以瘦为美已过时六块腹肌成中国女性新饰品_公共英语阅读理解

以瘦为美已过时六块腹肌成中国女性新饰品

“五月不减肥，六月徒伤悲。”然而很多女性发现，自己终究无法瘦成超模。如今她们又有了新的追求，那就是秀肌肉。腹肌不再是男性专利，而成为时尚女性的标配。越来越多的女性为了这个时尚新饰品加入了健身大军。

最近，你的朋友圈被妹子们的“六块腹肌”刷屏了吗？

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Along the streets of Beijing, flyers advertising newly built gyms are passed into everyone's hands.

在北京街头巷尾，推销新开健身房的传单被塞到每个行人手中。

With prices ranging from 1,000 RMB to 19,000 RMB a year, salespeople are ready to explain the advantages of their gym's membership card over the competition.

销售员竞相向人们解释成为会员的好处，健身房会员卡的价格在每年1000元到1.9万元之间。

Exercise isn't traditionally part of Chinese culture, barring some aunties square-dancing in the park and a few tai chi practitioners on the sidelines. But that's changing now, with the hashtag #MajiaXian going viral on Weibo, China's Twitter.

传统上看，除了那些在公园跳广场舞的大妈和一些在旁边练太极的人，锻炼并非中国文化的一部分。但如今，这种状况正在改变，“马甲线”已成为新浪微博的热搜话题。

Because the outline of well-toned abdominal muscles looks like a vest, Chinese call abs "majia" -- or "vest" -- and "xian" -- or "lines," and this year they have become the goal of many women's pre-summer workouts.