“离婚钻戒”火了！

近日，美国籍波兰裔英国女演员、模特艾米丽·拉塔科夫斯基（Emily Ratajkowski）晒出了两枚由当初订婚钻戒改造的所谓“离婚钻戒”，引发热议。她说，“我认为一个女人不应该因为失去一个男人而被剥夺她的钻石。”

🤔️小作业：

1. What prompted Emily Ratajkowski to repurpose her engagement ring into divorce rings?

A) She wanted to celebrate her divorce in a unique way.

B) Reading a friend's essay inspired her to represent her life's evolution.

C) She wanted to discard all memories of her previous marriage.

D) She was unsatisfied with the original design of her engagement ring.

A) The desire to follow a current fashion trend.

B) The symbolic representation of separation in divorce.

C) The intention to double the value of the original ring.

D) The preference for more wearable daily jewelry pieces.

无注释原文：

Emily Ratajkowski Repurposed Her Engagement Ring Into 'Divorce Rings'

From: VOGUE

You've heard of engagement rings—but have you ever heard of divorce rings? They're the latest poignant pieces that Emily Ratajkowski has added to her personal jewelry box this year.

Following the model's 2022 divorce from Sebastian Bear-McClard—with whom she shares a son, Sylvester—Ratajkowski recently decided to repurpose her former engagement ring into two new ring styles, changing the original intention and sentiment around them. She debuted the so-called divorce rings on Instagram earlier this morning. “The rings represent my own personal evolution,” Ratajkowski tells Vogue in an exclusive interview. “I don't think a woman should be stripped of her diamonds just because she's losing a man.”

The idea to repurpose the rings struck Ratajkowski while reading her friend Stephanie Danler's essay “The Unravelers” in The Paris Review. “[It] includes the story of her grandmother's snake ring—a ring that is made up of the different stones from her various marriages,” says Ratajkowski. “I loved the idea of a ring unabashedly representing the many lives a woman has lived.” Ratajkowski then approached her jeweler friend Alison Chemla—the creative director behind fine-jewelry brand Alison Lou—to collaborate on her new concept. Chemla was the perfect person for the project, given that she designed Ratajkowski's original engagement ring. “Emily and I spent a lot of time talking about what she wanted and how she wanted to feel when wearing the rings,” Chemla says.

To give Ratajkowski's divorce jewelry an entirely new feel, the duo landed on separating the engagement ring into two rings. “The idea of divorce is a separation, so it was always going to be splitting the ring into two separate but complementary rings,” Chemla says. Both pieces incorporated the original engagement rings' existing stones (one is a pear-shaped diamond, and the other is a princess-cut diamond) as well as platinum and 18-karat yellow gold settings. “Using the pear-shaped diamond as a pinky ring gave it real oomph,” the designer adds. “For the princess cut, we wanted to make it feel like a larger stone, so we added two trapezoid stones on either side.”

Reference-wise, Ratajkowski says the silhouette of the two new rings took inspiration from—who else?—Rihanna. “I was very inspired by Rihanna's diamond pinky-toe ring—I liked the idea of my former wedding ring ending up on my pinky,” Ratajkowski says. “The princess cut was more challenging. Alison and I worked together to find something that felt fresh but also timeless.” She also wanted something completely different from the toi et moi ring she was proposed to with. “I was over the original design because it has been copied so many times,” she says. “It didn't feel special anymore. [Now] I love them so much I haven't been able to take them off—I've been sleeping with them on.”

While coming up with the sleek new pieces was a fun design challenge for the duo, the deeper meaning behind the design process infused the pieces with a special feel. “It was a fun project to work on together amidst a hugely transitional period in my life,” says Ratajkowski. “The ring became symbolic to me—some kind of token or evidence of my life becoming my own again.” When she first put it on, Ratajkowski admits she felt a sense of power, in using accessorizing to change the narrative around divorce and moving on. “It's been a crazy couple of years, and finally I feel a sense of peace within myself and about the life and future I have and will continue to build with my son,” she says. “Somehow, these rings feel like a reminder that I can make myself happy in ways I never imagined.”

