Unit3 Fashionable Clothing 霓裳炫影
Dialouge 1
A:Did you see the fashion awards last night?
A:你看了昨晚的時裝頒獎晚會沒有?
B:I sat through about half of it but they lost me after that.
B:我看了大約一半就走了。
A:Not interested?
A:不感興趣?
B:Not really, to be honest. Some of what they call fashion looks terri-ble to me.
B:老實說,不是很感興趣。他們所謂的一些時裝在我看來太差勁了。
A:But they are showing what will be all the rage next year.
A:但他們展出的是一些明年要流行的時裝。
B:All the rage with whom? I never see anyone wearing these designs on the street.
B:流行個鬼!我從來就沒有看到街上有誰會穿這個。
A:Did you know that fashion is cyclical?
A:你知道流行的潮流是循環(huán)往復(fù)的嗎?
B:What,it keeps coming back?
B:什么?還可以再流行以前的?
A:Precisely!For example,Flares were popular for a while,then went out of fashion. Now we can start to see them coming back in again.
A:沒錯!喇叭褲就曾經(jīng)流行了.陣子,隨后過時了。現(xiàn)在,我們發(fā)現(xiàn)它又開始流行起來了。
B:Flares?
B:喇叭褲?
A:They're also known as bell-bottoms. They are a type of trousers.
A:他們是種鐘形褲管的褲子。
B:lt's too complicated.I'II just stick to the plain clothes.
B:太復(fù)雜了。我還是簡簡單單的算了。
A:That's fine, but then you'II always look plain.
A:那也可以,但你看起來可就顯得老土了。