万花筒 Kaleidoscope2007-09-20&09-21, 十三岁走上T型台

Script:

Runway model is getting a good look. She was the face of an Australian fashion event, but there is just one thing—she first started walking the cat-walk when she was only 12 years old. And the question is, is that too young? Here’s NBC’s Net Colt

Too thin. Last year the furor¹ in fashion was about size that a stereo size zero which might exist on but almost never off the cat-walk. This year, this fresh-faced Australian model seems to have it all. She is tall, razor thin and moves like a gazelle.

I can fit into women’s clothes. I can model women’s clothes. So I should be able to do it. But Maddison Gabriel is in junior high and started modeling when she was just 12. She turned 13 on Sunday. But she models clothes for women twice or three times her age. Last year, politicians waded² into the size dispute. And this year is no different.

I’d think kids should be allowed to be kids for as long as possible.

It raises questions of whether it makes sense for adults to use children as fashion role models. But they have, for years. Many supermodels got their start at just 14 and there're issues of exploitation, pressure, immaturity³.

Now I have a 13-year-old niece and I get chills when I think about it. There's plenty of 14-year-old girls on the runway right now. I just don’t think people ever really thought about it or discussed it.

Maddison’s mother says her daughter can be both a girl and a young woman.

Well, these babies are on TV, aren’t they? Doing commercials. You tell me, what, what is too young?

Here in Britain the group that oversees⁴ the fashion industry has an answer to the question of how young is too young. Advising designers not to allow anyone under 16 on the cat-walk. Maddison doesn’t see what all the fuss is about. Her fashion statement: ‘It doesn’t matter what age, it matters that you can do the job.’ For today, Net Colt, NBC news. London.

1 furor   

n.狂热；大骚动

参考例句：

• His choice of words created quite a furor.他的措辞引起了相当大的轰动。
• The half hour lecture caused an enormous furor.那半小时的演讲引起了极大的轰动。

2 waded   

（从水、泥等）蹚，走过，跋( wade的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She tucked up her skirt and waded into the river. 她撩起裙子蹚水走进河里。
• He waded into the water to push the boat out. 他蹚进水里把船推出来。

3 immaturity   

n.不成熟；未充分成长；未成熟；粗糙

参考例句：

• It traces the development of a young man from immaturity to maturity. 它描写一位青年从不成熟到成熟的发展过程。 来自辞典例句
• Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. 不成熟就是不经他人的指引就无法运用自身的理解力。 来自互联网

4 oversees   

v.监督，监视( oversee的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• She oversees both the research and the manufacturing departments. 她既监督研究部门又监督生产部门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Department of Education oversees the federal programs dealing with education. 教育部监管处理教育的联邦程序。 来自互联网