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含注释全文：

Emily Ratajkowski Repurposed Her Engagement Ring Into 'Divorce Rings'

From: VOGUE

You've heard of engagement rings—but have you ever heard of divorce rings? They're the latest poignant pieces that Emily Ratajkowski has added to her personal jewelry box this year.

你听过订婚戒指，但你有听过离婚戒指吗？这是艾米丽·拉塔科夫斯基（Emily Ratajkowski）今年新添入她珠宝盒中的独特首饰。

engagement /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ.mənt/ 1）表示“订婚”，英文解释为“an agreement to marry someone”如：an engagement party 订婚宴会。

2）表示“约定；约会；预约”，英文解释为“an arrangement to meet someone or do something at a particular time”如：a dinner engagement 晚餐预约，举个🌰：I'm afraid I have a previous/prior engagement (= another arrangement already made). 对不起，我已经有约了。

3）表示“交战，交火；战斗”，英文解释为“the act of beginning to fight someone, or a period of time in a war”

poignant /ˈpɔɪ.njənt/ 表示“令人痛苦的，酸楚的；深深打动人的”，英文解释为“causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness”举个🌰：The photograph awakens poignant memories of happier days. 照片唤起了对美好时光的深情追忆。

Following the model's 2022 divorce from Sebastian Bear-McClard—with whom she shares a son, Sylvester—Ratajkowski recently decided to repurpose her former engagement ring into two new ring styles, changing the original intention and sentiment around them. She debuted the so-called divorce rings on Instagram earlier this morning. “The rings represent my own personal evolution,” Ratajkowski tells Vogue in an exclusive interview. “I don't think a woman should be stripped of her diamonds just because she's losing a man.”

艾米丽于2022年与塞巴斯蒂安·贝尔-麦克拉德（Sebastian Bear-McClard）离婚后（两人育有一子），她最近决定将原本的订婚戒指重新改造成两款新的戒指，改变了戒指的初衷和情感。今天早些时候她在Instagram上首次展示了这些所谓的离婚戒指。“这些戒指代表了我的个人变化，”艾米丽在接受《Vogue》专访时说道。“我认为一个女人不应该因为失去一个男人而被剥夺她的钻石。”

repurpose /ˌriːˈpɜː.pəs/ 表示“重新利用；改变…的用途；为…找到新用途”，英文解释为“to find a new use for an idea, product, or building”举个🌰：The company's role is to repurpose print data for use on the Web. 这家公司的职责是将印刷品资料转成电子版以供网络使用。

sentiment /ˈsen.tɪ.mənt/表示“观点；意见；看法；情绪”，英文解释为“a thought, opinion, or idea based on a feeling about a situation, or a way of thinking about something”举个🌰：I don't think she shares my sentiments. 我认为她不同意我的观点。

debut /ˈdeɪ.bju/ 作动词，表示“首演，首次登台；首次亮相”，英文解释为“to perform or be introduced to the public for the first time”举个🌰：The Broadway show debuted last year to great acclaim. 这个百老汇节目去年首次演出就受到了广泛赞扬。

作名词，表示“（演员、运动员等的）首次登台，初次亮相；新事物的问世”，英文解释为“The debut of a performer or sports player is their first public performance, appearance, or recording.”举个🌰：She made her debut in a 1937 production of "Hamlet." 她在1937年《哈姆雷特》的演出中首次登台。

evolution /ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/ 表示“演化；进化”，英文解释为“the way in which living things change and develop over millions of years”如：Darwin's theory of evolution 达尔文的进化论，也可以表示“发展；演变”，英文解释为“a gradual process of change and development”如：the evolution of language 语言的发展。

exclusive /ɪkˈskluː.sɪv/ 1）表示“专用的，专有的；独有的，独占的”，英文解释为“limited to only one person or group of people”如：an exclusive interview 独家采访，举个🌰：This room is for the exclusive use of guests. 这个房间是专供客人使用的。

