新标准大学英语四UNIT3题库.ppt

power dressing Power dressing is a stylish and perhaps expensive way of dressing (usually for business, the professions or politics) which is intended to give the impression that the person wearing the clothes is assertive and competent, through the use of structured shapes, shoulder pads, smart fabrics, high heels and clean-cut styling in the form of work uniform. Whether wearing particular styles of clothing empowers the wearer or whether newly-empowered people simply wear clothes that reflect their achievements is an open question. 权威装 Language Points 翻译： heavy metal music Heavy metal music is a kind of rock music that developed in the UK and the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s, characterized by loudness, speed, distorted amplified sounds and extended guitar solos. 重金属音乐 Language Points 翻译： ... but the predominant colours became olive green and oatmeal. Predominant colours refer to the most common colours or those which seem more important or powerful. ……但是流行色变成了橄榄绿和米灰色。 Language Points 翻译： ... which were described by one commentator as “the prim and proper look is in …” A fashion is in when it is a new or current style, or out when it is out-of-date. ……正如一位评论家所说的，“循规蹈矩、一本正经的 式样开始流行了……” Language Points 翻译： the stock market indexes The stock market indexes show the performance of the stock market, typically reflecting the rise and fall of the shares of large companies, e.g. the FTSE (also “footsie”) is an index of the top 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Nikkei 225 is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange. 股票指数 Language Points 翻译： During the whole period, fashion styles have ranged widely, and have usually been sparked off by a desire to identify people as belonging to a particular sub-culture. During the whole period, there has been a wide range of different fashion styles, which have been usually started by people’s w