VOA慢速英语:What Makes Beauty So Appealing?

短语讲解：

1. Beauty, say experts, is very individual. While Bullock is undeniably good-looking, not everyone agrees to what extent.

agree to 同意， 赞成
例句：We cannot agree to consign the goods.
我们不同意寄售此货。

2. Ms. Germine said the research centered on the individual judgments of face attractiveness that differ from each other.

each other 互相，彼此
例句：Do you often help each other with your lessons?
你们经常互相帮助复习功课吗？

3. In fact, the preference for beautiful — or dislike of average — faces agreed only about 50 percent of the time.

in fact 事实上; 实际上
例句：In fact, that is the reason why I'm here to see you.
事实上 这是我来见你的原因。

4. “So it could be that if a person has a relationship, a romantic or friend relationship, with someone they are very close to and they think of very positively, the characteristics of that person’s face will then seem more attractive to them even on other people."
 
think of 想起; 考虑
例句：It behoves us to think of these dangers.
我们必须考虑到这些危险。

5. In other words, beauty appears very much to be in the eye of the beholder.

in other words 换句话说; 就是说
例句：In other words, the quality of the candidates was the decisive factor.
换言之，人才是最后的决定因素。