说起Christy Turlington近年为美宝莲产品做的广告，恐怕就没有几个人不知道她是谁了！！ 凭着完美的身材、灿烂的笑脸、略显忧郁的表情轻而易举地获得世人青睐——她是世界著名品牌C．K长期合作广告模特 、ELLE（世界时装杂志）出镜率最高的封面女郎。1990—1999年间被列入世界超级名模的行列。
Date of Birth：January 2, 1969 Place of Birth：Oakland, California
Nationality：American Hair Color： Brown
Eye Color：Green Height： (cm) 178 (ft/in) 5' 10"
Weight：(kg) 54 (lb): 119
Bust-Waist-Hips：(cm) 86-58-86 (in) 34-23-34
Agencies：Los Angeles - United Talent Agency
Hobbies：Horseback riding
Christy was discovered at age 13 by photographer Dennie Cody who sent her photos to a local model agency. Christy signed with the Ford agency but waited until she had finished school before taking up modelling full-time.
——Agency是“代理、中介”的意思，举个例子来加深一下印象：sole agency（独家代理）、 agency general（总代理）。
——我们都知道打零工做兼职是“part-time”，文中所提到的“full-time”就是“全职、专职”的意思。美国的很多中学生都做过兼职工作，Christy也是毕业后才为福特代理公司担任全职model。
She was part of the supermodel Trinity along with Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell. Christy was featured in Peter Lindbergh's book 10 Women. She co-owns the Up and Down Club in San Francisco with her younger sister Erin.
“co-”是一个前缀，表示“联合, 伴同”之义，例如：co-operate“合作”。“co-own”也就是“共同拥有”的意思。Christy和妹妹合开一个名叫“上和下”的俱乐部。
She co-owned the Fashion Café restaurant chain with Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Elle MacPherson, but has now quit. Christy starred in the film Catwalk, appeared in George Michael's Freedom music-video and had her own calendar.
Chain用作名词的时候通常表示“链子”—— The dog was chained (up) to the wall.（这只狗被用一条链子拴在墙上）。文中我们所看到的chain有“连锁店”的意思，也就是说restaurant chain是“连锁饭店”。
Calendar是我们平时用的“日历”，例如：a wall /desk calendar（挂历、台历），还有我们说的：a Chinese calendar（农历）。像文中的calendar指的是“日程表”，因此这句话的意思隐含着“Christy从那之后开始走红，日常活动安排得很紧密了”。
Christy is studying Liberal Arts at New York University and is the chairperson of the Intercambios Culturales of El Salvador organization. Due to her perfect proportions, the New York Metropolitan Museum had 120 mannequins modelled after her.
Chairperson和chairman都是表示“主席”，由于美国女权主义者的抗议，为表示公平在正式场合开始使用chairperson来表示chairman和chairwoman。 Due：欠的，应给的。常与介词to连用，如：Our thanks are due to him.（我们要感谢他）。另外due to 还可以表达“归因于”——Her illness was due to bad food.（她的病是因为吃了变质的食物造成的）。
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