翻译考试双语：韩国男士的花样美男之路

翻译考试双语：韩国男士的"花样美男"之路考试用书

In the male-dominated society of South Korea, men who apply makeup every morning are fast becoming as commonplace as men in other places who shave every morning.
在男性占社会主导地位的韩国，男士每天早上化妆正迅速变成一件平常事，就如同其他国家的男士每天早上剃须一样。

Two years of compulsory military service and centuries of Confucian culture have imbued South Korean men with a traditional sense of masculinity. But many are beginning to embrace a new version of handsome.
由于受两年的兵役的影响和几百年来儒家文化的熏陶，韩国男士被灌输了传统的男子汉观念。然而如今很多人开始接受了对于英俊的新定义。

In the late 1990s, South Korea lifted a ban on Japanese products, including comics, which idolized beautiful men who were less masculine than tradition expected. They had softer looks with small and slender facial features. Men like them were called “flower men” and appeared in Korean dramas and movies.
上世纪九十年代末，韩国解禁了漫画等日本舶来品。日本漫画中十分推崇那些比传统男性形象更为阴柔的美男子。他们的五官小巧纤细，面容柔美。这样的男子被称为“花样美男”，在韩国影视剧中频频亮相。

Today, TV commercials in the country feature attractive male superstars with heavy makeup. The mainstream media advocate perfect skin as a necessity for finding a job and a wife.
如今在韩国，电视广告中常常出现画着浓妆的魅力男星。主流媒体也一直宣传无暇肌肤是求职和成家的必要条件。

“My skin wasn’t bad, but the media constantly sends the message that skin is one of the most important things, so I wanted to take care of it,” 27-year-old Kim John-hoon, who works in the technology industry, told AP.
27岁的金正勋在科技行业工作，他在接受美联社采访时表示：“我的皮肤不差，但媒体不断传递这样一个信息，皮肤是头等大事之一，所以我想打理一下。”

The country accounted for nearly 21 percent of global men’s cosmetics sales last year, totaling $495.5 million (3.08 billion yuan), according to Euromonitor International, a market research firm. That makes South Korea the largest market for men’s cosmetics.
据欧睿信息咨询公司的一项调查显示，去年，韩国男性化妆品市场销售额为4.955亿美元（合30.8亿人民币），约占全球男性化妆品销量的21%。韩国也因此成为全球最大的男性化妆品市场。

But many men use makeup not because they want to appear more feminine, but because they want a more crisp, clean look in order to get ahead in the country’s competitive job environment.
而许多男士之所以使用化妆品并不是为了让自己看上去女性化，而是希望拥有更干净利落的形象，以便在韩国竞争激烈的职场中拔得头筹。