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奥运“美女训练营”探秘
作为奥运会的首批女服务员，1250名少女已经在北京的一所魅力学校开始了训练，但这个学校看起
来更像一个“美女训练营”。女孩们年轻靓丽，身段优美，但是，对希望参加颁奖仪式，出现在奖牌获得
者身边的女孩来说，等待她们的将是一系列严格的礼仪和举止训练课程。
One young woman fails to hold an elegant
crouch as students learn posture at the school
training the Olympic hostesses.[Agencies]
China has begun training the first of 1,250
teenage girls as hostesses for next year's
Olympics, at what is billed as a charm
school-but is more like a boot camp for
beauties.
For girls hoping to be selected to take
part in the award ceremonies, that means
enduring a
grueling schedule of etiquette and movement
classes as they are groomed, just outside
Beijing, to appear alongside medal-winning
athletes.
More than 560,000 people have applied to be
volunteers at the Games - the largest number
in
Olympic history. But none of the 100,000
who will eventually be chosen will be more
high-
profile than the young women who will act
as hostesses for the medal ceremonies.
Almost four billion people around the world
tuned in to watch the Athens Olympics in 2004,
and the opportunity to represent China in
front of such a global audience means that
competition is fierce.
Making the grade requires a discipline unusual
in teenagers. Like the other girls at the
Beijing Changping Vocational School,
17-year-old Wang Hong gets up at 5am every
day.
She spends hours standing in stilettos, while
balancing a book on her head and with a pair
of chopsticks clamped between her teeth to
improve her smile.
"Once I had to stand and smile for two
hours," Miss Wang said. "I have to
wear three
bandages on my feet after walking in the
high heels."
There is no time for boyfriends. When not
working on their postures or smiles, the girls
at
the residential school, which normally
specializes in training airline flight
attendants,
are taking dance classes, lessons in
etiquette and studying Olympic history.
For Miss Wang, all the effort and pain will be
worthwhile if she can help hand out medals to
China's most famous athletes, such as Liu
Xiang, the reigning Olympic and World 110
metre
hurdles champion, or escort visiting VIPs.
Some of the girls, though, have already been
ruled out for not meeting the Beijing Olympic
Committee's stringent criteria. These
include fair and unblemished skin.
Vocabulary:
stiletto: （女鞋的）细高跟
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