实战口语情景对话 第813期:Getting Groomed 打扮

Jess: OK, so Tom, I've told you all about my beauty regime. You look very well groomed. Could you tell me what do you do to keep yourself looking good?
杰西：汤姆，我之前跟你说了我的美容程序。你看起来很整洁。你能跟我说说你如何让自己看起来不错吗？

Tom: Well, thank you Jess. I mean this look is the product of many stages of evolution. When I was a teenager, I had long hair pulled back in a pony-tail, but at that time I wasn't growing a beard yet so I did get mistaken for a girl, so since then I've had short hair. There have been some periods when I've been traveling and when I'm traveling I don't like to bother too much about grooming, and my beard has started to grow, and it was a couple of years back that I went back to my job after traveling. I didn't have time to shave, and my colleagues and students saw me with a full beard, and to be honest they weren't as rude as I thought there were going to be, and I thought well maybe this looks good, so I thought I'd keep that. The beard lasted perhaps a year and then it began disappearing and appearing according to my whim and now I've settled on a goatee which is where I shave my cheeks and underneath my chin, but I keep the mustache and and beard around my mouth. I've never grown sideburns because I'm a little embarrassed to say, I've never managed to get the connection between my beard and my hair. There's a little gap just by my ears which never has quite grown hair, so that's where we got to where we are today.
汤姆：谢谢你，杰西。我现在的样子经历了不同的阶段。我在青少年时期留长发，梳个马尾，当时我还没有长胡子，所以我经常被误认为是女孩，从那以后我就开始留短发了。有一段时期我四处旅行时，不太在意打扮，那时我开始长胡子，我旅行了几年后回来工作。当时我没时间剃胡子，我的同事和学生看到的是我满脸胡子的样子，说实话，他们并没有像我想的那样无礼，所以我认为这个造型可能还不错，我就一直维持这个造型。我的胡子造型大概持续了一年的时间，之后看我的心情，我可能会把胡子剪掉，也可能会留胡子，现在我决定留山羊胡，把脸上和下巴的胡子剃掉，保留嘴部周围的胡子。我从来没留过鬓角，这说起来有点尴尬，因为我从来没能让我的胡子和头发连起来。我的耳朵周围会有缝隙，那里从来没长过毛发，这就是我的样子的变化过程。

Jess: And have you ever removed hair from, waxed or shaved or any other part method from any other part of your body?
杰西：你有没有刮过身体其他部分的毛发？

Tom: Do you mean my legs? No, I have never shaved my legs. I'm not a very hairy guy, but I just don't feel comfortable with men shaving their legs. A friend at university was a cyclist and he always shaved his legs and I thought it was strange because ... I mean, seriously, is wind resistance that important that you need to shave your legs to get the extra bit of speed on a bicycle, but he explained to me, "No", it's to do with evening after cycling and you have to get a sports massage and a massage is much easier if you don't have hair on your legs. I always thought it was about wind resistance, but I was completely wrong.
汤姆：你是指腿吗？没有，我从来没有刮过腿毛。我的体毛不是那么多，而且我对男性刮腿毛感到很不自在。我大学时有个朋友是自行车选手，他经常刮腿毛，我认为那很奇怪，说正经的，我以为是因为风的阻力，他要刮掉腿毛以便在骑行时获得额外的速度，可是他给我的解释是，“不是，这是为了骑行后晚上的活动，晚上我要进行运动按摩，腿毛不多的话，按摩更容易些。”我一直以为是因为风的阻力的原因，原来我完全弄错了。

Jess: So, it sounds like in comparison to mine your beauty regime is very simple.
杰西：和我的美容程序比起来，你的简直太简单了。