Tanning（在线收听）

　　BBC Learning English6 Minute EnglishTanningNB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript6 Minute English ? bbclearningenglish.com 2009Page 1 of 4Kate: Hello, I’m Kate Colin and this is 6 minute English and today I'm joined byRebecca Byrne. Hi Rebecca.
　　Rebecca: Hi Kate.
　　Kate: Well, I'm happy to say that summer is finally here and the sun is shining(although in the UK we can never be sure for how long ….). But, for themoment anyway, everyone seems to be sunning themselves outside in parksand gardens while they try to build up their tans.
　　Rebecca: Yes, the practice of 'tanning' or making your skin go brown is very popularwith some people here in the UK. It's probably because the weather is not sogood for most of the year and people associate being tanned with feeling andlooking healthy.
　　Kate: Tanning is so popular that often you can see very dark, tanned people in themiddle of winter which is always rather surprising…Rebecca: Well yes, but I'm sorry to tell you in most cases it's unlikely that their tan willbe real. Most of the time, it's fake and comes from a special cream or fromgoing on a sunbed. A sunbed is a machine which produces light similar tosunlight. You can lie down on it and it gives you a tan similar to one youwould get if you sunbathed on a beach. So you can see why sunbeds are theypopular in colder countries!
　　6 Minute English ? bbclearningenglish.com 2009Page 2 of 4Kate: But being tanned or brown hasn't always been desirable in our society. Here'smy question for this week. Which designer first made it fashionable to havetanned skin?
　　a) Yves Saint Laurentb) Coco Channelc) Gianni VersaceRebecca: answersKate: We'll find out the correct answer at the end of the programme. Having a tan isregarded differently all over the world. In some countries it's seen as attractiveand in other parts of the world, people want to be as pale as possible.
　　What about you Rebecca, are you trying to get a tan this summer?
　　Rebecca: answersKate: I'm afraid I'm the same – I never really try to get a tan.
　　Rebecca: I know, I think we're both living in the wrong era in history as before the 20thcentury, the fashion was for pale skin. Only the poor were tanned as they oftenhad to work outside and the upper classes covered their bodies, and hid behindwide brimmed hats (hats which provide lots of shade) and parasols (a type ofsunshade which looks a bit like an umbrella designed to provide shade fromthe sun) or they even used cosmetics to make their skin look lighter.
　　Kate: But by the 1920s, being outdoors had become fashionable and having a tan wassuddenly in vogue or fashionable and since then many women have aspired tohave brown skin. Now we're going to hear from a lady called Ilda De Vico. Shementions a sun lounger – this is a type of long chair which people lie down onto sunbathe. Have a listen…does she like tanning or does she prefer to stay pale?
　　6 Minute English ? bbclearningenglish.com 2009Page 3 of 4Extract 1When we go on holiday, I do not move from my sun lounger and all I do is turn while myhusband bastes me so I can get the maximum amount of sun I can, to get as brown as I can, torelax and do absolutely nothing.
　　Rebecca: Wow – she sounds like a professional sun worshipper (this is when someonelikes sunbathing very much). She said her husband 'bastes' her – a verystrange choice of word as baste means to grease a piece of meat while it iscooking.
　　Kate: Hmm…..Have another listen – see if you can hear exactly what her views areon being brown. She mentions 'fake tan' – what's this?
　　Rebecca: Fake tan refers to a type of body cream which essentially dyes your skinbrown.
　　Extract 2Everyone thinks they look better brown. You see everyone out there and it's either their makeup,their foundation, the fake tan. You see the celebs on TV, they're all sprayed up. Beingtanned is popular.
　　Rebecca: She definitely thinks that people look better brown and thinks that it is verypopular at the moment. She mentioned ways of creating a false tan – 'makeup','foundation' and 'fake tan'. These are all types of creams to create a tan.
　　She also mentioned the word celeb – this is short for celebrities– famouspeople who appear in magazines and on TV. Some celebrities are verytanned indeed.
　　Kate: Well, that might be so but personally I don’t really like the fake tan look.
　　Some people just overdo it and end up looking orange!
　　6 Minute English ? bbclearningenglish.com 2009Page 4 of 4Let's have look at the vocabulary we've come across today:
　　sunbed is a machine which produces light similar to sunlight. You can lie down on it and itgives you a tan similar to one you would get if you sunbathed on a beach.
　　wide brimmed hats which are hats which provide lots of shadeparasols a type of sunshade which looks a bit like an umbrella designed to provide shadefrom the sunin vogue means to be fashionablesun lounger is a type of long chair which you lie down on to sunbathesun worshipper is when someone likes sunbathing very muchbastes means to grease a piece of meat while it is cooking.
　　fake tan refers to a type of body cream which essentially dyes your skin brown.
　　celeb or celebrities which are famous people who appear in magazines and on TVKate: And finally the answer to the question I asked you earlier. Which fashion designermade tanning popular? The correct answer was in fact Coco Channel. In 1923,after cruising from Paris to Cannes, designer Coco Chanel stepped off a yachtwith a suntan which she had apparently got by mistake. The press and fashionworld assumed she was making a fashion statement and since that day, sunbathinghas been popular.
　　Kate: That's all we have time for today. Until next time. Goodbye.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)
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