2012考研英語閱讀真題：考研英語（二）第2篇

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　　Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the color, yet it is pervasive in our young girls' lives. It is not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls' identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls' lives and interests。

　　Girls' attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What's more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses. When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolized femininity. It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years。

　　I had not realized how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children's behavior: wrong. Turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularized as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s。

　　Trade publications counseled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a "third stepping stone" between infant wear and older kids' clothes. It was only after "toddler" became a common shoppers' term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences – or invent them where they did not previously exist。

　　穿粉紅色好看：成年女性記不起對于顏色的困惑了，然而，年輕女孩普遍有這個(gè)問題。不是粉紅本來不好，但是它是彩虹的一小份而已。雖然從某個(gè)程度上來說有助于烘托女孩，但它也會(huì)不斷融化女孩們的特征。那么它不但能在天真的女孩之間而且還能在天真的證據(jù)事實(shí)前提供那種連接，甚至兩歲的孩子。四周看看，我絕望的看到對于女孩生活和興趣格外缺乏想象力。

　　女孩喜歡粉色似乎不可避免，似乎DNA編碼就是這樣，但根據(jù)Jo Paoletti，美國馬里蘭大學(xué)美國研究副教授的說法，情況不是這樣的。20世紀(jì)初期前的孩子們原來根本不分顏色:在家用洗衣機(jī)問世之前的時(shí)代里,所有的嬰兒都穿白色,因?yàn)橐屢路蓛舻奈ㄒ环椒ㄊ侵蠓幸路? 還有, 那時(shí)的男孩女孩都穿中性的衣服。當(dāng)托兒所色彩引入后，粉紅色當(dāng)時(shí)被認(rèn)為是更有男性特征的顏色，紅色的清淡版和力量相關(guān)。藍(lán)色象征著女性，代表圣母瑪利亞，堅(jiān)貞與忠誠。到了80年代中期，年齡增大和兩性差別成為幼兒用品市場的主要銷售戰(zhàn)略時(shí)，粉色變得很受女孩們的喜歡，成為定義女性特征的一部分，至少在起初的那幾個(gè)關(guān)鍵年份女孩們都這樣。

　　我原來沒有意識(shí)到市場營銷趨勢對我們觀念的巨大影響，比如什么是孩子的天性，包括他們的心理發(fā)展這種核心信念。帶上你的小孩兒。我認(rèn)為這個(gè)短語至少是博士級別的專家對幼兒行為幾年的研究才發(fā)明的語言：錯(cuò)啦。根據(jù)幼兒消費(fèi)歷史學(xué)家Daniel Cook的說法，這個(gè)短語是三十年代流行起來的，是制衣商進(jìn)行市場營銷的花招。

　　貿(mào)易出版物給百貨大樓提議，要增加銷售，應(yīng)該在嬰兒服裝和兒童服裝之間創(chuàng)造"第三過渡階段"服裝，這個(gè)詞成為"蹣跚學(xué)步者"之后的常見銷售術(shù)語，后來演變?yōu)槿藗儚V泛接受的孩子發(fā)展階段。把孩子，或者成年人分類成更小的種類已經(jīng)證實(shí)是條必定成功的方法來擴(kuò)大利潤。對市場進(jìn)行細(xì)分的最簡單的方法就是擴(kuò)大性別差異---或者創(chuàng)造出一些原來就沒有的差異。

　　重點(diǎn)單詞

　　singular['si?gjul?]adj. 個(gè)人的，單數(shù)的，獨(dú)一的，唯一的，非凡的

　　assumed[?'sju:md]adj. 假裝的;假定的

　　obsessed[?b'sest]adj. 著迷的

　　unavoidable[.?n?'v?id?bl]adj. 不可避免的

　　segment['segm?nt]n. 部份，瓣，弓形

　　perception[p?'sep??n]n. 感知，認(rèn)識(shí)，觀念

　　boost[bu:st]vt. 推進(jìn)，提高，增加

　　n. 推進(jìn)，增加

　　inherentlyadv. 固有地;天性地;內(nèi)在地

　　innocent['in?snt]adj. 清白的，無辜的，無害的，天真純潔的，無知的

　　slice[slais]n. 薄片，切片

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