現，往往指“強調”某事。注意和動詞“emphasize”區分詞性。

4. negative [ˈneɡətɪv] adj. 負的;消極的;否定的 n. 否定;負數 v. 否定;拒絕

這個詞在文章作為形容詞“消極的”來使用的。往往形容一件事情所帶來的負面影響。

5. affects [buːst ] n. 感情 v. 影響;喜歡

affects這個單詞很重要。往往可以表達一個事物所產生的影響。具體在文章的含義要結合語境分析。

優秀詞組

1. more important 更加重要

2. personal experience 個人經驗

3. establish an connection with 與…建立聯系

4. self-respect 自重，自律

5. succeed in 成功;在…方面成功

全文參考翻譯

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