【英语趣味课堂】婚纱-The Wedding Dress

Wendi: So you were saying that your sister looked really beautiful?

 

James: Yeah.

 

Wendi: Can you tell me a little about what she was wearing?

 

James: Yeah, she was wearing my mother's original wedding dress that my mum made in like the 1960's so it was a real, English 60's-style lace and silk dress, a long train that went about two meters back. She had all her hair pinned up. She spent about an hour at the hair dressers before, a couple of hours before the wedding, and then an hour doing the make-up and then the last thing to go on was the wedding dress and then she came down the stairs and she just looked absolutely stunning¹.

 

Wendi: Wow!

 

James: She had flowers sort of sewn into her hair.

 

Pause 1

 

James: And obviously my brother-in-law, the husband, he was another. At his friend's house, spent the morning getting ready in his tuxedo² and his suit, me as well, but then I had gone back to see her and she wore little silk slippers³ but because it was raining she had to wear her trainers to walk from the car to the church and then get changed back into her silk slippers to walk down the aisle⁴. Yeah, and then she had her huge bouquet⁵ of flowers, which generally were just white and pale colors to go with the dress.

 

Pause 2

 

Wendi: That's really amazing that your sister wore mom's wedding gown that your mother made. That is so cool.

 

James: And it was a beautiful, beautiful dress.

 

Wendi: It must have been so tiny though cause women were so much more slender it seems like back then.

 

James: My sister is very little

 

Wendi: Right.

 

James: She's only five-foot-two. So it fitted well. You wouldn't have know it was made for someone else. I'm not sure if they adjusted it but I think it just fitted. And it was, it was a really beautiful dress. My mum, that Sixty-style anyway is very much my sister's style and the style that was in England at the time.

 

Wendi: Right.

 

James: So it worked. It really worked well.

 

Pause 3

 

Wendi: Of all the wedding's you've been to, do you think there is a pretty consistent kind of style of what you wear as a guy or as a woman?

 

James: Yes. Definitely.

 

Wendi: What would you describe it as being?

 

James: White. Well, for the bridegroom or?

 

Wendi: For the people coming to the wedding.

 

James: Yes, they can't wear, women cannot wear a similar color to the bride so if the bride is in white, no white. I noticed, in Japan, they wear black. In England you wouldn't wear black to a wedding, because it's associated with funerals.

 

Wendi: Right.

 

James: And generally, with women and weddings, the women try to get the nicest dress possible or a nice little suit, like skirt and blouse and top. Men, it's just a suit and generally a bright tie or a bright shirt, not too dark, but black or blue pin-stripped suit but as long as it's a suit it's fine.

 

Wendi: Right

 

James: Right, generally colorful ties, cause again you don't want to look to somber 

1 stunning   

adj.极好的；使人晕倒的

参考例句：

• His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
• The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。

2 tuxedo   

n.礼服，无尾礼服

参考例句：

• Well,you have your own tuxedo.噢，你有自己的燕尾服。
• Have I told you how amazing you look in this tuxedo?我告诉过你穿这件燕尾服看起来很棒吗？

3 slippers   

n. 拖鞋

参考例句：

• a pair of slippers 一双拖鞋
• He kicked his slippers off and dropped on to the bed. 他踢掉了拖鞋，倒在床上。

4 aisle   

n.（教堂、教室、戏院等里的）过道，通道

参考例句：

• The aisle was crammed with people.过道上挤满了人。
• The girl ushered me along the aisle to my seat.引座小姐带领我沿着通道到我的座位上去。

5 bouquet   

n.花束，酒香

参考例句：

• This wine has a rich bouquet.这种葡萄酒有浓郁的香气。
• Her wedding bouquet consisted of roses and ivy.她的婚礼花篮包括玫瑰和长春藤。