Neil: You're listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

Would you follow the latest fashion trend on the catwalk?
　　Helen: 大家好, 我是Helen, 希望在今天的地道英語中您能學(xué)到實(shí)用的新表達(dá)。

　　Neil: Are you a fashion victim Helen?

　　Helen: I'm not sure…… 我挺喜歡時(shí)裝的。

　　Neil: A fashion victim is someone who always wears the most fashionable clothes, or follows the latest fads.

　　Helen: Fads – 短期的流行趨勢。 喜歡時(shí)尚難道是件壞事嗎？為什么這些追求時(shí)尚的人被稱為 victims 犧牲者，受害者呢?

　　Neil: They are fashion victims because they wear things which don't suit them, or look ridiculous, just because they are in fashion.

　　Helen: Ah, 原來這些人盲目地追求時(shí)尚，沒有考慮新潮流的時(shí)裝到底適不適合他們。

　　Neil: A fashion victim might wear something very unflattering, just because it's fashionable.

　　Helen: Unflattering – 不合身的，突出自己缺點(diǎn)的。

　　Example

　　A: Look at Lucy. Doesn't she look ridiculous in that dress? It doesn't suit her at all.
　　B: Yeah she's only wearing it because she saw it in a magazine. She's such a fashion victim.

　　Helen: 我們復(fù)習(xí)一下，今天我們學(xué)到的新表達(dá)是

　　Neil: Fashion victim.

　　Helen: 時(shí)尚犧牲者，指的是那些盲目追求時(shí)尚的人，對時(shí)尚其實(shí)并沒有真正的理解。

　　Neil: Goodbye.

　　Helen: 我們下次節(jié)目再見!