美語情景對話 第592期:Clothes and Colors 衣服和顏色

Todd: What's your favorite color?

託德：你最喜歡什麼顏色？

Wendi: Me?

溫迪：我嗎？

Todd: Yeah. You're the only one here.

託德：對。現在只有你在這裏。

Wendi: Good point. Favorite color — green.

溫迪：說得對。我最喜歡的顏色是綠色。

Todd: Yeah. Why green?

託德：爲什麼喜歡綠色？

Wendi: I don't know. I just chose on really. I don't know. These days I kind of like green, but it changes all the time.

溫迪：我也不知道。只是選了綠色。我也不清楚。最近我比較喜歡綠色，不過我喜歡的顏色總是會變。

Todd: Like seasonally? You have your favorite color for the season?

託德：隨季節變化嗎？根據季節的不同，你喜歡的顏色也會不同嗎？

Wendi: I think it's more of a monthly thing.

溫迪：可能每個月都會變。

Todd: Right.

託德：好。

Wendi: You?

溫迪：你呢。

Todd: Well, purple. I love the color purple.

託德：我喜歡紫色。我非常喜歡紫色。

Wendi: Why is that?

溫迪：爲什麼？

Todd: I don't know really. Same thing I guess and I never wear purple. I mean, I don't have purple clothes. I don't have anything purple in my room, but.

託德：其實我也不清楚。和你一樣，不過我從來不穿紫色的衣服。我是說，我沒有紫色的衣服。我房間裏也沒有紫色的物品，不過我就是喜歡。

Wendi: You should have a purple suit.

溫迪：你應該買套紫色西裝。

Todd: A zoot suit. A purple suit.

託德：一套紫色的佐特套裝。

Wendi: Yeah, just for one on those days when you're feeling it. You could pull it off.

溫迪：對，哪天你可以穿出來。

Todd: A yellow shirt maybe and purple tie.

託德：黃色襯衫配紫色領帶。

Wendi: No, and a purple shirt too and a purple tie, some purple patent shoes and a purple brief case.

溫迪：不好，還是紫色襯衫配紫色領帶，再搭配一雙紫色皮鞋，拿一個紫色公文包。

Todd: I'm not sure it's going to go with my complexion.

託德：我不確定這套搭配是否適合我的膚色。

Wendi: No, I think it will work.

溫迪：我覺得很適合。

Todd: Purple hat, suede hat.

託德：再戴一個紫色的羊皮帽。

Wendi: I see it all right now. It looks good.

溫迪：我覺得很好。看起來很好。

Todd: OK, what's a color you don't like?

託德：好，你不喜歡哪個顏色？

Wendi: A color I don't like. I'll show you a color I don't like, but I don't know if there's a name for it, the closest name would probably be mustard.

溫迪：不喜歡的顏色。我可以給你看一下我不喜歡的顏色，不過我不確定那個顏色的準確說法，大概就是芥末黃這個顏色。

Todd: Like this green.

託德：就像這種綠色一樣嗎？

Wendi: You think that's a green. See I think that's more of baby diarrhea.

溫迪：你覺得那是種綠色。我認爲那更接近於嬰兒腹瀉的顏色。

Todd: It does actually look like baby diarrhea.

託德：看起來的確像嬰兒腹瀉的顏色。

Wendi: It is quite baby diarrhea. Have you ever had to change a baby's diaper?

溫迪：就是很像嬰兒腹瀉的顏色。你給嬰兒換過尿布嗎？

Todd: Of course.

託德：當然換過。

Wendi: Yeah, it's kind of, it's about that color and that's one that I don't like. Yeah, it's bad isn't it.

溫迪：對，就是那種顏色，那就是我不喜歡的顏色。那顏色很糟，是吧？

Todd: That is disgusting.

託德：有點兒噁心。

Wendi: There's a story behind those pants.

溫迪：關於這條褲子有個有意思的故事。

Todd: Oh, yeah, what's the story behind the pants?

託德：這條褲子有什麼有意思的故事？

Wendi: I think no one would buy them so they got heavily discounted and so I purchased them and then when I got home, I was like, "Wait a second! I know why no one else would buy those cause they're so ugly."

溫迪：我覺得是因爲沒有人買這樣的褲子，所以這褲子的折扣很低，所以我買了下來，然後我回家以後，我突然想到：等等，我知道爲什麼沒人買這褲子了，因爲它們太醜了！

Todd: What, you were working at a clothing store?

託德：你在服裝店工作嗎？

Wendi: No, I was shopping.

溫迪：不是，我是去購物的。

Todd: And you noticed that no one buying these poor pants and you're like, 'I must buy them."

託德：你是注意到沒人買那褲子然後你覺得你一定要買下來嗎？

Wendi: Yeah. No, actually, I think like whenever I buy stuff, cause it's not often, my first thing is I look at the price tag and I was like, "Ah, dam, a thousand yen, I could use some work pants." And then I bought them and well, they've never been worn, but a little while later.

溫迪：其實不是，我不經常買東西，所以我購物的時候第一件事就是看價格標籤，所以當時我想：天哪，1000日元，我可以買來當作工作褲。然後我就買了，後來我一直沒有穿過，不過之後……

Todd: Well, you've actually never worn these things?

託德：你從來沒穿過這些衣服嗎？

Wendi: I've never worn them.

溫迪：沒穿過。

Todd: Come on, you gotta, you know bust out.

託德：你要勇於嘗試。

Wendi: I can't bust out. It's like me busting out in those is akin to you busting out in the purple suit. It's just not going to happen.

溫迪：我做不到。對我來說，穿這樣的褲子就像你穿紫色西裝一樣。是永遠不會發生的事情。

Todd: Yeah, but you see, I would actually have to spend a lot of money. I would wear the purple suit but I just don't want to go buy it. If I actually had it I'd probably wear it.

託德：你看，我要穿紫色西裝就要花一大筆錢。我會穿紫色西裝，不過我只是不想買紫色西裝。如果我有紫色西裝，那我就會穿的。

Wendi: That's dishonest because if I got you a purple suit, you would not wear it.

溫迪：你說的不是真話，如果我給你買一套紫色西裝，你還是不會穿的。

Todd: Oh, buy it. I'll wear it.

託德：哦，你買吧。我會穿的。

Wendi: Oh, no way. There's not way you would.

溫迪：不可能。你肯定不會穿的。

Todd: Because you know what, the greatest thing about being a teacher is you can wear whatever you want.

託德：你知道，當老師最棒的事情就是你可以想穿什麼衣服就穿什麼。

Wendi: That's kind of true.

溫迪：這倒是事實。

Todd: You know because they expect you to have no fashion sense anyway.

託德：不過他們認爲你沒有時尚品味。

Wendi: For sure.

溫迪：沒錯。

Todd: So.

託德：是嗎？

Wendi: It is true actually.

溫迪：其實這沒錯。

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重點講解：
1. go with 跟…相配；
例句：The actress wanted a hat to go with her dress.
女演員需要一頂與衣服相配的帽子。
2. be akin to 相似的；類似的；
例句：Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.
聽他的人生故事猶如閱讀一本精彩的冒險小說。
3. no way 沒門兒；不可能；
例句：You expect me to do that, No way!
你想我會那樣做？不可能的。
4. for sure 無疑；肯定；
例句：Why this universal law prevails we cannot say for sure.
這個普遍規律爲什麼存在，我們尚不能確切地說明。