名牌服飾淺談
露西：有些牌子值得多花一點錢，特別是因為他們的好品質。
現在快時尚實在是太氾濫了。
露比：什麼快時尚?
露西：妳知道的，就是便宜的流行服飾，人們穿個幾次就會丟掉的那種。
那對環境真的很不好。
妳知道美國人每人平均一年丢掉大概三十七公斤的衣物嗎?
露比：真的?我不知道。 不過，能花十五美元買到一件恤，又何必付七十五美元呢?
露西：因為品質真的完全不一樣啊。
露比：通常是沒錯啦。不過我還是覺得要看買什麼東西而定。我都會買中等價位的衣服；只因為付了高價未必就表示品質一定好上許多。
露西：嗯，反正我覺得擁有一些名牌外套和鞋子這樣的基本品項很好。喔，還有皮包！我可以用很多年！
露比：我倒不會真的想把東西留著很多年。真正時髦的衣服就穿一季還比較有樂趣
露西：名牌衣服也很時髦啊。
露比：但是，如果妳只用一個東西一季的話，它還值那麼多錢嗎? 還是那只是炫耀?
露西：這倒是有道理。
嘿，我們點菜吧
露比：好啊。我都快餓死了。這裡有什麼好吃的?
fashion（n.）時尚
fast fashion
She talks about cheap, trendy clothes that people wear a handful of times and then
throw away. So that's the idea with fast fashion is that it's a fashion or style that is really just trendy for the moment, but then it's going to go out of fashion or go out of style pretty soon, and you’ll have to get some new ones.
快時尚是指可以在很短的時間將時裝周中展出的潮流服飾推出的商業模式。對於消費者來說，可以在很短的時間，以低廉的價格，買到新潮的服飾。
Faith is very interested in fashion.對流行時尚感興趣
Marie Claire is an extremely popular fashion magazine in Europe.
《Marie Claire美麗佳人》是本每月出版的女性雜誌，最初於法國發行，隨後亦在各國以當地語言發行各國版本。每個國家的版本都鎖定特定客群，唯美國版針對世界各國的女性，與其他國際議題。雜誌議題涵蓋健康、美學與時尚。
fashion（v.）製造；塑造
to make something using your hands
Sybil fashioned the ground meat into little meatballs for the spaghetti sauce.絞碎豬肉做肉丸
handful（n.）一把；少數
an amount of something that can be held in o ne hand一把
a small number of people or things少數，少量
Only a handful of people attended the opening開幕 night of the play.
Paul gave his mother the handful of shells that he had found on the beach that morning.
handful（n.）難以控制的人或動物
a person, often a child, who is difficult to control難對付的人（常指小孩）
Margie's twins are really a handful and keep her running from morning till night.
Her older son is fine but the little one is a bit of a handful.
她的大兒子很乖，但小兒子有點難管。
a sweat shop血汗工廠
A sweatshop, the people who work there, they're employed at really low wages for really long hours and in really poor conditions.
So they make a large amount of something to sell, and then they switch to the next thing very, very quickly.
consumerism [kənˋsjumərɪzm]
So that's the idea of doing something to promote or give to what the consumer or the buyer really wants.
（n.）保護消費者利益運動（1960年代由Ralph Nader在美國發起）；消費主義（主張消費刺激經濟）
the situation in which too much attention is given to buying and owning things
（過分強調購買和擁有商品的）消費主義
He disliked Christmas and its rampant (= extreme) consumerism.
他不喜歡聖誕節和聖誕節期間狂熱的購物潮。
be a conscious consumer有意識的消費
Not just buy something because you think it looks good and you like it, but to actually do a little bit of research on the company that made that product before you buy it so you know a little bit more about what you're supporting.
throwaway culture
一次性社會是對受到消費主義強烈影響的人類社會概念的概括描述，在這種社會中，社會趨向於使用過多的一次性物品，一次性包裝以及非設計用於重複使用或終生使用的普通消費品。該術語描述了對過度消費和過度生產短期或一次性物品而不是可以修理的耐久財的批判性看法，但從其起源來看，它被視為一種積極的屬性。
Quality vs. quantity.
It means that quantity or how much of something you have isn’t what’s most important. It’s the quality of what you have that matters most. 這意味著您擁有的東西的數量或數量並不是最重要的。最重要的是你所擁有的東西的質量。
Kara’s friend has a closet full of clothes. She has a lot of clothes and keeps buying
more clothes, many of which she doesn't even wear. She focuses on quantity or how much she has.
fashionable（adj.）時髦的；流行的
Ella's fashionable shoes and clothes always make her look like she just stepped out of a fashion magazine.像從時尚雜誌走出來
Michelle Obama is still a fashionable guest to have on talk shows.
fashionable（adj.）上流社會的；高級的
You have to make reservations three months in advance to eat at that fashionable Italian restaurant on Grand Avenue.
starve（v.）飢餓；挨餓【比hungry還餓；快餓死了】
Johnny told his mom he was starving and needed a snack immediately.
Scientists have stated that unless polar bears learn to adapt their diets due to climate change, they will starve to death.將會餓死
starved（adj.）飢渴；渴望的
When Alice was studying in Berlin last year, she was always starved for news from her family. 渴望家人的消息
worth the money物有所值
brush one’s hair
You look weird.
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