美語情景對話 第792期:Fashion Sense 時尚品味

Todd: Well, what about clothes? Like, are you a brand name person?

託德：衣服呢？你追求名牌嗎？

Melissa: No, not at all. That's not my style.

梅莉莎：不，我不買名牌。那不是我的風格。

Todd: Yeah, so what determines your style? What influences you?

託德：好，那你是什麼風格？買衣服時哪方面會影響你？

Melissa: Well, what I do when I go shopping. I usually have something in mind that I want to buy, so either a certain color or just a certain item of clothing and then I look around at all the different shops and compare the best prices and things like that, and then I'll buy the one that's the best deal and I'll feel really good about it.

梅莉莎：我購物時的情況。我在逛街時，通常已經想好了要買的東西，我會想好要買的顏色和款式，然後去各個商店逛，比較價格，我會買下價格最划算我也覺得不錯的那件衣服。

Todd: So for your style, do you look around and also you say, "Oh, I like what that person's wearing. I wanna dress this style" or do you just think, you have your own style and you don't care if it fits into a mold.

託德：那有關你的風格，你在逛街時會不會看到某個人的衣服，會想：哦，我喜歡那個人穿的衣服，我也想要那樣的裙子，還是你認爲你有自己的風格，你不在乎是否和別人一樣。

Melissa: I think it's a mix. I think that sometimes I'll see something that someone's wearing and I'll like it or want something similar and then of course that mixes in with things I already have, but I also like to make my own clothes, and remake clothes and things and things like that, so sometimes I'll remake something and realize that I need a sweater or something to go with it and then I'll just buy it based on something else I already have.

梅莉莎：兩種都有吧。有時我會覺得其他人穿的衣服很好看，我也想要件類似的，和我的衣服進行搭配，另外我也會自己做衣服，改衣服，有時我改完衣服以後，發現我需要件毛衣來搭配這件衣服，那我就會依據我已有的衣服，去挑選可以搭配的衣服。

Todd: Oh, so you make your own clothes.

託德：哦，你自己做衣服。

Melissa: Yeah, I don't do it from scratch a lot. Sometimes I'll go to a craft store and buy fabric and then cut it up and make a shirt from fabric, but often take a shirt or pants I already have and make into something. Like, I recently was living with a couple of roommates and my roommate was getting rid of all her old jeans so I cut her jeans up and cut a sweater up I had and then I made it into a jacket.

梅莉莎：對，我並不經常做新衣服。有時我會去手工品店買布料，裁剪以後做成短裙，不過多數時候我會用我的襯衫和褲子去改衣服。現在，我和幾個室友一起住，有一個室友要處理掉她的舊牛仔褲，所以我把她的牛仔褲裁剪了一下，又裁了我的一件毛衣，然後用這兩件做成了一件夾克。

Todd: Oh, nice.

託德：哦，真好。

Melissa: Yeah.

梅莉莎：對。

Todd: And you still have it.

託德：現在你還在穿 。

Melissa: Totally. I wear it all time.

梅莉莎：沒錯，我一直在穿。

Todd: Cool. Alright, well, thanks Melissa.

託德：真酷。好，謝謝你，梅莉莎。

Melissa: No problem.

梅莉莎：不客氣。

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重點講解：
1. have in mind 在考慮；想要；
例句：I do not know whom he have in mind for the job.
我不知道他想讓誰來做這項工作。
2. from scratch 從零開始；從頭做起；白手起家；
例句：When it comes to getting organized, you don't need to start from scratch.
整理文件時,您無須從頭開始。
3. make into 把…變成；使…成爲；
例句：We made it into a beautiful home.
我們把這裏變成了美麗的家園。
4. get rid of 扔掉；丟棄；
例句：They asked us to get rid of these old cars.
他們要求我們把這些舊車處理掉。