夏天到了，你練出夢寐以求的馬甲線了嗎？
最近，外媒又盯上了泡健身房的中國女性，并表示，現在的中國女性都已經不追求以瘦為美了，而是開始練馬甲線。
相信你走在路上，一定被問到過一個深入靈魂的問題……
CNN也注意到了中國街頭巷尾這些推銷游泳健身的人們：
Along the streets of Beijing, flyers advertising newly built gyms are passed into everyone's hands.
在北京街頭巷尾，推銷新開健身房的傳單被塞到每個行人手中。
With prices ranging from 1,000 RMB to 19,000 RMB a year, salespeople are ready to explain the advantages of their gym's membership card over the competition.
銷售員競相向人們解釋成為會員的好處，健身房會員卡的價格在每年1000元到1.9萬元之間。
文章稱，健身并非傳統文化的一部分，但如今，“馬甲線”已經成為人們熱議的話題：
Exercise isn't traditionally part of Chinese culture, barring some aunties square-dancing in the park and a few tai chi practitioners on the sidelines. But that's changing now, with the hashtag #MajiaXian going viral on Weibo, China's Twitter.
傳統上看，除了那些在公園跳廣場舞的大媽和一些在旁邊練太極的人，鍛煉并非中國文化的一部分。但如今，這種狀況正在改變，“馬甲線”已成為新浪微博的熱搜話題。
Because the outline of well-toned abdominal muscles looks like a vest, Chinese call abs "majia" -- or "vest" -- and "xian" -- or "lines," and this year they have become the goal of many women's pre-summer workouts.
由于健美的腹肌輪廓形似一件背心，中國人稱之為“馬甲線”，這已經成為很多女性今夏的健身目標。
abdominal adj. 腹部的
看到周圍有人擁有6塊腹肌后，時裝設計師梁媛（音）開始為這個目標健身。
She bought a gym membership as a birthday gift for herself. Friends and family members have started to call her a "fitness monster" because she goes to the gym twice a day, seven days in a row.
她給自己買了一張健身房會員卡作為生日禮物。親朋好友開始叫她“健身狂人”，因為她每天去健身房兩次，一周七天不停歇。
"I have done something I didn't even dare to dream in the past, and now I achieved something I thought I was unable to do."
她說：“我完成了過去想都不敢想的事，實現了曾以為難以企及的目標。”
"I want to challenge myself," she added.
她補充說：“我想要挑戰(zhàn)自己?！?/p>
過去，“以瘦為美”是不少中國女性追求的目標，有時候這樣的目標卻會使得女性走向極端，對健康和自尊都造成影響。
Hou Shiyao, CEO of a new women-only gym called Fit 4 Life in Beijing, said that most of the women who come to her studio aim to lose weight from the start. "They want to be like a skeleton or a piece of paper."
北京一家新成立的女性健身房Fit 4 Life的首席執(zhí)行官侯詩瑤說，一開始大部分女性來健身是想減肥，“她們希望看起來骨感或瘦成一張紙?！?/p>
很多時尚潮流都證實了這種迷戀（attest to this obsession）。
The A4 social media challenge in 2017 featured women posting pictures of themselves covering their waists with an A4 sheet of paper.
2017年，“A4腰”挑戰(zhàn)在中國的社交媒體上一度風靡，女性紛紛上傳自己用一張A4紙遮住腰部的照片。
最先發(fā)起“A4腰挑戰(zhàn)”的袁姍姍 資料圖
還有著名的反手摸肚臍：
鎖骨放硬幣：
以及之后的i6腿……
但現如今，這樣的情況有了很大的改觀。對一些中國女性來說，去健身房的初衷已改變，因為她們發(fā)現體形能通過增肌而非減重來塑造。
Many workout-obsessed women are increasingly realizing that no matter how hard they try, they won't be supermodels, and acknowledging that physiques can vary due to a number of factors. This is an important step on their path to self-acceptance.
許多熱衷于健身的女性越發(fā)意識到，無論如何努力自己都不會成為超模，個人體形因人而異，取決于多種因素。這是她們在自我接受的路上踏出的關鍵一步。
For many, the aim of losing weight has transformed into the desire to be the best version of themselves.
許多人的減肥目的已轉變?yōu)槌蔀椤白詈玫淖约骸薄?/p>
侯詩瑤說：
"Eventually, you will accept who you are and live peacefully with your disadvantages," Hou said.
“最終，你將接受自身并與你的缺點和平相處。”
（來源：中國日報雙語新聞編輯部）