2）表示“昂贵的；高档的；豪华的”，英文解释为“expensive and only for people who are rich or of a high social class”如：an exclusive private club 豪华私人俱乐部。

2019年现代版「甄嬛传」？泰国王妃被剥夺全部头衔时，各大媒体几乎都用了strip这个词，后接of，strip of 1）表示“剥夺（财产、权利）；撤销（头衔）”，英文解释为“To strip someone of their property, rights, or titles means to take those things away from them.”举个🌰：The soldiers have stripped the civilians of their passports, and every other type of document. 那些士兵们已经夺走了市民的护照以及所有其他证件。

2）strip还有“脱衣服；脱光…的衣服”的意思，英文解释为“to remove your clothing, or to remove all the clothing of someone else”举个🌰：He had been stripped naked, beaten and robbed. 他被脱光衣服，遭受殴打，东西还被抢了。

3）作名词，strip /strɪp/ 表示“条，带，细长片；带状地带（或森林、水面等）”，英文解释为“a long, flat, narrow piece”如：a narrow strip of land 狭长地带。

The idea to repurpose the rings struck Ratajkowski while reading her friend Stephanie Danler's essay “The Unravelers” in The Paris Review. “[It] includes the story of her grandmother's snake ring—a ring that is made up of the different stones from her various marriages,” says Ratajkowski. “I loved the idea of a ring unabashedly representing the many lives a woman has lived.” Ratajkowski then approached her jeweler friend Alison Chemla—the creative director behind fine-jewelry brand Alison Lou—to collaborate on her new concept. Chemla was the perfect person for the project, given that she designed Ratajkowski's original engagement ring. “Emily and I spent a lot of time talking about what she wanted and how she wanted to feel when wearing the rings,” Chemla says.

艾米丽在阅读她的朋友斯蒂芬妮·丹勒（Stephanie Danler）在《巴黎评论》的文章时萌生了改造戒指的想法。艾米丽说：“文章里面提到她祖母戒指的故事，这枚戒指由她祖母在不同段婚姻中的不同宝石所组成。我喜欢这样的想法：一枚戒指毫不掩饰地代表了一个女人的多种生活。”后来，艾米丽想到了她的珠宝设计师朋友艾莉森·凯姆拉（Alison Chemla）——精品珠宝品牌Alison Lou的创意总监——想合作设计这样的新概念。凯姆拉是这个项目的最佳人选，因为就是她设计了艾米丽最初的订婚戒指。“艾米丽和我花了很多时间讨论她想要什么，以及她佩戴戒指时想要的感受，”凯姆拉这么说。

unabashedly /ˌʌn.əˈbæʃt.li/ 表示“不怕批评地；不害臊地；不难为情地”，英文解释为“in an unabashed way (= without any worry about possible criticism)”如：an unabashedly romantic story 一个毫不掩饰的浪漫故事。

To give Ratajkowski's divorce jewelry an entirely new feel, the duo landed on separating the engagement ring into two rings. “The idea of divorce is a separation, so it was always going to be splitting the ring into two separate but complementary rings,” Chemla says. Both pieces incorporated the original engagement rings' existing stones (one is a pear-shaped diamond, and the other is a princess-cut diamond) as well as platinum and 18-karat yellow gold settings. “Using the pear-shaped diamond as a pinky ring gave it real oomph,” the designer adds. “For the princess cut, we wanted to make it feel like a larger stone, so we added two trapezoid stones on either side.”

