Neil: You're listening to Real English from BBC Learning¹ English. I'm Neil.

Helen: 大家好, 我是Helen, 希望在今天的地道英语中您能学到实用的新表达。

Neil: Are you a fashion victim Helen?

Helen: I'm not sure... 我挺喜欢时装的。

Neil: A fashion victim is someone who always wears the most fashionable clothes, or follows the latest fads².

Helen: Fads – 短期的流行趋势。 喜欢时尚难道是件坏事吗？为什么这些追求时尚的人被称为 victims 牺牲者，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, 原来这些人盲目地追求时尚，没有考虑新潮流的时装到底适不适合他们。

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

Helen: Unflattering – 不合身的，突出自己缺点的。

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: 我们复习一下，今天我们学到的新表达是

Neil: Fashion victim.

Helen: 时尚牺牲者，指的是那些盲目追求时尚的人，对时尚其实并没有真正的理解。

Neil: Goodbye.

Helen: 我们下次节目再见!