Tanning

BBC Learning English6 Minute EnglishTanningNB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript6 Minute English ? bbclearningenglish.com 2009Page 1 of 4Kate: Hello, I’m Kate Colin and this is 6 minute English and today I'm joined byRebecca Byrne. Hi Rebecca.
　　Rebecca: Hi Kate.
　　Kate: Well, I'm happy to say that summer is finally here and the sun is shining(although in the UK we can never be sure for how long ….). But, for themoment anyway, everyone seems to be sunning themselves outside in parksand gardens while they try to build up their tans.
　　Rebecca: Yes, the practice of 'tanning' or making your skin go brown is very popularwith some people here in the UK. It's probably because the weather is not sogood for most of the year and people associate being tanned with feeling andlooking healthy.
　　Kate: Tanning is so popular that often you can see very dark, tanned people in themiddle of winter which is always rather surprising…Rebecca: Well yes, but I'm sorry to tell you in most cases it's unlikely that their tan willbe real. Most of the time, it's fake and comes from a special cream or fromgoing on a sunbed. A sunbed is a machine which produces light similar tosunlight. You can lie down on it and it gives you a tan similar to one youwould get if you sunbathed² on a beach. So you can see why sunbeds are theypopular in colder countries!
　　6 Minute English ? bbclearningenglish.com 2009Page 2 of 4Kate: But being tanned or brown hasn't always been desirable in our society. Here'smy question for this week. Which designer first made it fashionable to havetanned skin?
　　a) Yves Saint Laurentb) Coco Channelc) Gianni VersaceRebecca: answersKate: We'll find out the correct answer at the end of the programme. Having a tan isregarded differently all over the world. In some countries it's seen as attractiveand in other parts of the world, people want to be as pale as possible.
　　What about you Rebecca, are you trying to get a tan this summer?
　　Rebecca: answersKate: I'm afraid I'm the same – I never really try to get a tan.
　　Rebecca: I know, I think we're both living in the wrong era in history as before the 20thcentury, the fashion was for pale skin. Only the poor were tanned as they oftenhad to work outside and the upper classes covered their bodies, and hid behindwide brimmed hats (hats which provide lots of shade) and parasols (a type ofsunshade which looks a bit like an umbrella designed to provide shade fromthe sun) or they even used cosmetics³ to make their skin look lighter⁴.
　　Kate: But by the 1920s, being outdoors had become fashionable and having a tan wassuddenly in vogue⁵ or fashionable and since then many women have aspired⁶ tohave brown skin. Now we're going to hear from a lady called Ilda De Vico. Shementions a sun lounger – this is a type of long chair which people lie down onto sunbathe¹. Have a listen…does she like tanning or does she prefer to stay pale?
　　6 Minute English ? bbclearningenglish.com 2009Page 3 of 4Extract 1When we go on holiday, I do not move from my sun lounger and all I do is turn while myhusband bastes⁸ me so I can get the maximum amount of sun I can, to get as brown as I can, torelax and do absolutely nothing.
　　Rebecca: Wow – she sounds like a professional sun worshipper (this is when someonelikes sunbathing⁹ very much). She said her husband 'bastes' her – a verystrange choice of word as baste⁷ means to grease a piece of meat while it iscooking.
　　Kate: Hmm…..Have another listen – see if you can hear exactly what her views areon being brown. She mentions 'fake tan' – what's this?
　　Rebecca: Fake tan refers to a type of body cream which essentially¹⁰ dyes your skinbrown.
　　Extract 2Everyone thinks they look better brown. You see everyone out there and it's either their makeup,their foundation, the fake tan. You see the celebs on TV, they're all sprayed up. Beingtanned is popular.
　　Rebecca: She definitely thinks that people look better brown and thinks that it is verypopular at the moment. She mentioned ways of creating a false tan – 'makeup','foundation' and 'fake tan'. These are all types of creams to create a tan.
　　She also mentioned the word celeb – this is short for celebrities¹¹– famouspeople who appear in magazines and on TV. Some celebrities are verytanned indeed.
　　Kate: Well, that might be so but personally I don’t really like the fake tan look.
　　Some people just overdo¹² it and end up looking orange!
　　6 Minute English ? bbclearningenglish.com 2009Page 4 of 4Let's have look at the vocabulary we've come across today:
　　sunbed is a machine which produces light similar to sunlight. You can lie down on it and itgives you a tan similar to one you would get if you sunbathed on a beach.
　　wide brimmed hats which are hats which provide lots of shadeparasols a type of sunshade which looks a bit like an umbrella designed to provide shadefrom the sunin vogue means to be fashionablesun lounger is a type of long chair which you lie down on to sunbathesun worshipper is when someone likes sunbathing very muchbastes means to grease a piece of meat while it is cooking.
　　fake tan refers to a type of body cream which essentially dyes your skin brown.
　　celeb or celebrities which are famous people who appear in magazines and on TVKate: And finally the answer to the question I asked you earlier. Which fashion designermade tanning popular? The correct answer was in fact Coco Channel. In 1923,after cruising from Paris to Cannes, designer Coco Chanel stepped off a yachtwith a suntan which she had apparently¹³ got by mistake. The press and fashionworld assumed she was making a fashion statement and since that day, sunbathinghas been popular.
　　Kate: That's all we have time for today. Until next time. Goodbye.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 sunbathe   

n.日光浴

参考例句：

• She liked to sunbathe in the seclusion of her own garden.她喜欢在自己僻静的花园里晒日光浴。
• People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。

2 sunbathed   

日光浴( sunbathe的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Q: Have you ever sunbathed on a nude beach? 你在裸体海滩浴场进行过日光浴么？
• Sometimes we went to the beach and at other times we sunbathed on the patio. 我们有时去海滩， 有时在院子里做日光浴。

3 cosmetics   

n.化妆品

参考例句：

• We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
• Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。

4 lighter   

n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级

参考例句：

• The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
• The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。

5 Vogue   

n.时髦，时尚；adj.流行的

参考例句：

• Flowery carpets became the vogue.花卉地毯变成了时髦货。
• Short hair came back into vogue about ten years ago.大约十年前短发又开始流行起来了。

6 aspired   

v.渴望，追求( aspire的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She aspired to a scientific career. 她有志于科学事业。
• Britain,France,the United States and Japan all aspired to hegemony after the end of World War I. 第一次世界大战后，英、法、美、日都想争夺霸权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 baste   

v.殴打，公开责骂

参考例句：

• The paper baste the candidate for irresponsible statement.该报公开指责候选人作不负责任的声明。
• If he's rude to me again,I'll baste his coat.如果他再对我无礼的话，我就要揍他了。

8 bastes   

v.打( baste的第三人称单数 )；粗缝；痛斥；（烤肉等时）往上抹[浇]油

参考例句：

• He bastes juices to keep it moist during cooking. 他倒了些汁液以防烤干。 来自互联网

9 sunbathing   

n.日光浴

参考例句：

• tourists sunbathing on the beach 在海滩上沐浴着阳光的游客
• We've been sunbathing on the beach. 我们一直在海滩上晒日光浴。

10 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

11 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

12 overdo   

vt.把...做得过头，演得过火

参考例句：

• Do not overdo your privilege of reproving me.不要过分使用责备我的特权。
• The taxi drivers' association is urging its members,who can work as many hours as they want,not to overdo it.出租车司机协会劝告那些工作时长不受限制的会员不要疲劳驾驶。

13 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。