地道美語怎麼說 第37課:修身
Jessica在北京學漢語，她的中國朋友要是遇到了不知道用美語怎麼說的詞，就會來請教她。今天是方方要問的：修身。
Jessica:Fangfang, You look different! Did you lose weight?
FF:纔沒有呢! 是這件衣服好，穿上顯瘦，特修身!
Jessica:修身養性？也能讓人顯瘦？
FF:不是那個修身，是修飾身材. The clothes make me look slim.
Jessica:I see. You can say the clothes are figure flattering. "flattering" is spelled f-l-a-t-t-e-r-i-n-g.
FF:figure是身材，flatter是恭維，兩個詞放在一起，figure flattering，身材顯得更好，也就是修身!
Jessica:Right! For example, A lot of women find black to be a figure flattering color.
FF:對! 黑色特修身。不過，要想嘗試各種風格的打扮，不能光靠衣服，還得身材好。瘦纔是王道!
Jessica: you going on a diet?
FF:Go on a diet? 節食？沒錯! 雖然我已經不是頭一次減肥，但這次不同，我要來個地獄式的節食減肥!
Jessica:地獄？Hell? Oh, You must be referring to a crash diet, where people stop eating, exercise like crazy and do extreme things to lose weight quickly.
FF:對! 不吃，狂運動，迅速瘦身! 原來地獄式節食就是a crash diet. c-r-a-s-h, crash. 我拼得對麼？
Jessica:Correct. But Fangfang, it's a painful process, isn't it?
FF:可不是麼! 我這幾天頭暈眼花，就是因爲吃太少。Jessica, 待會兒咱們去吃烤鴨吧!
Jessica:你不減肥啦？
FF:就一頓嘛，放縱一下!
Jessica:Be careful! This is binge eating! Binge is spelled b-i-n-g-e. Binge eating is when you eat a lot more food in one meal than you usually do.
FF:我明白了，binge eating就是暴飲暴食。
Jessica:對! I hope you can get slimmer in a healthy way. But now, let's see what you've learned today!
FF:第一，修飾身材叫 figure flattering；
第二，節食叫go on a diet，地獄式節食是a crash diet；
第三，暴飲暴食是binge eating。
