I was the ugly one at school - the kid with the Coke-bottle glasses, the spots, the braces. I got picked on all the time. I was treated not just as ugly, but as an idiot. Instead of learning maths, I learned to despise myself.
我是學校裡的醜小孩——眼鏡片厚得像酒瓶底、長著瘌痢頭、戴著牙套。我總是遭到別人的嘲笑。人們不僅認為我醜，還把我當成傻瓜。我沒有學會數學，而是學會了鄙視自己。
wǒ shì xué xiào lǐ de chǒu xiǎo hái ——yǎn jìng piàn hòu dé xiàng jiǔ píng dǐ 、zhǎng zhe là lì tóu 、dài zhe yá tào 。wǒ zǒng shì zāo dào bié rén de cháo xiào 。rén men bú jǐn rèn wéi wǒ chǒu ，hái bǎ wǒ dāng chéng shǎ guā 。wǒ méi yǒu xué huì shù xué ，ér shì xué huì le bǐ shì zì jǐ 。
My parents - I got the worst of both of them in the looks department - didn't really know how I was being treated at school. They couldn't understand why my grades kept going down and why I was a troublemaker. They sent me to all sorts of psychologists. I thought of killing myself - I could imagine myself at home, with the knife in my hand.
我的父母——我集中了他們兩人長相的缺點——並不真正清楚我在學校裡受到的待遇。他們不明白，為什麼我的成績不斷下降，為什麼我總是搗亂。他們帶我去看各式各樣的心理醫生。我想到過自殺，我能想象到自己待在家裡，手中拿著一把刀。
wǒ de fù mǔ ——wǒ jí zhōng le tā men liǎng rén zhǎng xiàng de quē diǎn ——bìng bú zhēn zhèng qīng chǔ wǒ zài xué xiào lǐ shòu dào de dài yù 。tā men bú míng bái ，wéi shí me wǒ de chéng jì bú duàn xià jiàng ，wéi shí me wǒ zǒng shì dǎo luàn 。tā men dài wǒ qù kàn gè shì gè yàng de xīn lǐ yī shēng 。wǒ xiǎng dào guò zì shā ，wǒ néng xiǎng xiàng dào zì jǐ dài zài jiā lǐ ，shǒu zhōng ná zhe yī bǎ dāo 。
Going out with girls was torture - I had to make hundreds of phone calls just to get a date and the goal was to try not to get dumped on the street corner as soon as they saw me. By then, I'd worked out that at school the best reaction was to be funny about it so that I wouldn't get teased. I became quite a character.
與女孩們出去對我是一種折磨——我要打上數百個電話，才能得到一次約會，目的就是不要讓她們一看見我就把我扔到街角不予理睬。後來我發現，在學校裡，最好的反應就是一笑了之，這樣我就不會被人取笑。我變得相當有個性。
yǔ nǚ hái men chū qù duì wǒ shì yī zhǒng shé mó ——wǒ yào dǎ shàng shù bǎi gè diàn huà ，cái néng dé dào yī cì yuē huì ，mù de jiù shì bú yào ràng tā men yī kàn jiàn wǒ jiù bǎ wǒ rēng dào jiē jiǎo bú yǔ lǐ cǎi 。hòu lái wǒ fā xiàn ，zài xué xiào lǐ ，zuì hǎo de fǎn yīng jiù shì yī xiào le zhī ，zhè yàng wǒ jiù bú huì bèi rén qǔ xiào 。wǒ biàn dé xiàng dāng yǒu gè xìng 。
But I was suffering from ''aesthetic anorexia''. I ignored my dentist and got rid of my braces and spent a fortune on glasses with lenses that didn't look too thick. I had laser surgery on my eyes - I didn't care that it was earlier than recommended. I had hair implants. I was thinking about other surgical procedures like another implant and liposuction.
