第66讲补全短文：Style，Not Fashion（一） 职称英语综合B精讲课件幻灯片课件.ppt

　Style, Not Fashion Style goes way beyond fashion: It is the distinctive way we put ourselves together. It is a unique blend of spirit and substance — personal identity imposed oil and created through the world of things. (1) It is what people really want when they aspire to be fashionable. (if they arent just adorning themselves in status symbols). Through clothes, we reinvent ourselves every time we get dressed. Our wardrobe is our visual vocabulary. Style is our distinctive pattern of speech, our individual poetry. go way beyond 不止于 blend 混合 aspire 渴望adorn 装饰；使生色 visual vocabulary 品牌视觉形象 ; Fashion is the least of it. Style is, for starters, one part identity: self-awareness and self-knowledge._____ (2) And style requires security—feeling at home in your body, physically and mentally. Of course, like all knowledge, self-knowledge must be updated as you grow and evolve; style takes ongoing self-assessment. for starters 首先 feel at home 感觉自在 evolve 发展，进展 ;　Style is also one part personality: spirit, verve, attitude, wit, inventiveness. It demands the desire and confidence to express whatever mood one wishes. Such variability is not only necessary but a reflection of a persons unique complexity as a human being. (3) In order to work, style must reflect the real self, the character and personality of the individual; anything less appears to be a costume? verve 热情；神韵 wit 智慧；才智；智力 inventiveness 创造性；发明的才能 variability 可变性 individual n. 个人，个体 ; Lastly, style is one part fashion. Its possible to have lots of clothes and not an ounce of style. But it’s also possible to have very few clothes and lots of style. Yes, fashion is the means through which we express style, but it takes fewer clothes to be stylish than you might imagine. an ounce of style: 一丁点的风格 stylish 现代风格的 ; Whatever else it is, style is optimism made visible. Style presumes that you are a person of interest: that the world is a place of interest tha