正值酷夏，您是否曾想过穿着比基尼去海滩清凉一日?说起比基尼，除了它热辣时尚的形象外，您知道比基尼是如何诞生的吗?本期的托福阅读双语材料带您一起走进精彩的比基尼世界。
[早期的比基尼]
The earliest evidence of the bikini is found on Greek urns and paintings dating from 1400 BC, which feature pictures of women wearing a two-piece garment while playing sports. Its next surviving appearance is in a fourth century AD Roman mosaic discovered in Sicily.
最早的比基尼证据是公元前1400年开始在希腊墓穴和绘画中发现的，图案上的女性身穿两件式服装在进行体育运动。接下来，比基尼的存在体现在公元4世纪西西里岛的罗马镶嵌画中。
Fast forward a few thousand years to the early 1900s and women were very conservative with their swimwear. Bathing suits completely covered the legs, arms and torso. During the 1940s, women in Europe started to reveal skin as World War II rationing pushed manufacturers to reduce the amount of fabric they used to make swimsuits. But it wasn't until 1946 that things really began to heat up.
几千年过后的20世纪早期，女性对泳衣非常保守。泳衣完全遮盖了腿部、手臂和身体。20世纪40年代期间，欧洲女性开始显露皮肤，因为二战时的定量配给使得制造商减少了制作泳衣的面料用量。但是，直到1946年，比基尼热才开始真正升温。
Women waited years for a bikini and then two came along! Parisian designer Jacques Heim debuted the atome, the world's smallest swimsuit. That same year, Louis Reard, a Parisian engineer, unveiled an even smaller suit to the world - made from just 30 inches of fabric. Named after Bikini Atoll, the Pacific Ocean site famous as the site of the first atomic bomb test, Reard hoped his invention would be just as explosive.
女性等了多年比基尼，后来一并出来了两款!巴黎设计师雅克·埃姆设计出了首款比基尼"原子"，也是当时世界最小的泳衣。同年，巴黎工程师路易斯·雷尔德向世界公布了一款更小的泳衣——仅用了30英寸的面料。雷尔德将其命名为"比基尼岛"，希望他的发明像原子弹一样具有爆炸性。比基尼岛是太平洋上的一座岛屿，因首次试爆原子弹而闻名。
[明星'带火'比基尼]
Beaches across the world tried to ban the bikini - the revelation of a woman's belly button was considered scandalous, even in the Fifties. But Reard received 50,000 fan letters proving public opinion felt otherwise. Hollywood heavyweights Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth and Bridget Bardot were soon pictured frolicking on many a beach in such a two-piece.
世界各地的沙滩曾试图禁止比基尼，因为女性露出肚脐被认为是可耻的，即使是在50年代。然而，雷尔德收到了来自5万名比基尼迷的来信，信中证实了公众的观念全然不同。好莱坞重量级人物玛丽莲·梦露、丽塔·海华斯和碧姬·芭铎不久被拍到身穿两件式泳衣在许多海滩上嬉戏。
In 1960, Bryan Hyland released the song Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Two years later, Ursula Andress emerged from the sea in a white belted bikini in Sean Connery's first James Bond movie, Dr. No, and an icon was born.
1960年，布莱恩·海兰德推出歌曲《黄色圆点花纹小小的比基尼》。两年后，乌苏拉·安德丝在肖恩·康纳利主演的首部邦德电影《诺博士》中身穿白色吊带比基尼从海面浮出，一个偶像从此诞生。
The more bikinis grew in popularity, the smaller they became. Even Victoria Beckham wasn't immune to the power of a bikini and, along with Steps and Destiny's Child, the Spice Girls chose bikini tops for many a performance in the Nineties.
随着比基尼越发流行，它们也变得越来越小。即使维多利亚·贝克汉姆也抵挡不住比基尼的魅力，辣妹组合以及Steps和天命真女组合在90年代的许多场演出中都曾选择比基尼文胸。
[比基尼流行的时代]
These days, you're not anyone unless you pose poolside in your bikini. Not a day goes by when a celebrity isn't pictured on the beach in theirs, from 25-year-old Taylor Swift to Dame Helen Mirren when she was in her 50s. 2013 will go down in history as the year Beyonce wore that yellow two-piece for an H&M ad campaign.
现在，除非你身穿比基尼在泳池边摆拍一张照，否则便不会成名。从25岁的泰勒·斯威夫特到50多岁还拍比基尼照的海伦·米伦夫人，没有哪一天没有名人身穿比基尼在沙滩上拍照的。2013年这一年也因碧昂斯身穿两件式黄色比基尼为H&M做广告活动而载入了史册。
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