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第1段
1 .<-NARRATOR:-> Now listen to part of a lecture in a sociology class on this topic.
请听社会学课上关于这个话题的部分内容。
第2段
1 .<-MALE PROFESSOR:-> I have an example from my own life that illustrates this.
我有一个自己生活中的例子可以说明这个话题。
2 .When I first began my university studies, I became friends with a bunch of art students.
我刚进入大学学习的时候，跟一群艺术系的学生成了朋友。
3 .They were older and fun and very creative,
他们比我大，很风趣也很有创意，
4 .and I thought they were really cool.
我那时候觉得他们非常酷。
5 .And they all liked to dress really casually, in T-shirts and jeans and sneakers.
而且他们都喜欢穿得很随意，都只穿些T恤、牛仔裤和运动鞋。
6 .That's what they wore all the time¡ª
他们一直都这么穿，
7 .to class, to the library, to dinner, everywhere.
无论是去上课，去图书馆，去吃饭还是去哪里，
8 .T-shirts and jeans and sneakers.
他们都穿着T恤、牛仔裤和运动鞋。
9 .So that's what I started wearing, too.
于是我也开始这么穿，
10 .And I fit right in, and I felt really cool.
而且发现这个风格跟我正合适，我觉得自己非常酷。
第3段
1 .But then I graduated, moved to Chicago, and got a job.
但是后来我毕业了，搬到了芝加哥并在那儿找了一份工作。
2 .And I started working with some really bright young people
我开始和一些很聪明的年轻人一起工作，
3 .who'd already been working at the company for a few years,
他们已经在公司工作了好几年了，
4 .who were already handling major responsibilities for the company.
也担任着一些重要的职位，
5 .Really impressive....
非常令人钦佩。
6 .And sometimes some of us would get together on the weekends¡ª
有时候我们中一些人周末会聚在一起，
7 .maybe for a concert, or a baseball game, or something.
可能看个演唱会或者棒球比赛什么的。
8 .And at first,
最开始的时候，
9 .I'd just wear a T-shirt and jeans and sneakers¡ªthat was, you know, how I was used to dressing....
我还是穿着T恤、牛仔裤和运动鞋。你知道的，就是我一贯的打扮。
10 .But I soon noticed that my coworkers preferred to dress up a little bit¡ª
但是我很快发现我的同事们更喜欢穿得正式一点。
11 .the men would wear a nice pair of pants, a button-up shirt;
男士们会穿很不错的长裤，和带扣子的衬衫。
12 .the women might wear a fashionable dress and some nice shoes"
女士们会穿时尚的连衣裙和一些很棒的鞋子。
13 .they dressed in clothes a lot nicer than what I was used to wearing.
他们穿的衣服比我一贯穿的要好得多。
14 .And I started thinking,
然后我开始觉得，
15 ."You know, that looks really classy, really sharp." ...
那样打扮看起来很有品位，非常精明。
16 .And so I started to dress the same way they did¡ª
所以我就开始跟他们打扮得一样，
17 .you know, nicer,
穿的好一点，
18 .a little more formal. ...
正式一些。
19 .And I don't know,
不知道怎么的，
20 .somehow my T-shirt and jeans and sneakers didn't seem as cool to me anymore.
我的T恤、牛仔裤和运动鞋看起来再也没有那么酷了。