The average woman criticises herself at least eight times a day, a study has found.

研究顯示，普通女性每天至少會“嫌棄”自己八次。

A worrying trend of negativity among women was revealed by a survey of 2,000 women - with one in seven women admitting to criticising themselves regularly throughout their day.

Most of those surveyed wanted to lose weight, and image-based criticisms were by farthe most prevalent.

Not earning enough money and deliberately deflecting compliments were other commonput-downs.

Selfies and social media platforms such as Instagram were blamed as being a driving force behind today's visual culture.

Women are bombarded with images of perfection while at the same time expected to balance both working lives and family lives, which experts concluded led to women'scritical relationships with themselves.

Lifestyle judgements were also found to be prevalent, including not earning enough money or having the right job.

Today shectic and visually-driven world has meant that we're seeing a rise in women being self-critical, from the way they look to the way they feel at work, said Zoe Griffiths, Head of Public Health and Programme at Weight Watchers, which conducted the survey.

Our research has shown that being unkind to ourselves has been an underlying theme for women for many years, but a set of very modern cultural conditions have increased the intensity of this unkindness which are hard to avoid.

At Weight Watchers we know that to adopt a healthy lifestyle it is important to build a better relationship with yourself in order to make a positive change.'

1 deliberately

adv.審慎地；蓄意地；故意地

參考例句：

?  The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。

? They deliberately shifted off theargument.他們故意回避這個論點。

2deflecting

（使）偏斜， （使）偏離， （使）轉(zhuǎn)向( deflect的現(xiàn)在分詞 )

參考例句：

? A variety of mechanical surfaces havebeen employed for deflecting the exhaust jets of solid-propellant rockets. 人們已經(jīng)用過各種類型的機械控制面來偏轉(zhuǎn)固體推進(jìn)劑火箭的排氣流。

? If she made a leading statement, he wasexpert deflecting her into more impersonal channels. 只要她一開口，他就會巧妙地把她的話題轉(zhuǎn)到與個人無關(guān)的問題上去。

3 hectic

adj.肺病的；消耗熱的；發(fā)熱的；鬧哄哄的

參考例句：

? I spent a very hectic Sunday.我度過了一個忙亂的星期天。

? The two days we spent there wereenjoyable but hectic.我們在那里度過的兩天愉快但鬧哄哄的。

4 underlying

adj.在下面的，含蓄的，潛在的

參考例句：

? The underlying theme of the novel is veryserious.小說隱含的主題是十分嚴(yán)肅的。

? This word has its underlying meaning.這個單詞有它潛在的含義。

5 intensity

n.強烈，劇烈；強度；烈度

參考例句：

? I didn't realize the intensity ofpeople's feelings on this issue.我沒有意識到這一問題能引起群情激奮。

? The strike is growing in intensity.罷工日益加劇。