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いよいよ夏本番。街に出た筆者は、真っ黒に日焼けした若者の姿が多いのに驚いている。欧米や日差しの強い南半球の国々では、みんな、肌を日にさらすことに慎重になっているというのに…
To Tan Or Not To Tan?
By JULIET HINDELL
It's summer and the temptation is to go outside and sit in the sun. As I walk around the city this year, I see more young people with tans than I remember seeing last year. I wonder how many people have spent hours baking on the beach or lying under a sunlamp or simply slapping on fake tan from a bottle. Each of these methods is pretty time-consuming but it's clear that it's fashionable to be tanned, very tanned.
An American friend of mine is visiting Japan at the moment. We met 10 years ago when we were both English teachers in Tateba-yashi, Gunma Pre. He has been away from Japan for eight years and one of the first things he noticed coming back was the deep tans young people are sporting this year. He speaks near-perfect Japanese so when he sees someone with a tan he asks them why. "It's trendy," is the usual reply.
"But don't you realize it's also dangerous?" he asks. "It doesn't get a great reception. Most people don't understand that I'm not criticizing and that my intentions are to be helpful," he says.
If you watch television you see many beautifully bronzed celebrities. Magazines are full of people deeply tanned. There is no doubt that the look this summer is brown.
But in America, Britain and even more so in Australia and New Zealand, people have come to fear the sun as well as love it. A tan may look healthy and sporty and give the impression that you live a fun, outdoor life but it can also be bad for your skin. In these countries, every summer the newspapers are full of articles warning about the dangers of overexposure to the sun, and there are countless advertisements for sunscreen lotions and so-called total sunblock creams.
People with blue eyes, pale skin and blond hair are among those most likely to suffer from skin cancer. Australians, New Zealanders and others who live in sunny places have found out that getting a tan can be fatal. Less fearsome but also a consideration are the aging effects of letting pale skin go brown. You'll get wrinkles much faster. Elderly ladies working in the fields in Japan know this. They shroud themselves in hats and scarves and even gloves.
Nevertheless, sun worshippers around the world strip down and spend hours frying in the sun to get the perfect tan. It seems the direct warnings will not deter people from wanting to be bronzed. I myself would love to be tanned. The problem is, I turn lobster red, even in the shade. I have no choice but to hide from the sun. My deathly pale is very untrendy.
Then I turn on the television and the first thing I see is an advertisement for skin whitener. A young woman turns happily to the camera and says her face is noticeably paler since she started using the skin cream. Wait a minute — I thought it was fashionable to be suntanned!?
It's summer and the temptation is to go outside and sit in the sun. As I walk around the city this year, I see more young people with tans than I remember seeing last year. I wonder how many people have spent hours baking on the beach or lying under a sunlamp or simply slapping on fake tan from a bottle. Each of these methods is pretty time-consuming but it's clear that it's fashionable to be tanned, very tanned.
An American friend of mine is visiting Japan at the moment. We met 10 years ago when we were both English teachers in Tateba-yashi, Gunma Pre. He has been away from Japan for eight years and one of the first things he noticed coming back was the deep tans young people are sporting this year. He speaks near-perfect Japanese so when he sees someone with a tan he asks them why. "It's trendy," is the usual reply.
"But don't you realize it's also dangerous?" he asks. "It doesn't get a great reception. Most people don't understand that I'm not criticizing and that my intentions are to be helpful," he says.
If you watch television you see many beautifully bronzed celebrities. Magazines are full of people deeply tanned. There is no doubt that the look this summer is brown.
But in America, Britain and even more so in Australia and New Zealand, people have come to fear the sun as well as love it. A tan may look healthy and sporty and give the impression that you live a fun, outdoor life but it can also be bad for your skin. In these countries, every summer the newspapers are full of articles warning about the dangers of overexposure to the sun, and there are countless advertisements for sunscreen lotions and so-called total sunblock creams.
People with blue eyes, pale skin and blond hair are among those most likely to suffer from skin cancer. Australians, New Zealanders and others who live in sunny places have found out that getting a tan can be fatal. Less fearsome but also a consideration are the aging effects of letting pale skin go brown. You'll get wrinkles much faster. Elderly ladies working in the fields in Japan know this. They shroud themselves in hats and scarves and even gloves.
Nevertheless, sun worshippers around the world strip down and spend hours frying in the sun to get the perfect tan. It seems the direct warnings will not deter people from wanting to be bronzed. I myself would love to be tanned. The problem is, I turn lobster red, even in the shade. I have no choice but to hide from the sun. My deathly pale is very untrendy.
Then I turn on the television and the first thing I see is an advertisement for skin whitener. A young woman turns happily to the camera and says her face is noticeably paler since she started using the skin cream. Wait a minute — I thought it was fashionable to be suntanned!?
Shukan ST: Aug. 14, 1998
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- temptation
- 心を引きつけるもの
- 〜 with tans
- 日焼けした 〜
- have spent hours 〜 ing
- 何時間も 〜 して過ごす
- baking on the beach
- 浜辺で肌を焼いて
- lying under a sun lamp
- 太陽灯の下に横たわって
- slapping on fake tan from a bottle
- 日焼けしているように見せかけるクリームをたっぷり塗って
- methods
- 方法
- time-consuming
- 時間がかかる
- at the moment
- ちょうど今
- deep tans
- 真っ黒な日焼け
- are sporting
- 見せびらかしている
- trendy
- 最新流行の
- reply
- 返事
- It doesn't get a great reception.
- 喜んで聞いてはもらえない
- (am)not criticizing
- 批判しているのではない
- my intentions are to be helpful
- 相手の助けになりたいと思って言っている
- bronzed
- ブロンズ色に焼けた
- celebrities
- 有名人
- There is no doubt that 〜
- 〜 だというのは間違いない
- look
- ファッション
- even more so in 〜
- ましてや 〜 では
- fear
- 恐れる
- healthy
- 健康的な
- sporty
- 活発な
- give the impression that 〜
- 〜 という印象を与える
- articles warning about 〜
- 〜 を警告する記事
- overexposure to 〜
- 〜 へ過度にさらすこと
- countless
- 数え切れないほどの
- advertisements for 〜
- 〜 の広告
- sunscreen lotions
- 日焼け止めローション
- total sunblock creams
- 完全に日焼けを防止するクリーム
- pale
- 白い
- are among those most likely to 〜
- 最も 〜 しやすい層に含まれる
- suffer from 〜
- 〜 にかかる
- skin cancer
- 皮膚ガン
- sunny
- 日あたりの良い
- fatal
- 致命的な
- Less fearsome but also a consideration are 〜
- それほど恐ろしくはなくても考慮すべき問題は 〜
- aging effects of 〜
- 〜 が老化につながること
- letting 〜 go brown
- 〜 を茶色に焼くこと
- get wrinkles
- シワができる
- Elderly
- 年配の
- fields
- 畑
- shroud themselves in 〜
- 〜 で自分たちを覆う
- Nevertheless
- それにもかかわらず
- sun worshippers
- 太陽崇拝者
- strip down
- 服を脱ぐ
- spend hours frying in the sun
- 太陽の下で何時間も日焼けして過ごす
- to get the perfect tan
- 最高に素敵な日焼けをするまで
- deter 〜 from 〜
- 〜 に 〜 を思いとどまらせる
- turn lobster red
- 真っ赤になってしまう
- shade
- 日影
- have no choice but to 〜
- 〜 するしかない
- hide from 〜
- 〜 を避ける
- deathly
- 死人のような
- skin whitener
- 肌を白くする化粧品
- noticeably
- 人目を引くほど
- Wait a minute
- ちょっと待って