为了赋予艾米丽的离婚戒指全新的感觉，她们决定将订婚戒指分成两个戒指。“离婚的概念是一种分离，所以我打算将戒指分成两枚独立但互补的戒指。”凯姆拉说道。两枚戒指都采用了原订婚戒指上的宝石（一颗是梨形钻石，另一颗是公主方型切割钻石），以及铂金和18K黄金镶嵌底座。“将梨形钻石设计成小指戒会让戒指更有魅力，对于公主方形切割钻石，我们想让它感觉像一颗更大的钻石，所以我们在两侧各加了两颗梯形钻石。”

duo /ˈduː.oʊ/ 1）表示“二重奏演奏者；二重唱演唱者；二人组合表演者”，英文解释为“A duo is two musicians, singers, or other performers who perform together as a pair.”如：a famous dancing and singing duo. 一个著名的歌舞表演二人组。

2）表示“（有共同点的）一对人”，英文解释为“You can refer to two people together as a duo, especially when they have something in common.”举个🌰：The Giants are led by the scoring duo of Adam Courchaine and Gilbert Brule. 巨人队由得分二人搭档亚当∙库彻恩和吉尓伯特∙布鲁尓领队。

complementary /ˌkɒm.plɪˈmen.tər.i/ 表示“补充的；互补的；补足的”，英文解释为“useful or attractive together”如：complementary colours/flavours/skills 互补色/风味/技能。

📍词根“-mentary”表示"具有...性质的"，前缀“comple-”来自拉丁词"complere"，表示"填满"。想象这两个研究人员具有"互补的"技能。类似的：supplementary（补充的）.

incorporate /ɪnˈkɔː.pər.eɪt/ 1）表示“包含；将…包括在内”，英文解释为“If one thing incorporates another thing, it includes the other thing.”举个🌰：The new cars will incorporate a number of major improvements. 这种新型汽车将包含许多重大的改进。

2）表示“使并入”，英文解释为“If someone or something is incorporated into a large group, system, or area, they become a part of it.”

🎬电影《草叶》（Leaves of Grass）中的台词提到：We've been wanting to incorporate more philosophy into the curriculum. 我们一直很想在课程中增加更多的哲学课程。

公主切：一种钻石或宝石的切割方式，呈四方形，具有高度对称和光泽，常用于戒指等首饰。

platinum /ˈplæt.nəm/ 表示“铂，白金”，英文解释为“a chemical element that is an extremely valuable silver-coloured metal, used in jewellery and in industry”如：a platinum wedding ring 白金结婚戒指。

pinky = pinkie /ˈpɪŋ.ki/ 表示“小指”，英文解释为“a little finger ”如：a pinkie ring 小指戒指。

oomph /ʊmf/ 表示“精力；活力；热情”，英文解释为“power, strength, or energetic activity”举个🌰：It's important to have a person with some oomph in charge of the department. 重要的是让一个精力充沛的人掌管这个部门。

trapezoid /ˈtræp.ɪ.zɔɪd/ 英式，表示“不规则四边形”，英文解释为“a flat shape with four sides, none of which are parallel”，美式，表示“梯形”，英文解释为“a flat shape with four sides, where two of the sides are parallel”

Reference-wise, Ratajkowski says the silhouette of the two new rings took inspiration from—who else?—Rihanna. “I was very inspired by Rihanna's diamond pinky-toe ring—I liked the idea of my former wedding ring ending up on my pinky,” Ratajkowski says. “The princess cut was more challenging. Alison and I worked together to find something that felt fresh but also timeless.” She also wanted something completely different from the toi et moi ring she was proposed to with. “I was over the original design because it has been copied so many times,” she says. “It didn't feel special anymore. [Now] I love them so much I haven't been able to take them off—I've been sleeping with them on.”

