美語情景對話 第911期:Changes in Appearance 外表的變化

Alex: So Maria, I thought we'd just talk about things like what would you like to change about yourself? What would you like to change about your appearance?

亞歷克斯：瑪麗亞，我們來看看你想改變自己嗎？你想改變自己的外表嗎？

Maria: Well, I don't like to think about changing myself. I like how people look from the birth, if you can say that, but if I should choose I would like to change my height because I'm very tall and it does cause a problem when I'm looking for a guy especially since in the past I happen to fall for shorter guys and I got issues because they were always being intimidated by my height especially when I wore heels so I would like to be, like have my body because I do like my long legs but just be shorter and not be taller than everybody as I am at the moment, all of my friends.

瑪麗亞：我不想改變我自己。我喜歡人們天生的樣子，但是如果可以選擇，我希望能改變我的身高，因爲我實在太高了，這在找男朋友時給我帶來了問題，我以前喜歡過個子比我矮的男生，可是我穿高跟鞋的時候總是會把他們嚇到，我很喜歡我的身材，我也確實喜歡我的大長腿，可是我想矮一點，身高不要超過我周圍的朋友。

Alex: I guess that would also lead to you having problems finding shoes and clothes and stuff like that?

亞歷克斯：我想你在買鞋和買衣服時也遇到了問題吧？

Maria: Indeed, yes. I have to watch out. Well in my country it's not a problem to find shoe sizes because we are a very tall people normally so shoes are big and clothes are big but when I travel, I went to China to visit a friend and I wanted to go shopping and it's impossible to find shoes and long pants and fitting bras too, if you can imagine. So I would like to change my height but otherwise I might change like my weight for example or I have changed my hair color several times. I went from black to blonde to black to red to blonde so otherwise I think I'm fine with me.

瑪麗亞：沒錯。這是我要注意的地方。在我們國家買鞋並不是問題，因爲我們那裏的人都很高，所以鞋碼很大，衣服尺寸也很大，可是我旅行時就不同了，我之前去中國拜訪一個朋友，我想去購物，可是我發現很難找到我能穿的鞋，也沒有合適的長褲和內衣，你能想象嗎？所以我想改變我的身高，除此之外我可能會改變我的體重，另外我頭髮的顏色已經換過好幾次了。我從黑色染成金色，又換回黑色，然後又染成紅色，再染成金色，除此之外，我對自己很滿意。

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重點講解：
1. would like to do sth. （表示願意）想要；
例句：I would like to talk to you for a minute.
我想和你談一下。
2. fall for 迷戀；愛上；
例句：He was fantastically handsome — I just fell for him right away.
他帥極了——我一下子就愛上了他。
3. at the moment 此刻；目前；眼下；
例句：He's dealing with his post at the moment.
他此刻正在處理信件。
4. watch out 小心，提防(不愉快的事情或陷入困境)；
例句：I advised them to watch out for slick spots on the sidewalk.
我叫他們當心人行道上路滑的地方。