普通女性每天至少会“嫌弃”自己八次

The average woman criticises herself at least eight times a day, a study has found.

研究显示，普通女性每天至少会“嫌弃”自己八次。

A worrying trend of negativity among women was revealed by a survey of 2,000 women - with one in seven women admitting to criticising themselves regularly throughout their day.

Most of those surveyed wanted to lose weight, and image-based criticisms were by farthe most prevalent.

Not earning enough money and deliberately deflecting compliments were other commonput-downs.

Selfies and social media platforms such as Instagram were blamed as being a driving force behind today's visual culture.

Women are bombarded with images of perfection while at the same time expected to balance both working lives and family lives, which experts concluded led to women'scritical relationships with themselves.

Lifestyle judgements were also found to be prevalent, including not earning enough money or having the right job.

Today shectic and visually-driven world has meant that we're seeing a rise in women being self-critical, from the way they look to the way they feel at work, said Zoe Griffiths, Head of Public Health and Programme at Weight Watchers, which conducted the survey.

Our research has shown that being unkind to ourselves has been an underlying theme for women for many years, but a set of very modern cultural conditions have increased the intensity of this unkindness which are hard to avoid.

At Weight Watchers we know that to adopt a healthy lifestyle it is important to build a better relationship with yourself in order to make a positive change.'

1 deliberately

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

•  The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。

• They deliberately shifted off theargument.他们故意回避这个论点。

2deflecting

（使）偏斜， （使）偏离， （使）转向( deflect的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• A variety of mechanical surfaces havebeen employed for deflecting the exhaust jets of solid-propellant rockets. 人们已经用过各种类型的机械控制面来偏转固体推进剂火箭的排气流。

• If she made a leading statement, he wasexpert deflecting her into more impersonal channels. 只要她一开口，他就会巧妙地把她的话题转到与个人无关的问题上去。

3 hectic

adj.肺病的；消耗热的；发热的；闹哄哄的

参考例句：

• I spent a very hectic Sunday.我度过了一个忙乱的星期天。

• The two days we spent there wereenjoyable but hectic.我们在那里度过的两天愉快但闹哄哄的。

4 underlying

adj.在下面的，含蓄的，潜在的

参考例句：

• The underlying theme of the novel is veryserious.小说隐含的主题是十分严肃的。

• This word has its underlying meaning.这个单词有它潜在的含义。

5 intensity

n.强烈，剧烈；强度；烈度

参考例句：

• I didn't realize the intensity ofpeople's feelings on this issue.我没有意识到这一问题能引起群情激奋。

• The strike is growing in intensity.罢工日益加剧。