【英语趣味课堂】打扮-Makeovers

Wendi: At my station there's a lot of weirdoes. Have you noticed?

 

Todd: There is a lot of weirdoes in the train station.

 

Wendi: There's a lot of weirdoes at my station.

 

Todd: Yeah, why do you think that? Do you think that they just like the train station or it's this area?

 

Wendi: I don't know. What do you think?

 

Todd: I don't know either. But I've lived all over Japan and I noticed that this train station is kind of.

 

Wendi: Quite strange?

Todd: Quite weird¹. Yeah, like the one guy that amazes me, is the really, really dirty guy.

 

Wendi: Yeah.

 

Todd: Super dirty guy.

 

Wendi: The dirtiest of the dirty.

 

Todd: Right, the guy that's got the long hair and it hangs down and you can't see his face and he's like caked in dirt, like if that guy took a shower it would hurt.

 

Wendi: Yeah.

 

Todd: I wonder how, and he's old.

 

Wendi: You know what would be amazing if we put him on Swan. On the Swan.

Todd: What's Swan?

 

Wendi: Swan is like this incredible makeover show where they like slice and dice² people.

 

Todd: Sort of like change his hair and give him like...

 

Wendi: Yeah and like they give people like new jaws⁴. They like just cut them up like serious. It's like extreme plastic surgery, like...

 

Todd: Is this a Canadian show?

 

Wendi: It's an American show of course.

 

Todd: Really. I've been overseas. I don't know American shows.

 

Wendi: Yeah, any ways. The swan basically like, they hang out and they find really unattractive people and they slice and dice them into like pageant⁵ queens.

Todd: Oh, wow.

 

Wendi: It's really foul⁶. But anyway's.

 

Todd: Yeah, actually that's

 

Wendi: They could turn him into a beauty.

 

Todd: Yeah, maybe he doesn't want to.

 

Wendi: It's actually really twisted this show, like it's, like I've seen shots of it kind of thing, but it's actually incredibly disturbing. Like that people would be willing to fully⁷ like, slice and dice, like they kind of do like this inventory⁸. They do like a 360 of the person, like they show then in like their bras and panty of something. I don't really know.

 

Wendi: And they like, they just do this thing down the side, like,"We are going to take out all of her teeth and you know, crack her jaw³ in five places and reduce her nose and open up her eyes and take off the left limb and whatever you know, they just like go down this list. It's just unbelievable and then they actually do it.

 

Todd: Wow!

 

Wendi: Yeah and then they end up with these people that look like drastically different but that have gone through like crazy, like, I don't know, six month-eight month surgeries and everything else to get there kind of thing. It's crazy.

1 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

2 dice   

n.骰子；vt.把（食物）切成小方块，冒险

参考例句：

• They were playing dice.他们在玩掷骰子游戏。
• A dice is a cube.骰子是立方体。

3 jaw   

n.颚，颌，说教，流言蜚语；v.喋喋不休，教训

参考例句：

• He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
• A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。

4 jaws   

n.口部；嘴

参考例句：

• The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。
• The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。

5 pageant   

n.壮观的游行；露天历史剧

参考例句：

• Our pageant represented scenes from history.我们的露天历史剧上演一幕幕的历史事件。
• The inauguration ceremony of the new President was a splendid pageant.新主席的就职典礼的开始是极其壮观的。

6 foul   

adj.污秽的；邪恶的；v.弄脏；妨害；犯规；n.犯规

参考例句：

• Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
• What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！

7 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

8 inventory   

n.详细目录，存货清单

参考例句：

• Some stores inventory their stock once a week.有些商店每周清点存货一次。
• We will need to call on our supplier to get more inventory.我们必须请供应商送来更多存货。