最近流行低腰牛仔裤Я
Book Three Lesson Four
The Pants Worn Around the World
208 Number: Name:
Think about it!
1. Do you like wearing blue jeans? Why or why not? 2. How many pair of jeans do you have? Do you often wear them?
3. When you are buying blue jeans, what is your main consideration?
Brand? Price? Style? Comfortableness?
4. What’s your definition of fashion?
5. Do you think blue jeans are still in fashion? Why or why not?
Listening & Reading Comprehension Arrange these “events” in order of time
a. Levi Strauss first came to San Francisco.
b. He asked a tailor to make pants out of his rough canvas.
c. Blue jeans became the uniform of the working people.
d. He sold canvas for tents and wagon covers.
e. Jeans became a symbol of rebellion against authority.
f. He used “denim” to make pants.
g. Fashion discovered blue jeans.
h. Jeans became the main play-clothes of children.
i. He opened a work-clothes shop in San Francisco.
j. There are various kinds of jeans.
Your answer:
Words in Use
fashion
the way of dressing or behaving that is considered the best at a certain time.
Low-rise jeans are the latest fashion. 最近流行低腰牛仔褲。
Fashions have changed since I was a girl. 現在的時尚和我是小女孩的時候已大不相同。
I care little about fashion. 我對流行無啥關心。
We must keep up with fashion/ follow (the) fashion. 我們必須趕上,追隨時髦。 come into/ be in fashion (開始)流行
Curly hair is very much in fashion now.
go/be out of fashion 不再流行
Long skirts are out of fashion now.
-fashion comb. Form[n?adv.] (結合式)以…的方式;像
He likes to dress schoolboy-fashion
to eat American-fashion
fashionable adj. 流行的;時髦的
[unfashionable] adj.
[old-fashioned] adj.
cloth,clothes,clothing
課文中有提到cloth和clothes兩個字。cloth 是指「布料」的意思。而clothes一般常與clothing混用,clothing指衣物的總稱,是不可數的集合名詞,意思更為廣泛,包括帽子、鞋子等,與much/little連用。而clothes指衣著或衣服,不使用單數式,與many, few, a lot of, a few連用。和clothing或clothes連用的動詞較常見的有:
put on one’s clothing/clothes
take off one’s clothing/clothes
wear winter clothing/clothes
wear little clothing/have a lot of clothes
clothing和clothes前面都不能直接用數字,只能說:
two articles/pieces of clothing
two suits of clothes
下面是一些例句:
1. In summer they wear little clothing.
2. He puts on his best clothing/clothes on Sundays.
3. The store has a few articles of clothing on sale.
順便一提,與clothing有關的成語,最熟悉的是:
a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Seize the day!