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巧用英文称赞美女

线话英语|2011-11-04 18:49:51

在汉语中我们经常用天姿国色、倾国倾城,、沉鱼落雁,、闭月羞花等等来形容美女，英语中用来形容女孩子的单词和短语也不少, 一起看看吧。
1. 天姿国色：one can use heavenly beauty (e.g, She is a heavenly beauty/ she is heavenly/She is heavenly beautiful), angelic, unearthly (e.g. unearthly beautiful), and goddess (as in “She is a goddess.”)
Similar to 天姿国色 and 独一无二, 无以伦比, words that come to mind at the spur of the moment include unique, one-of-a-kind, unsurpassing/unsurpassable, has no equal, unequaled, incomparable, unmatched/unmatchable, second to none, and unrivaled.
例如：Her beauty is unequaled/unmatchable/unique in all the land.
注意：把天姿国色译成 “ surpassing beauty.”或“ Reigning beauty” 是错的。

2. 沉鱼落雁：Drop-dead gorgeous. Drop-dead means extremely. (=You can die on the spot due to the shock of seeing such stunning beauty.) A face one could die for, stunning/Stunningly beautiful.
注意：“ She could charm the birds from the trees” 的意思并不是她有沉鱼落雁之容，而是她能用甜蜜的嗓音、话语劝说小鸟从树上落下，或者她有魔法让小鸟从树上落下的意思。
“…beauty to shut out the moon …make fish sink and geese settle…” are good translations, but not what we are looking for here.

3. 倾国倾城.："The face that launched a thousand ships" is a reference to Helen of Troy in Homer’s Iliad. 荷马史诗中的特洛伊的海伦.In the Epic, Helen is the femme-fatale that caused the fall of Troy. (femme-fatale 致命的女人 or 红颜祸水. )
例如： She has a face that could launch a thousand ships.

4. 秀色可餐：可用 “she is a dish”, although that is considered rather vulgar.
其他说法：delectable, luscious, mouth-watering,

5. 养眼：a feast for the eyes/ a sight for sore eyes

6. 出水芙蓉： Venus rising from the sea.(also known as: Venus on a half shell)

7. 她很丰满：There are lots of English words for that!
例如：She is stacked/ well stacked. 这是俚语，在正式场合中最好避免使用。
其他说法：She has a great figure/an hourglass figure. She is curvaceous, well-built, well-proportioned, shapely, statuesque,…

8. 秀气，高雅，有气质：elegant, classy, refined, graceful, cultured, chic, majestic, exquisite, polished…

9. 性感：sexy, sensual, sensuous, seductive, hot, titillating, erotic, voluptuous

副词形容程度：
1. She is a woman of uncompromising beauty and elegance.
Uncompromising.
adj. Unwilling to grant concessions or negotiate; inflexible
不妥协的, 强硬的, 不让步的
In the context above, it means 100%.
2. She is hauntingly beautiful.
Haunting adj. Continually recurring to the mind; unforgettable: a haunting melody. 常浮现于脑海中的, 不易忘怀的

其他相关说法：
Captivating To attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence 迷住,
Ravishing Extremely attractive; entrancing.令人陶醉的, 迷人的, 引人入胜的
Enchanting To attract and delight; entrance. 使迷惑
Bewitching To captivate completely; entrance.使销魂, 使陶醉
Stunning Of a strikingly attractive appearance.足以使人晕倒的,
Charming alluring or pleasing吸引力, 魅力

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