但我出現了“審美厭倦”。我無視牙醫的建議，取下了牙套，花一大筆錢買了鏡片看上去不那麼厚的眼鏡。我做了眼激光手術，絲毫不介意做手術的時間比醫生建議的更早。我接受了植髮。我正考慮做其它外科手術，例如再做一次植髮和吸脂手術。
dàn wǒ chū xiàn le “shěn měi yàn juàn ”。wǒ wú shì yá yī de jiàn yì ，qǔ xià le yá tào ，huā yī dà bǐ qián mǎi le jìng piàn kàn shàng qù bú nà me hòu de yǎn jìng 。wǒ zuò le yǎn jī guāng shǒu shù ，sī háo bú jiè yì zuò shǒu shù de shí jiān bǐ yī shēng jiàn yì de gèng zǎo 。wǒ jiē shòu le zhí fā 。wǒ zhèng kǎo lǜ zuò qí tā wài kē shǒu shù ，lì rú zài zuò yī cì zhí fā hé xī zhī shǒu shù 。
I tried all kinds of diets, I spent hours at the gym. I was a total slave to the mirror - it was utter aesthetic desperation. I was trying to turn into a prince from a sad, ugly frog, but I still felt sad and ugly.
我試過各種節食方法，花了很多時間健身。我完全成了鏡子的奴隸。鏡子絕對是審美絕望。我努力把自己從一個傷心、醜陋的青蛙變為一個王子，但我仍然傷心而醜陋。
wǒ shì guò gè zhǒng jiē shí fāng fǎ ，huā le hěn duō shí jiān jiàn shēn 。wǒ wán quán chéng le jìng zǐ de nú lì 。jìng zǐ jué duì shì shěn měi jué wàng 。wǒ nǔ lì bǎ zì jǐ cóng yī gè shāng xīn 、chǒu lòu de qīng wā biàn wéi yī gè wáng zǐ ，dàn wǒ réng rán shāng xīn ér chǒu lòu 。
I decided to write a book about my experiences of being visually unappealing in Argentina, a country with the most beautiful women in the world. I called it Ugly. It was great therapy. There aren't any other books about what it's like to be ugly and not turn into a swan. I think an ugly duckling has to be happy to be ugly.
我決定寫一本書，談談在彙集了全球最美麗女性的阿根廷，貌不出眾帶給我的經歷。我把這本書定名為《醜陋》(Ugly)。這是一個偉大的療法。目前還沒有其它任何一本書講述醜小鴨不會變成白天鵝會是什麼樣子。我認為，醜小鴨必須樂於醜陋。
wǒ jué dìng xiě yī běn shū ，tán tán zài huì jí le quán qiú zuì měi lì nǚ xìng de ā gēn tíng ，mào bú chū zhòng dài gěi wǒ de jīng lì 。wǒ bǎ zhè běn shū dìng míng wéi 《chǒu lòu 》(Ugly)。zhè shì yī gè wěi dà de liáo fǎ 。mù qián hái méi yǒu qí tā rèn hé yī běn shū jiǎng shù chǒu xiǎo yā bú huì biàn chéng bái tiān é huì shì shí me yàng zǐ 。wǒ rèn wéi ，chǒu xiǎo yā bì xū lè yú chǒu lòu 。
I realised ideal beauty is a racket. It doesn't exist. Most people can't spend the four or five hours a day in the gym that you need to have a perfect body, and starving yourself in a country where food is plentiful is a kind of ostentation. It's perverse.
我意識到，理想的美是一種噱頭。它並不存在。大多數人不可能每天在健身房花上四五個小時，練就完美身材，在食品豐富的國家讓自己捱餓不過是出風頭。這不合常理。
wǒ yì shí dào ，lǐ xiǎng de měi shì yī zhǒng xué tóu 。tā bìng bú cún zài 。dà duō shù rén bú kě néng měi tiān zài jiàn shēn fáng huā shàng sì wǔ gè xiǎo shí ，liàn jiù wán měi shēn cái ，zài shí pǐn fēng fù de guó jiā ràng zì jǐ āi è bú guò shì chū fēng tóu 。zhè bú hé cháng lǐ 。
I even said that there should be a tax on beautiful people to subsidise us ugly ones. The government ignored me, of course, but this month I'm meeting people from the education ministry to talk about devising some anti-bullying material to use in classrooms. Because of my book, teenagers confide things to me that they can't tell anyone else, so I want to use this and do something positive to help build ugly kids' self-esteem.
