A：Did you see the fashion awards last night?

你看了昨晚的时装颁奖晚会没有?

B：I sat through about half of it but they lost me after that.

我看了大约一半就走了。

A：Not interested?

不感兴趣?

B：Not really, to be honest. Some of what they call fashion looks terrible to me.

老实说，不是很感兴趣。他们所谓的一些时装在我看来太差劲了。

A：But they are showing what will be all the rage next year.

但他们展出的是一些明年要流行的时装。

B：All the rage with whom? I never see anyone wearing these designs on the street.

流行个鬼!我从来就没有看到街上有谁会穿这个。

A：Did you know that fashion is cyclical?

你知道流行的潮流是循环往复的吗?

B：What, it keeps coming back?

什么?还可以再流行以前的?

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.

没错!喇叭裤就曾经流行了阵子，随后过时了。现在，我们发现它又开始流 行起来了。

B：Flares?

喇叭裤?

A：They're also known as bell-bottoms. They are a type of trousers.

他们是种钟形裤管的裤子。

B：It's too complicated.I'll just stick to the plain clothes.

太复杂了。我还是简简单单的算了。

A：That's fine, but then you'll always look plain.

那也可以，但你看起来可就显得老土了。