为了美观，略施装饰，无可厚非〞，斥之伪，有点刻薄。
Nevertheless, a little embellishment for the sake of nice appearance is not altogether inadvisable, and it is a bit harsh to denounce it as falsehood.
日本人很讲究包 装，一个漂亮的大匣里面藏着精致的小匣，小匣里还有更小的匣，一 层层的包装待你剥到底，最后裸露的往往只是一块小小的糖果。
Hidden inside one beautiful big box will be a number of gradually smaller delicate ones placed one inside another.
我们进入了包裝的时代，这恰好提醒我们进入了伪劣假冒的时 代。
We have entered the age of packaging, Or rather the of counterfeit and shoddy merchandise.
"豪华精美"包装的礼品满天飞，送这种豪华礼品的人与被送 者之间绝无真诚的友情，聪明的包装者0是明悟这一实际的，所以工 夫用在礼品之外，包装之上。
Aware of the complete absence of real friendship between sender and receiver of a gift shrewd businessmen have been racking their brains trying to beautify the packing design rather than improve the commodity itself.
外国也包装，也走人情，也行贿，但 以包装作欺蒙则我们传统中早有提示：金玉其外，败絮其中心。
People in foreign countries are also particular about packaging, and also bribe with gifts, but we have a longer tradition of hoodwinking customers by means of packaging, as witness the ancient Chinese saying, "Gold and jade without, rubbish within." Star singers, painters and calligraphers, authors...all go in for self.
Packaging overtly in disregard of public ridicule.
书籍装帧应让人一目了然著作的内涵与品 位，是极深奥的艺术创作工作，但今日书店书摊上琳琅满目，一片花 里胡哨，连书名都认不出来。
But, today, bookstores and bookstalls are a riot loud glaring color, SO much So that the book titles are overshadowed and become hardly recognizable.
印一张白底黑字的封面吧。
Why not have book covers printed just in black and white instead?
伪装是个人的野心，也适应社会的需求。
Packaging serves to satisfy social needs as well as personal ambition.
官吏的乌纱、皇帝的 蟒袍用以吓唬老百姓，他们退堂退朝后便恢复本来面目，毋须衣冠 沐猴了。
Imperial officials and emperors used to wear black gauze hats and boa- design robes respectively to frighten common people into submission.
西装、革履、领带，这种包装在西方已定型几百年0，并早 已成为全世界公认的正式服饰，而且居然在不断更新的时装流变中岿 然不动。
The Western-style suit with leather shoes and necktie to gO with it is a kind of packaging that has taken shape in the West ever since several hundred years ago.
但休闲服的兴起，不知是否会冲垮这端着架子的西装传统， 因人们最终要追求自在与舒适，一切架子与伪装都将被抛弃。
Nevertheless, nobody can tell if the tradition of wearing the stiff and formal Western-style will end up being broken down by the upsurge of popular casual wear.
当跑不脱的 紧急时刻，她将头钻进沙堆，她看不见敌人了，以为已安全，人笑这 是鸵鸟心态"。
At the critical moment when it is hard pressed, it buries its head in the sand, thinking itself simply because it can't see the enemy.
是鸵乌学了阿Q，还是阿Q学了鸵鸟，无从考证，也 不必考证了。
It is impossible and also unnecessary to find out if Ah Q is the teacher of the ostrich or vice versa.
孔雀陶醉在自己的美丽中，她施施然地散步d，侧目看行人，希 望人们欣赏她的美，她估计人们都拜倒于她的艳丽。
It struts around with a sidelong glance at the pedestrians, hoping that they will stop to view admire itself and believing that all people will be infatuated with its gorgeousness.
只一句，她永远没听懂： 你是一个可怜的女人。
Nevertheless, there is sentence it can never understand, that is, "You're a miserable woman." The Fagle The grayish brown eagle never thinks of preening itself.
她目力好敏锐，遥 远处一只奔跑的兔或鼠，一旦落人她的视线O，她飞速降落，猛地一 扑，便获取了生命的粮食。
As soon as it spots a distant hare or rat on the run, the sharp- eyed bird will swoop down on its prey for life-sustaining food.
在那本布满虫蛀的影集里，贴着我出世后最早的几张照片。
The moth-eaten album contained several photos of myself taken in early childhood.
Stared blankly at my little face in the faded photos, feeling as if1 were reliving my childhood.
照片上的童年是真实的，又是虚幻的。
My childhood, as recorded in the old photos, was at once real and unreal.
萌芽状态的人生，一无所知地面对着陌生 另一张站着的全身照，记得是摄于三岁那年，也可能是四岁。
Another photo, in which I stood full-length, had been taken, I remember, when I was three or four.
冬 天，穿着又厚又臃肿的棉袍，显得蹒跚可笑。
It was winter, and was dressed cumbersomely in a cotton-padded thick gown, staggering ridiculously.
又一张，看上去是同一 时刻拍摄的。
In stilll another photo, probably taken at the same time, I was holding grandma by the hand.
在照片上，她微微侧着脸，仿佛叮嘱我向前注视，又像在给我讲孟姜 女万里寻夫的悲壮故事。
She was turning her head slightly, as if trying to me look ahead or telling me the tragic and moving story of Meng Jiang Nu\* making a long, difficult journey in search of her husband.
我的祖母有讲不完的民间故事。
She had unlimited stock of folk tales to tell.
我总觉得她 有一本无字的书，书上写满了令人神往的故事，那也是我最早接触到 的文学作品。
I always thought her in possession ofa wordless book full of fascinating stories.