哪個地方的人最愛漂亮？可能很多人會想到韓國，那里無論老少，幾乎人人都先化妝才出街。

不過當(dāng)?shù)亟鼇硐破鹨粓觥疤用撌`”運(yùn)動，部分女性開始反思是否人人都要追求同一種美的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)：皮膚白、大眼睛、高鼻梁等。更有網(wǎng)友在社交網(wǎng)站上傳摧毀化妝品的照片或視頻，以此表明自己要擺脫日夜化妝的勞累人生。

South Korean women are destroying cosmetics and cutting their hair short to fight back against unrealistic beauty ideals in what is being dubbed the "escape corset" movement.

韓國正掀起一場名為“逃脫束縛”的運(yùn)動，許多韓國女性扔掉化妝品、剪短頭發(fā)，以此抗議對美不切實(shí)際的追求。

corset ['k??s?t] n.（婦女用的）束腹，緊身褡

In posts across Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms, women have been denouncing the use of cosmetics and a culture that pressures as many as one in three women to undergo some form of plastic surgery.

在Ins和推特等社交媒體平臺上，韓國女性開始反對使用化妝品，并且對迫使多達(dá)三分之一的女性接受不同程度整容手術(shù)文化氛圍進(jìn)行抨擊。

今年5月，韓國一家知名電視臺的新聞主播成為第一位戴眼鏡出鏡的女主播。此舉在韓國引發(fā)熱議：女性是不是時刻都要完美無瑕？

One post on Instagram by user 6_feminist_9 confessed that she had low self-esteem and felt she had to use makeup as a mask just to leave the house.

Ins用戶6_feminist_9在一個貼子里承認(rèn)自己自卑，出門前必須化妝來“武裝”自己。

"I liked pretty things. I wanted to be pretty. I hated my ugly face," she posted.

“我喜歡漂亮的事物，想變得漂亮。我討厭自己丑陋的面孔?！?/p>

"Self-esteem came and went. I was always putting on makeup. I did not go to school on days when I did not have good makeup.

“自尊心總是時不時爆發(fā)一下。我總是在化妝，如果哪天妝化的不好，我就不去上學(xué)?！?/p>

現(xiàn)在，她的想法發(fā)生了改變。

"But now you do not have to. It does not have to be pretty. In the meantime, I took off the mask that plagued me and ruined my life."

“但是現(xiàn)在你沒有必要那么做，不是非得那么漂亮。同時，我摘掉了自己的面具，它困擾我許久，毀掉了我的生活?！?/p>

plague [ple?g] vt.折磨，使苦惱

Another user said: "Today is one month since I decided to cut my hair and take a bath!"

另一名用戶說：“從我決定剪短頭發(fā)并且泡個澡開始，已經(jīng)有一個月了。

"Cosmetics, lenses, and clothes that are not easy to wear are now used as memorials."

“化妝品、隱形眼鏡和好看卻不好穿的衣服，現(xiàn)在都被我當(dāng)做紀(jì)念品了?！?/p>

memorial [m?'m??r??l] n.紀(jì)念物，紀(jì)念儀式

一些網(wǎng)友為表“決心”，更是在社交網(wǎng)站上傳照片或視頻，“摧毀”自己的化妝品，或把化妝品當(dāng)作顏料用來畫畫。

當(dāng)?shù)嘏榆囍窃罚ㄒ糇g，Cha Ji-won）便是其中一人。她把自己的化妝品都丟掉，每月只花4000韓元（約合人民幣24元）買保濕產(chǎn)品或潤唇膏，“我覺得自己像是重生了，一個人的精神與力量是有限的，我過去都用來擔(dān)心自己美不美，現(xiàn)在我用這些時間來讀書與做運(yùn)動?！?/p>

Beauty regimes commonly require women to spend hours applying makeup each day – often involving waking up two hours before work to do so or carrying out lengthy skincare routines that involve 10 steps or more at the end of each day.

在韓國，女性通常每天要花好幾個小時化妝。她們每天上班前要提前兩個小時起床化妝，每天睡覺前還要進(jìn)行冗長的護(hù)膚程序，一般有10多個步驟。

It is the latest development in the Asian country's exploding feminist movement in the age of #MeToo, in a country that was ranked a poor 116 out of 144 countries on gender equality by the World Economic Forum.

“逃脫束縛”運(yùn)動是在#MeToo運(yùn)動之后，韓國爆發(fā)的最新一次女權(quán)運(yùn)動。根據(jù)世界經(jīng)濟(jì)論壇的排名，韓國的性別平等狀況在144個國家中排在第116位。

The women abandoning demanding cosmetic regimens call themselves "beauty resisters" and are part of a broader push back against South Korea's highly patriarchal society which places a huge emphasis on a woman's appearance as being key to success in life.

不再化妝的女性稱自己為“美麗抵抗者”，她們以此抵制韓國高度男權(quán)的社會。韓國社會一直強(qiáng)調(diào)女性的美麗外表是人生成功的關(guān)鍵。

patriarchal society 父權(quán)社會， 男權(quán)社會

Stories about young women transforming their lives after having plastic surgery and makeovers are abound in soaps and movies, and popular on reality TV.

年輕的韓國女性在整容和化妝后過上更好生活的故事頻頻出現(xiàn)在肥皂劇和電影里，在真人秀節(jié)目中也頗受歡迎。

South Korea has a massive beauty industry and in 2017 it was estimated to be worth just over ￡10bn, according to retail researchers Mintel.

根據(jù)英敏特市場咨詢公司的數(shù)據(jù)，韓國的美容產(chǎn)業(yè)非常龐大。2017年，其美容產(chǎn)業(yè)估計價值超過100億英鎊（約合875億元人民幣）。

Seoul is the global plastic surgery capital and the wealthy neighborhood of Gangnam reportedly has 500 aesthetic centers.

首爾是全球的整容之都。據(jù)報道，富裕的江南社區(qū)有500家美容中心。

英文來源：澳大利亞廣播公司、獨(dú)立報、東方頭條

翻譯&編輯：yaning