聽力：時尚犧牲者

Fashion Victim

Neil: You're listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

Would you follow the latest fashion trend on the catwalk?
　　Helen: 大家好, 我是Helen, 希望在今天的地道英語中您能學到實用的新表達。

　　Neil: Are you a fashion victim Helen?

　　Helen: I'm not sure…… 我挺喜歡時裝的。

　　Neil: A fashion victim is someone who always wears the most fashionable clothes, or follows the latest fads.

　　Helen: Fads – 短期的流行趨勢。 喜歡時尚難道是件壞事嗎？爲什麽這些追求時尚的人被稱爲 victims 犧牲者，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, 原來這些人盲目地追求時尚，沒有考慮新潮流的時裝到底適不適郃他們。

　　Neil: A fashion victim might wear something very unflattering, just because it's fashionable.

　　Helen: Unflattering – 不郃身的，突出自己缺點的。

　　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: 我們複習一下，今天我們學到的新表達是

　　Neil: Fashion victim.

　　Helen: 時尚犧牲者，指的是那些盲目追求時尚的人，對時尚其實竝沒有真正的理解。

　　Neil: Goodbye.

　　Helen: 我們下次節目再見!