For thin, you can describe somebody as slender or slim.

对于瘦者，你可以称其为苗条的或是纤细的。

Well, for the past few centuries we have defined beauty not just as health and youth and symmetry that we're biologically programmed to admire, but also as tall, slender figures, and femininity and white skin.

在过去的几个世纪里，美的定义不仅仅只包括健康，年轻和身材匀称这些我们出于生物本能去赞美的元素，还包括高挑，苗条的体型， 富有女性气质，白色皮肤这些特征。

If somebody called me slender or slim, I'd be flattered.

如果有人说我是苗条的或是纤细的，我会感到受宠若惊。

I think this suit displays your nice figure.

我觉得这件衣出了您苗条的身材。

The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white.

她妹妹凯瑟琳是个苗条而俗气的女人，年纪三十上下，浓密的短短的红，上粉搽得像牛奶样白。

I'm trying to keep a slim figure. You know?

我正在努力保持苗条的身材。你知道吗？

To be fashionable was to be tall, skinny, with long, shiny hair.

要想变得时尚，就意味着要身型高挑，苗条，拥有亮丽的长。

One reason is that society rewards people who are thin and healthy-looking.

原因之是社会会奖励那些看起来苗条健康的人。

I know another way to stay slim.

我知道另种保持苗条的方法。

Why must it be only for those on the thin size?

为什么只只卖给有那些身材苗条的人呢？

STEP 6 If, like many people, trying to attract a mate was your main motivation for staying slim when you were single, find new inspiration: your health.

如果像很多人样，想要吸引伴侣是你单身时保持苗条的主要动力，现在找个新的动力：你的健康。

I used to be thin, and now I'm getting fat.

我以前挺苗条的，现在却长胖了。

" So maybe one day we can indeed develop a pill which keeps us thin."

“因此，或许某天我们真的可以研制出让我们保持苗条的药丸。”

Okay, what is your secret? How can you eat like that and keep your figure?

你究竟有什么秘诀？怎么做到像你这样吃东西还能保持苗条的身材的？

With your slimfigure you'd look good in anything.

凭借你的苗条身材, 你穿什么都好看。

She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face, and fond of dancing.

它应该有种轻柔的像淅淅沥沥下雨的嗓音，看起来像位苗条的姑娘，边堆着棕色的长，喜爱跳舞。

Taking it up now, it's a dream. And so hard! It's also transformed her physique, though some online critics took her to task for her slimmed-down frame.

进行到现在，“这是个梦。所以辛苦! ”这也改变了她的体型，尽管些网上的评论家批评她过于苗条的身材。

The authorities who argue for moderation in our eating habits tend to be individuals who are relatively lean and healthy; they define moderation as what works for them.

主张饮食适度的权威人士往往是比较苗条、比较健康的人，他们把适度定义为对他们有用的东西。

And I can't just judge the book by its cover and assume that someone that is larger is unhealthy and someone that is lean is healthy, right?

我不能仅仅凭外表来判断，个体型较大的人不健康，个体型较苗条的人健康，对吧？

I'm sure most of you are looking to put on some muscle or at the very least, lose weight and get that elusive “lean” look.

我相信你们大多数人都想增加些肌肉，或者至少减肥，达到所谓的“苗条”的身材。