我甚至提出，應該對漂亮的人徵稅，以補貼我們這些醜人。當然，政府沒有理睬我的建議，但本月，我將與教育部的一些官員會面，討論設計一些課堂上使用的反欺凌教材。由於我的書，青少年向我吐露了一些他們不會告訴其他任何人的事情，因此我希望利用這一點，做些積極的事情，幫助醜孩子樹立自尊心。
wǒ shèn zhì tí chū ，yīng gāi duì piāo liàng de rén zhēng shuì ，yǐ bǔ tiē wǒ men zhè xiē chǒu rén 。dāng rán ，zhèng fǔ méi yǒu lǐ cǎi wǒ de jiàn yì ，dàn běn yuè ，wǒ jiāng yǔ jiāo yù bù de yī xiē guān yuán huì miàn ，tǎo lùn shè jì yī xiē kè táng shàng shǐ yòng de fǎn qī líng jiāo cái 。yóu yú wǒ de shū ，qīng shǎo nián xiàng wǒ tǔ lù le yī xiē tā men bú huì gào sù qí tā rèn hé rén de shì qíng ，yīn cǐ wǒ xī wàng lì yòng zhè yī diǎn ，zuò xiē jī jí de shì qíng ，bāng zhù chǒu hái zǐ shù lì zì zūn xīn 。
In my case, I transplanted all the insecurities I'd had at school into the world of work and I wasted 10 years. I'm trying to get over it. I'm 31 now. I went from being a loser with women to being a Don Juan while I was writing the book - I became an expert at picking up women in the street, but they were all one-night stands.
就我個人而言，我將自己上學時的不安全感全部移植到了職場，我浪費了10年。我正努力消除這種不安全感。我如今31歲。在寫這本書的過程中，我從一位與女性打交道屢屢失敗的人變成了唐璜（Don Juan，西班牙傳說中的風流貴族）。我成了一個採花專家，但這些都是一夜情。
jiù wǒ gè rén ér yán ，wǒ jiāng zì jǐ shàng xué shí de bú ān quán gǎn quán bù yí zhí dào le zhí chǎng ，wǒ làng fèi le 10nián 。wǒ zhèng nǔ lì xiāo chú zhè zhǒng bú ān quán gǎn 。wǒ rú jīn 31suì 。zài xiě zhè běn shū de guò chéng zhōng ，wǒ cóng yī wèi yǔ nǚ xìng dǎ jiāo dào lǚ lǚ shī bài de rén biàn chéng le táng huáng （Don Juan，xī bān yá chuán shuō zhōng de fēng liú guì zú ）。wǒ chéng le yī gè cǎi huā zhuān jiā ，dàn zhè xiē dōu shì yī yè qíng 。
I've still only had one girlfriend in my life. Women used to give me the brush-off. Now they know me as ''the ugly one''. But lots of women are afraid of going out with me because they think I'm writing another book and they'll be in it. But things can't change until people do, and we can all stop relying on the mirror - especially the girls.
在我的生命中，我仍然只有一位女友。女人們過去紛紛拋棄我。如今，她們把我當成“那個醜陋的人”。但很多女人害怕和我出去，因為她們認為，我正在寫另外一本書，她們會被寫進書裡。但只有人們行動起來，事情才會轉變，我們都可以不再依賴於鏡子——特別是女孩子們。
zài wǒ de shēng mìng zhōng ，wǒ réng rán zhī yǒu yī wèi nǚ yǒu 。nǚ rén men guò qù fēn fēn pāo qì wǒ 。rú jīn ，tā men bǎ wǒ dāng chéng “nà gè chǒu lòu de rén ”。dàn hěn duō nǚ rén hài pà hé wǒ chū qù ，yīn wéi tā men rèn wéi ，wǒ zhèng zài xiě lìng wài yī běn shū ，tā men huì bèi xiě jìn shū lǐ 。dàn zhī yǒu rén men háng dòng qǐ lái ，shì qíng cái huì zhuǎn biàn ，wǒ men dōu kě yǐ bú zài yī lài yú jìng zǐ ——tè bié shì nǚ hái zǐ men 。
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