Name: 化妝品的歷史｜分級讀本｜提升你的英語流利度 ✅️ (The History of Makeup || Graded Reader || Improve Your English Fluency ✅️)
Uploaded: 2026-02-14T01:05:52.000Z
Duration: 14 min 8 s

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Imagine you are sitting with me by a warm fire.

想像一下，你們正坐在我身邊，圍著溫暖的火爐。

Outside, the world is busy and loud, but here it is quiet.

外面的世界很忙碌、很吵雜，但這裡很安靜。

Have you ever looked in the mirror in the morning?

Maybe you put a little color on your lips.

Or maybe you just look at your reflection and wonder, who am I?

又或者，你只是看著自己的倒影，然後想著，我是誰呢？

We often think of makeup as something modern.

我們常常覺得彩妝是現代的東西。

We think of bright shops, plastic bottles, and famous people on the Internet.

我們想到明亮的店面、塑膠瓶，還有網路上有名的明星。

But my friends, have you ever stopped to wonder, where did it all begin?

但我的朋友們，你們有沒有停下來想過，這一切是從哪裡開始的呢？

The story of makeup is not a story about vanity.

彩妝的故事，並不是一個關於虛榮的故事。

Vanity is when someone cares too much about their looks.

虛榮是指一個人太在意自己的外表。

不，這是一個關於身為人的故事。

It is a story about our need to speak without using words.

這是一個關於我們不需要開口就能溝通的需求的故事。

Since the very beginning of time, humans have used color and paint to tell the world who they are.

從時間的最初開始，人類就使用色彩和顏料來告訴世界他們是誰。

They used it to show their power to talk to their gods and to feel safe.

他們用它來展現與神溝通的力量，並讓自己感到安全。

今天，我們用彩妝讓自己感覺漂亮。

But for our ancestors, it was much more than that.

但對我們的祖先來說，這遠不止於此。

Let's go far back into the mists of time.

We are going to travel through thousands of years.

We will see how a little bit of color changed the way we see ourselves.

我們將看到一點點色彩如何改變我們對自己的看法。

Imagine a land of golden sand and a bright burning sun.

想像一下，這片土地有著金黃的沙子和炙熱的太陽。

在埃及，彩妝不只是女性專屬。

因為在埃及，美麗就是神聖的。

If you looked clean and beautiful, you were closer to the gods.

如果你看起來乾淨又美麗，你就更接近神。

The most famous part of Egyptian makeup was coal.

埃及彩妝中最有名的一部分就是炭粉。

They used a small stick to put it around their eyes.

他們會用小木棍把它們塗在眼睛周圍。

Have you seen pictures of the famous Queen Cleopatra?

你有看過埃及豔後克麗奧佩脫拉的照片嗎？

Her eyes are always lined with deep, dark black.

她的眼睛總是畫著深邃的黑色眼線。

The black powder helped protect their eyes from the bright light.

這種黑色的粉末能幫助保護他們的眼睛免受強光傷害。

It was like the first pair of sunglasses.

It also kept away tiny insects and eye infections.

它也能驅趕微小的昆蟲，預防眼睛感染。

So it was medicine and fashion at the same time.

Next to the Egyptians, in a place called Mesopotamia, what we now call Iraq, people were also very creative.

在埃及人旁邊，有個地方叫做美索不達米亞，也就是我們現在說的伊拉克，那裡的人們也很有創意。

They were the first to use lipstick, but it wasn't in a tube like today.

他們是第一批使用口紅的人，但那時的口紅不像現在這樣有管子。

They crushed beautiful semi precious stones into a fine dust.

他們把美麗的半寶石壓碎成細粉。

They put this dust on their lips to make them sparkle.

他們把這些粉末塗在嘴脣上，讓嘴脣閃閃發光。

To these ancient people, makeup was a bridge.

對這些古人來說，彩妝是一座橋樑。

A bridge between the human world and the world of the spirits.

一座連接人界和靈魂世界的橋樑。

When they painted their faces, they felt protected, they felt powerful.

當他們畫臉時，感覺受到保護，感覺充滿力量。

他們是在向太陽展現他們的靈魂。

Now let's travel across the sea to ancient Greece.

現在，讓我們跨越海洋，來到古希臘。

The Greeks were very different from the Egyptians.

古希臘人跟古埃及人很不一樣。

They believed that a healthy body was the most beautiful thing of all In Greece, if you used too much makeup, people might think you were being dishonest.

他們相信健康的身體才是最美的。在古希臘，如果你用太多彩妝，大家可能會覺得你不誠實。

Women used a little bit of honey to keep their skin soft.

女人會用一點蜂蜜來保持皮膚柔嫩。

They used crushed berries to give their cheeks a tiny bit of red color.

她們會用壓碎的莓果，讓臉頰帶點淡淡的紅色。

Rome was a place of big buildings and big dreams.

羅馬是個充滿宏偉建築和宏大夢想的地方。

And for the Romans, makeup was a way to show how much money you had.

對羅馬人來說，彩妝是展現財富的一種方式。

Wealthy Roman women wanted skin that was as white as snow.

富有的羅馬女性追求雪白般的肌膚。

Because if your skin was white, it meant you did not have to work outside in the sun.

因為如果妳的皮膚白皙，就代表妳不必在外面晒太陽工作。

It showed you were a lady of leisure, a person who stays inside and rests.

這顯示妳是個悠閒的貴婦，是個待在室內休息的人。

To get this white skin, they used something called lead.

為了達到這種白皙的膚色，她們會使用一種叫做鉛的東西。

Lead is a heavy metal, and it is very poisonous.

鉛是一種重金屬，而且有劇毒。

They put white lead powder on their faces every day.

她們每天會在臉上塗抹鉛白粉。

這讓她們看起來美美的，但只是一小段時間。

It ruined their skin and caused many health problems.

這毀了她們的皮膚，也造成了許多健康問題。

For thousands of years, humans have been willing to put dangerous things on their bodies just to follow a trend.

幾千年來，人類為了跟隨潮流，竟然願意把危險的東西往身上塗。

A trend is something that is popular for a short time.

潮流就是指某種東西在短時間內很受歡迎。

Even in ancient Rome, people were suffering for the sake of beauty.

就連古羅馬時期，人們為了追求美麗也吃盡苦頭。

As the centuries passed, we entered the middle ages in Europe.

隨著歲月流逝，我們進入了歐洲的中世紀。

The leaders of the church said that makeup was a sin.

教會的領導者們說，彩妝是一種罪。

They believed that if you changed your face, you were lying to God.

他們認為，如果你改變自己的臉，就是在欺騙上帝。

Because of this, most women stopped wearing colorful makeup.

是以，大部分女性都停止使用色彩鮮豔的彩妝。

A pure woman was supposed to have a clean, plain face.

一個純潔的女性應該擁有乾淨、樸素的臉龐。

Beauty was seen as a danger, something that could lead people into trouble.

美麗被視為一種危險，一種可能讓人們陷入麻煩的事物。

But then, like a flower blooming after a long winter, the renaissance arrived.

但接著，就像漫長的冬天過後綻放的花朵，文藝復興來臨了。