【原文】

What really makes me mad is the attitude towards morals. Some people are really shocked because actors are allowed to walk about the stage with little clothes on these days. But these same people are not shocked by advertisements which persuade the public to buy things which can do real harm to people, like cigarettes and alcohol for example. I think a lot of advertisements are much more immoral than so-called pornographic or dirty plays and books because they lie or at least disguise the truth.

【參考譯文】

真正讓我發(fā)狂的是人們對道德的態(tài)度。演員可以著裝暴露，在臺上走來走去，這讓一些人感到驚訝，然而同樣是這批人，卻不會因為廣告勸說公眾購買如煙酒等對他 們有害的產(chǎn)品而震驚。我認為比起那些所謂的或黃色節(jié)目和書刊，很多廣告更不道德，因為它們在說謊，至少在掩蓋真相。

【評析】考試用書

本段話共由4句話組成，后三個句子都略微偏長，但是并不復雜，所以難度一般。較難把握的幾個詞組如下：

1. little clothes連用。little如果作為“少”修飾的是不可數(shù)名詞，很明顯這里不合適，可以考慮little表示“短的”意思，意譯為“著裝暴露”。

2. pornographic對學生詞匯量要求較高。這個單詞表示“的、黃色的”。同時，dirty這里不能直譯為“臟的”，而應該采用它的引申義“下流的、的”。

3. disguise較難，表示“掩飾、掩蓋”，disguise the truth也就可以翻譯為“掩蓋真相”。