More than the curlers some of the women seemed constantly to have in their hair in preparation for some great event -- a ball, one would think -- that never came to pass; more than the way most women's faces not only were never made up during the day, but seemed scraped, bleached, and, with their plucked eyebrows, scarily masklike; more than all that it was those dresses that made women so unknowable and forbidding,
一些女人烫后的卷发 似乎永远不会变 那些重要的集会 一场舞会，会有人想 不应错过 那些日子，女人的脸上 都化着她们从未化过的妆 不均匀的，漂白的 还有那些剃的光光的腋下，夸张的面具 比那更为不堪的，是那些衣服， 展现着女性的愚昧与禁忌