实用英语：Fashion Victim 时尚牺牲者

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　　Neil: You're listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. I'm
Neil.
        　　Helen: 大家好, 我是Helen, 希望在今天的地道英语中您能学到实用的新表达。
        　　Neil: Are you a fashion victim Helen?
        　　Helen: I'm not sure... 我挺喜欢时装的。
        　　Neil: A fashion victim is someone who always wears the most fashionable
clothes, or follows the latest fads.
        　　Helen: Fads – 短期的流行趋势。 喜欢时尚难道是件坏事吗?为什么这些追求时尚的人被称为 victims 牺牲者，受害者呢?
        　　Neil: They are fashion victims because they wear things which don’t suit
them, or look ridiculous, just because they are in fashion.
        　　Helen: Ah, 原来这些人盲目地追求时尚，没有考虑新潮流的时装到底适不适合他们。
        　　Neil: A fashion victim might wear something very unflattering, just because
it's fashionable.
        　　Helen: Unflattering – 不合身的，突出自己缺点的。
        　　Example
        　　A: Look at Lucy. Doesn't she look ridiculous in that dress? It doesn't suit
her at all.
        　　B: Yeah she's only wearing it because she saw it in a magazine. She's such
a fashion victim.
        　　Helen: 我们复习一下，今天我们学到的新表达是
        　　Neil: Fashion victim.
        　　Helen: 时尚牺牲者，指的是那些盲目追求时尚的人，对时尚其实并没有真正的理解。
        　　Neil: Goodbye.
        　　Helen: 我们下次节目再见!