雅思寫作：流行時尚
By Mr. Jeenn Lee Hsieh
謝振禮老師海外投稿
>In some countries people are strongly influenced by fashion, such as clothing and hairstyle. What in your opinion attracts people to fashion? Is this a positive or negative development?
在有些國家，人們受到流行時尚強烈的影響，比方說衣著和髪型。依你之見，到底什么原因，人們會如此受到時髦的吸引？這種趨勢應該是好還是不好的現(xiàn)象？
雅思范文
謝振禮解說
Being a popular expression of social and economic realities, fashion represents in part the world in progress and influences people more on the positive side than otherwise. It is in plain sight that what attracts people to fashion is as much a social vanity to look good as a necessity to catch up with the economic mainstream. The development of fashion is closely associated with social freedom and economic well-being.
流行時尚代表一部分進步中的世界，其影響應該是正面的，因為它是表達社會與經(jīng)濟現(xiàn)實的大眾心聲。誰都看得出來，人們所以會被流行吸引，一則是社會上的虛榮心，大家都想要樣子好看，一則是大家覺得有需要追逐經(jīng)濟主流?？隙ǖ恼f，流行趨勢的發(fā)展與自由社會和小康經(jīng)濟有密切的關聯(lián)。
The inclination to keep steps with the in-coming fashion is human nature and must be considered as a social right. Society, as changing, looks for the newest, and if economically possible, the best. Thus, people are free to want the latest in clothing and the greatest in hairstyle. Indeed, when one looks at fashion, it catches the eyes that fashion advances as do all things--ideas, culture, technology, working conditions, among others. In fact, fashion reflects a society in evolution, of course with paces quicker today than in the past. So fast indeed that, more often than not, what looks fashionable now is likely to be soon out of date, if not completely out of style.
傾向于新潮流同步，乃是人性使然，所以應該把趕時髦看成社會權(quán)利。話說改變中的社會，凡事都要最新潮流的，而卻，如果經(jīng)濟許可，還要最好的。這樣一來，衣服要穿新款，髪型要最贊的。冷眼觀之，時髦是不斷前進，與別的事情一摸一樣--觀念，文化，科技，工作環(huán)境，等等都在前進。事實上，流行時尚根本是在反應進化中的社會，只不過今日所走的腳步比從前要快的多了。真的，進化如此之快，快得好像今日的時髦，很快就要過時，即使有些格調(diào)不至于完全消失。
Fashion can be bought, and for that nobody is to blame. It thrives on economic surplus more than any other thing. That is probably why before the Industrial Revolution trends did not change as much and as often as they do today. Further, with the arrival of the Electronic Age, people tend to dress and adorn themselves from head to toe in tune with the changing economic outlook. Small wonder that some younger people go as far as imitating celebrities like pop signers and Hollywood stars. Addiction to fashion is, however, more true of better-off people, particularly women who seem intending to annoy other women.
只要有錢就買得到時髦，這一點倒不能怪誰。要不是財務有余，別的因素不致于會讓時髦趨勢如此應運而生。君不見在工業(yè)革命之前，流行潮流不像今天一樣大改變而常改變。接著電子時代的來臨，人們更是從頭到腳都按經(jīng)濟的外貌裝飾自己。不足為奇的，大有年輕人極度的模仿當今名人模樣，打扮得如流行歌手和好萊塢的大明星。這種被流行時尚套牢的現(xiàn)象，在富足者身上特別明顯，尤其是女人，好似女人打扮時髦是想與別的女人大別苗頭。
Accordingly, it is understandable that those who are more vulnerable to the influence of fashion are people in better social and economic conditions, as is the case of some countries whose changes are more sensitively felt. As a rule, vanity in social freedom and prosperity in economic outlook join forces in allowing fashion to play its influential role. Perhaps, a possible exception to the rule is a beggar who can wear anything in whatever color, entirely indifferent to what fashion has to say about this changing world, and fears none.
如此說來，大致可以理解一點，也就是說，凡比較受時髦影響的那些人，同時也是社會與經(jīng)濟情況比較好的那些人，這種說法可以從若干國家中看得出來，因為它們對改變的現(xiàn)象有高度敏感。幾乎毫無例外，社會自由造成的虛榮，加上經(jīng)濟外貌的繁榮，共同允許時髦能扮演足具影響力的腳色。也許應該提出一個例外，也只有乞丐才無所謂穿什么衣服，也不管什么顏色，忘然一切，時尚所言的多變世界，無所畏懼。