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词汇 beauty is only ­ skin-­deep
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beauty is only ­ skin-­deep.  Skin-­deep, for “superficial” or “shallow,” “penetrating no deeper than the skin,” can be traced back to the early 17th century, as can the proverbial beauty is only ­skin-­deep, expressing the limitations of beauty. The last ex- pression is first recorded in a poem by Thomas Overbury in about 1613: “All the carnall beauty of my wife,/Is but ­ skin- ­deep.” Skin-­deep, literally, can range from 1/10th of an inch on the eyelid to 1⁄5th of an inch on the back.
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