A：Did you see the fashion awards last night?
你看了昨晚的時裝頒獎晚會沒有?
B：I sat through about half of it but they lost me after that.
我看了大約一半就走了。
A：Not interested?
不感興趣?
B：Not really, to be honest. Some of what they call fashion looks terrible to me.
老實說，不是很感興趣。他們所謂的一些時裝在我看來太差勁了。
A：But they are showing what will be all the rage next year.
但他們展出的是一些明年要流行的時裝。
B：All the rage with whom? I never see anyone wearing these designs on the street.
流行個鬼!我從來就沒有看到街上有誰會穿這個。
A：Did you know that fashion is cyclical?
你知道流行的潮流是循環(huán)往復的嗎?
B：What, it keeps coming back?
什么?還可以再流行以前的?
A：Precisely! For example,Flares were popular for a while, then went out of fashion. Now we can start to see them coming back in again.
沒錯!喇叭褲就曾經(jīng)流行了陣子，隨后過時了?，F(xiàn)在，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)它又開始流 行起來了。
B：Flares?
喇叭褲?
A：They're also known as bell-bottoms. They are a type of trousers.
他們是種鐘形褲管的褲子。
B：It's too complicated.I'll just stick to the plain clothes.
太復雜了。我還是簡簡單單的算了。
A：That's fine, but then you'll always look plain.
那也可以，但你看起來可就顯得老土了。