小故事

Packaging a Person
人的包装
A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person's unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment, so that the person so packaged is not a commodity but a human being, lively and lovely.
人如商品需要包装，但切忌包装过头。稍许夸张包装，只要展示了个性的独特品质，并无害处。要在随意与自然中表现人的个性美，重要的是认识自己。包装的高手在于懂得如何不留痕迹，将外在的修饰与内在的特性浑然一体，这时你不再是商品，而是充实生动的人。
A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work you are unique in your natural qualities; and your attractiveness and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been through plains mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self-satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth. There is no need to make use of hair dyeing. The snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder's company is like reading a thick book of deluxe edition that attracts one so much as to be unwilling to part with.
青年特别是女性拥有美丽和充盈的生命力而光彩照人，这是上帝赐予的神采，任何涂抹都是多余的败笔。然而青春在打个盹的时间里就过去。中年的包装主要是修复岁月的磨痕，如果中年的生命生气勃勃，保有自信，积极开拓，你将拥有无与伦比的内在气度，你依然魅力散发。于是老年人，在你真正生活之后，如果你生命的河流沿着生命的指引的轨道流过了平原高山和丛林，那么你是美的。这种呈现出安详与淡泊。不必要去染白发，老人的白发像高山积雪，有中仙境之美。人该年轻时就年轻，该年老是就年老，这是自然同步，这是自然和谐统一。和谐就是美，反之就是丑。和老年人在一起就像读一本厚厚的精装书，魅力无穷，令人爱不释手。
As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.
人只要真正找到了自己，就找到了品牌。就找到了恰当的包装。

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. make up
（给…）化妆；（为…）打扮；
eg. I don't like to see women making up in public.
我不喜欢看见女人在公开场合化妆打扮。
eg. I can't be bothered to make up my face.
我懒得化妆。
2. in a flash
转瞬；一瞬间；
eg. In a flash, the truth came to him.
突然间，他明白了真相。
eg. In a flash, he thought he foresaw the result of this thing.
刹那间，他觉得他已经预见到了这件事的结局。
3. make use of
使用；利用；
eg. Not all nursery schools make use of the opportunities open to them.
并不是所有的托儿所都能抓住他们面临的机会。
eg. As to intelligence, the boy has more than he can possibly make use of.
至于那男孩的才智，多得他都用不完。
4. in step with
（想法、意见等）与…一致；
eg. I hope my ideas are in step with public opinion.
我希望我的想法跟公众舆论是一致的。
eg. His lifestyle is not really in step with the times.
他的生活方式与时代不太合拍。
5. in harmony with
融洽，和睦；
eg. His ideas were no longer in harmony with ours.
他同我们的想法不再一致了。
eg. Humans can only achieve ultimate health by living in harmony with nature.
人只有与自然和谐一致才能健康。
6. as long as
只要；
eg. As long as I deliver the goods, my boss is very happy.
只要我做好本职工作，我的老板就很高兴。
eg. I don't actually mind being sampled as long as people give credit where it's due.
只要人们在适当处标明出处，我其实并不在乎自己的音乐被人节录。