美語情景對話 第813期:Getting Groomed 打扮

Jess: OK, so Tom, I've told you all about my beauty regime. You look very well groomed. Could you tell me what do you do to keep yourself looking good?

傑西：湯姆，我之前跟你說了我的美容程序。你看起來很整潔。你能跟我說說你如何讓自己看起來不錯嗎？

Tom: Well, thank you Jess. I mean this look is the product of many stages of evolution. When I was a teenager, I had long hair pulled back in a pony-tail, but at that time I wasn't growing a beard yet so I did get mistaken for a girl, so since then I've had short hair. There have been some periods when I've been traveling and when I'm traveling I don't like to bother too much about grooming, and my beard has started to grow, and it was a couple of years back that I went back to my job after traveling. I didn't have time to shave, and my colleagues and students saw me with a full beard, and to be honest they weren't as rude as I thought there were going to be, and I thought well maybe this looks good, so I thought I'd keep that. The beard lasted perhaps a year and then it began disappearing and appearing according to my whim and now I've settled on a goatee which is where I shave my cheeks and underneath my chin, but I keep the mustache and and beard around my mouth. I've never grown sideburns because I'm a little embarrassed to say, I've never managed to get the connection between my beard and my hair. There's a little gap just by my ears which never has quite grown hair, so that's where we got to where we are today.

湯姆：謝謝你，傑西。我現在的樣子經歷了不同的階段。我在青少年時期留長髮，梳個馬尾，當時我還沒有長鬍子，所以我經常被誤認爲是女孩，從那以後我就開始留短髮了。有一段時期我四處旅行時，不太在意打扮，那時我開始長鬍子，我旅行了幾年後回來工作。當時我沒時間剃鬍子，我的同事和學生看到的是我滿臉鬍子的樣子，說實話，他們並沒有像我想的那樣無禮，所以我認爲這個造型可能還不錯，我就一直維持這個造型。我的鬍子造型大概持續了一年的時間，之後看我的心情，我可能會把鬍子剪掉，也可能會留鬍子，現在我決定留山羊鬍，把臉上和下巴的鬍子剃掉，保留嘴部周圍的鬍子。我從來沒留過鬢角，這說起來有點尷尬，因爲我從來沒能讓我的鬍子和頭髮連起來。我的耳朵周圍會有縫隙，那裏從來沒長過毛髮，這就是我的樣子的變化過程。

Jess: And have you ever removed hair from, waxed or shaved or any other part method from any other part of your body?

傑西：你有沒有刮過身體其他部分的毛髮？

Tom: Do you mean my legs? No, I have never shaved my legs. I'm not a very hairy guy, but I just don't feel comfortable with men shaving their legs. A friend at university was a cyclist and he always shaved his legs and I thought it was strange because ... I mean, seriously, is wind resistance that important that you need to shave your legs to get the extra bit of speed on a bicycle, but he explained to me, "No", it's to do with evening after cycling and you have to get a sports massage and a massage is much easier if you don't have hair on your legs. I always thought it was about wind resistance, but I was completely wrong.

湯姆：你是指腿嗎？沒有，我從來沒有刮過腿毛。我的體毛不是那麼多，而且我對男性刮腿毛感到很不自在。我大學時有個朋友是自行車選手，他經常刮腿毛，我認爲那很奇怪，說正經的，我以爲是因爲風的阻力，他要刮掉腿毛以便在騎行時獲得額外的速度，可是他給我的解釋是，“不是，這是爲了騎行後晚上的活動，晚上我要進行運動按摩，腿毛不多的話，按摩更容易些。”我一直以爲是因爲風的阻力的原因，原來我完全弄錯了。

Jess: So, it sounds like in comparison to mine your beauty regime is very simple.

傑西：和我的美容程序比起來，你的簡直太簡單了。

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重點講解：
1. a couple of 兩個；幾個；
例句：The committee is going into recess for a couple of weeks.
委員會打算休會幾個星期。
2. to be honest 老實說；說實在的；
例句：To be honest, playing tennis isn't my favorite sport.
說實話，打網球並不是我最喜歡的運動。
3. settle on 選擇；選定；
例句：We must settle on a place to meet.
咱們得把見面的地點定下來。
4. in comparison to 與…相比；與…比較而言；
例句：My worries suddenly seemed to pale in comparison to the problems of Jackson.
但和傑克遜的麻煩一比，我的憂慮簡直算不得什麼。