讲解

回顾

第一个it没含义，强调句的搭配，之后的都是pink。

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.

生词

• intrinsically adv. 从本质上来说；跟本地
• a tiny slice of…  ……中的一小片；……当中的一小部分
• celebrate  v. 庆祝；颂扬，赞美，歌颂
• in one way  在某一个方面，从某一部分/某一个方面来说
• repeatedly  adv. 重复地；再三地
• firmly  adv. 坚定地；坚决地；坚固地；强有力地
• fuse  v. 熔化 n. 保险丝
• fuse A to B  把A和B熔合在一起
• identity  n. 身份；特性
• appearance  n. 出现，露面；外貌，外表

解析

1. 找谓语动词：is not/is/is/may celebrate/fuses
2. 断开：通过标点和连接词断开长难句
   1. 【主句】句1：It is not hat pink is intrinsically bad,
   2. 【并列】句2：but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and,
   3. 【插入】句3：though it may celebrate girlhood in one way,
   4. 【并列】句4：it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls’ identity to appearance.
3. 重点：
   1. 断开长难句： 通过标点和连接词断开长难句。整个句子通过but、and并列了3件事，并且句子中插入了though引出的让步状语从句。
   2. 四个it：第一个it是构成强调句的搭配it is…that…，无指代；余下三个it均指代前半句中提到的单数名词pink。
4. 翻译：并不是粉色本身不好，而是它只是七色彩虹中那么一丝而已。虽说粉色在某种程度上能为少女时代添色，但它一而再地，强有力地将女孩儿特质与其外表相熔合。

预习

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.

生词

• amplifying adj. 放大的
• marketing n. 促销，营销 v. 推销，促销
• strategy n. 策略，行动计划
• inherently adj. 内在地，固有地

解析

1. 找谓语动词：was/became/came/began/defined
2. 断开：when/that/when/逗号
   1. 【主句】句1：It was not until the mid-1980s,
   2. 【时状】句2：when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy,
   3. 句3：that pink fully came into its own,
   4. 句4：when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
3. 强调句：句首的it was not until …
4. 翻译：
   1. 它不只是在二十世纪八十年代中期开始，当放大的年龄和性区别变成一种主要的儿童的营销策略，粉色完全变成他们拥有的，当粉色开始成为对女孩们固有地吸引力，被定义为女人的她们的部分，至少在最初关键的几年里是这样。
   2. 直到20世纪80年代中期，当放大年龄和性别差异成为一种主要的儿童营销策略时，粉色才开始充分发挥作用，它开始对女孩产生内在的吸引力，至少在最初的关键几年里，粉色是将女孩定义为女性的一部分。