艾米丽说，两枚新戒指的轮廓灵感来自蕾哈娜（Rihanna），“蕾哈娜戴的钻石小指戒给了我很大的启发，我喜欢我以前的结婚戒指戴在小指上的感觉。公主方形切割钻石更具挑战性。凯姆拉和我一起努力，寻找一种既新鲜又永恒的感觉。”她想要的是一款与当初被求婚的双石戒指完全不同的戒指。“我已经不再喜欢原来的设计了，因为它已经被复制了太多次，感觉不再特别了。我太爱改造后的新戒指，我一直戴着它们睡觉，都舍不得摘下来。”

silhouette /ˌsɪl.uˈet/ 表示“（浅色背景衬托出的）暗色轮廓；剪影，（尤指人脸的）侧影；（人的）体形，（事物的）形状”，英文解释为“the dark outline or shape of a person or an object that you see against a light background；the shape of a person's body or of an object”举个🌰：The dress is fitted to give you a flattering silhouette. 穿这件连衣裙，你显得更有身段了。

toi et moi是法语，意思是“你和我”。在珠宝设计中，这个术语通常用来描述一种特定的戒指款式，该款式特征为两颗宝石并排设置，象征着两个人的结合。

While coming up with the sleek new pieces was a fun design challenge for the duo, the deeper meaning behind the design process infused the pieces with a special feel. “It was a fun project to work on together amidst a hugely transitional period in my life,” says Ratajkowski. “The ring became symbolic to me—some kind of token or evidence of my life becoming my own again.” When she first put it on, Ratajkowski admits she felt a sense of power, in using accessorizing to change the narrative around divorce and moving on. “It's been a crazy couple of years, and finally I feel a sense of peace within myself and about the life and future I have and will continue to build with my son,” she says. “Somehow, these rings feel like a reminder that I can make myself happy in ways I never imagined.”

对两人来说，设计出时尚新品是有趣的设计挑战，而设计过程背后的深层含义，则为这两枚戒指注入了特别的感觉。“在我人生的一个重要转折期，共同完成这项设计非常有趣。”艾米丽说：“离婚戒指对我来说具有象征意义：我重新成为我自己生活的重心。”艾米丽说，当她第一次戴上离婚戒指时，她感受到了一种力量，她也希望可以以此改变人们对离婚和继续生活的看法。她说：“疯狂的几年过后，我终于感受到内心的平静，感受到我已经拥有并将继续与儿子一起创造的生活和未来。不知怎的，这些戒指就像在提醒我，我可以用自己从未想象过的方式让自己快乐。”

sleek /sliːk/ 表示“（尤指头发、衣服）平滑发亮的，整洁的；（外形）线条流畅的”，英文解释为“(especially of hair, clothes, or shapes) smooth, shiny, and lying close to the body, and therefore looking well cared for; not untidy and with no parts sticking out”举个🌰：The cat had sleek fur. 那只猫的皮毛油光发亮。

infuse /ɪnˈfjuːz/在医学上的“输注（药物等）”，英文解释为“to slowly put a drug or other substance into a person's vein”；infuse本身还有“使充满（某种感觉）；向…灌输（某一品质，某一特性）；使具有，注入（特性）”，英文解释为“to fill something or someone with a particular feeling or quality  be infused with sth”举个🌰：Her books are infused with humour and wisdom. 她的书充满了幽默和智慧。

也可表示“泡（茶）；泡制（草药）”，英文解释为“If you infuse a drink or it infuses, you leave substances such as tea leaves or herbs in hot water so that their flavour goes into the liquid.”举个🌰：Allow the tea to infuse for five minutes. 让茶泡5分钟。

symbolic /sɪmˈbɒl.ɪk/ 表示“使用象征的；作为象征的；象征性的”，英文解释为“containing symbols, or being used as a symbol”举个🌰：The dove is symbolic of peace. 鸽子是和平的象征。

accessorize /əkˈses.ər.aɪz/ 表示“为…装配附件;添加配饰于”，英文解释为“to add an accessory or accessories to something”举个🌰：She was wearing a little black dress, accessorized simply with a silver necklace. 她身穿黑色小礼服，配饰简约，一条银项链而已。

narrative /ˈnær.ə.tɪv/ 1）表示“故事；叙事”，英文解释为“A narrative is a story or an account of a series of events.”如：a fast-moving narrative 一个快节奏的叙事。

2）表示“（对事件的特定的）陈述”，英文解释为“a particular way of explaining or understanding events”。

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