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この英文訳せる方、お願いします。
長い英文ですが、いまいちよくわからなかったのでお願いします。 All through history,and all over the world,it seems that women have been willing to suffer pain,and even risk an early death,in order to make themselves appear more beautiful.For many centuries women in both East and West applied thick masks of white paint to their faces.Though most often lead-based ,this paint was also sometimes made from mercury.It had the effect of slowly poisoning the women who put it on their faces everyday.The minerals passed into the body,where they damaged the internal organs,caused tooth decay and bad breath,and most ironically of all,destroyed the skin,it gray and scarring it with deep marks.Women with this skin condition would in turn apply even thicker layers of white paint to their faces.In Europe in the eighteenth century,when white faces were the height of fashion among the rich,many young women died as a result of their makeup. What is surprising about this practice is yhat it began in accident times and continued for some 2000 years.In Babylon and Assyria lead face-paint was in common use as a beautifying cosmetic.The ancient Greek doctor,Galen,was already warning several centuries before Christ that some makeup was poisonous,and doctors continued to do so far centuries afterwards―without any success.Goverments tried to ban it,but women continued to use it and continued to die.In Japan and China the same practice lasted,as it did in the West,untill the early part of the twentieth century.In America,for example,lead-based face products were still on sale in the shops in 1911.This means that there are women alive now whose mother used lead on the skins. Despite the damage to their health,why have women so universally sought to attain a certain standard of‘beauty’?When one realizes that things such as this have gone on for thousands of years,it becomes hard to brame fashion magazines or television.Perhaps it has something to do with the setting of impossible ideals,the desire to possess the parfect beauty of the gods.And Perhaps some women―and some men,at certain times in history,and in certain cultures―have always been willing to die in exchange for a brief moment of apparently immortal beauty. 以上ですが、本当に長くてすいません。時制や重要そうな熟語などを注意して訳していただきたいです。そしてあまり極端な意訳などはしないで、そのままの意味(意訳しないと意味が通らない文は別ですが)でとらえてほしいです。もしスペル間違いがあったらすいません。
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スペル、間違ってました。ご指摘ありがとうございます。助かります。