VOA常速英语2019--寄售让旧衣焕发新生命

I feel like there’s a season in everyone’s life for consignment².

我觉得每个人的生活中都有寄售期。

Yay, our first customers! Yay!

是的，我们的第一批客户!耶!

It’s the last hurrah³ for winter right now.All of the items that didn’t sell over the winter are now fair game.

这是冬天最后的狂欢了。所有在冬天卖不出去的东西现在都可以买了。

They pay one registration⁴ fee price,no sales tax,

他们只需支付一笔注册费，无需缴纳销售税，

and are able to choose anything off the rack that they can fit on their bodies.

而且可以选择任何适合自己身材的现成衣服。

That’s called the all-you-can-wear-buffet.

这就是所谓的“你能穿多少就穿多少”的自助餐。

New consigners come about for a number of reasons and it’s usually because of a change in their life.

新的委托人的出现有很多原因，通常是因为他们生活的改变。

either maybe their size changed and their clothes don’t fit anymore,

也许他们的尺寸变了，衣服也不合身了，

or they’ve had a change in their career or a lifestyle

或者他们的职业或生活方式发生了变化

and they need other kinds of clothes, and what they have they don’t need anymore.

他们需要其他类型的衣服，而他们所拥有的，他们不再需要了。

So, it’s a good way to turn around that money into spare cash.

所以，这是一个很好的办法，把这些钱变成备用现金。

Here’s a coupon⁵ good for another thirty days.

这是一张30天的优惠券。

Awesome⁶, thank you.

太棒了,谢谢你。

It just means that you enter into an agreement to sell your things

它只是意味着你达成了一个协议来出售你的东西

and share the profit of what they sell for with the person who’s selling them.

并与卖家分享利润。

We have a whole cross-section of America here.

我们这里有整个美国的横截面。

All ethnicities, socio-economic status, genders⁷, we have everyone.

所有种族，社会经济地位，性别，我们都有。

Thank you so much.

非常感谢。

You need some help in what to do?

你需要帮忙做什么?

We don’t want this stuff ending up in the landfill.

我们不希望这些东西最后被扔进垃圾填埋场。

At some point there will be other uses for this fabric⁸,

在将来的某个时候，这种布料还会有其他用途，

especially the nicer fabrics⁹, the cotton’s, and the linens¹⁰, and the silks,

尤其是那些漂亮的织物、棉的、亚麻的、丝绸的，

which you don’t find as much in retail¹¹ these days.

这在如今的零售业中已经不常见了。

I think they will always have some value.

我认为它们总是有价值的。

People these days don’t like to mend things.

现在的人不喜欢修补东西。

They don’t like to sew buttons on.

他们不喜欢缝纽扣。

So, they consign¹ it because they don’t want to fix it,don’t have the time or don’t know how.

所以，他们寄售是因为他们不想修复它，没有时间或者不知道如何修复。

So every now and then,I take something home and sew a button on or stitch up a seam on my sewing machine.

所以时不时地，我把一些东西带回家，缝上一颗扣子，或者在缝纫机上缝一条缝。

And that’s all it takes to make it look nice as new.

这让它看起来像新的。

OK, I got to go try these on.

好吧，我得去试穿一下。

When they no longer have a life here,is anyone going to find it useful?

当他们在这里不再有作用时，有人会觉得它有用吗?

I mean if nobody wants to buy it,is somebody gonna want to wear it?

我是说，如果没人想买，会有人想穿吗?

We donate it to a lot of local clothing ministries,and hopefully they’re getting use out of those things.

我们把它捐给了很多当地的服装部，希望他们能从中受益。

From there, they get sold for pennies on the pound.

从那里，他们以每磅几便士的价格出售。

Where they go from there, I’m not sure.

我不确定他们会去哪里。

It’s not working.

这不是工作。

All set?

都安排好了？

When we have beautiful fabrics,it’s hard for me to discard them.

当我们有漂亮的面料时，我很难丢弃它们。

I want to do something novel with them.

我想和他们做一些新奇的事情。

And I really see a need for local industry,for people to come together for a good cause,

我真的看到了地方工业的需要，人们为了一个好的事业走到一起，

and cut these fabrics into strips and weave them into something new.

把这些织物剪成条状，然后织成新的东西。

If it can be created into something useful,people will buy it.

如果它能被创造成有用的东西，人们就会购买它。

It’s something they need and with that money, you know,

这是他们需要的东西，而且你知道，有了那笔钱，

you could fund a halfway¹² house or something useful.

你可以负担起折中的事物，或其他有用的东西。

It’s community working together,

这是社区的共同努力，

taking items that maybe have lost their purpose in life just like many drug addicts¹³,

拿走那些可能已经像吸毒者一样失去生活意义的东西，

and having them recreated into something new.

把它们重新创造成新的东西。

It’s almost like breathing new life into something that needed some hope.

这就像给需要一些希望的东西注入新的生命。

1 consign   

vt.寄售（货品），托运，交托，委托

参考例句：

• We cannot agree to consign the goods.我们不同意寄售此货。
• We will consign the goods to him by express.我们将以快递把货物寄给他。

2 consignment   

n.寄售；发货；委托；交运货物

参考例句：

• This last consignment of hosiery is quite up to standard.这批新到的针织品完全符合规格。
• We have to ask you to dispatch the consignment immediately.我们得要求你立即发送该批货物。

3 hurrah   

int.好哇，万岁，乌拉

参考例句：

• We hurrah when we see the soldiers go by.我们看到士兵经过时向他们欢呼。
• The assistants raised a formidable hurrah.助手们发出了一片震天的欢呼声。

4 registration   

n.登记，注册，挂号

参考例句：

• Marriage without registration is not recognized by law.法律不承认未登记的婚姻。
• What's your registration number?你挂的是几号？

5 coupon   

n.息票，配给票，附单

参考例句：

• The coupon can be used once only.此优惠券只限使用一次。
• I have a coupon for ten pence off a packet of soap.我有一张优惠券买一盒肥皂可以便宜十便士。

6 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

7 genders   

n.性某些语言的（阳性、阴性和中性，不同的性有不同的词尾等）( gender的名词复数 )；性别；某些语言的（名词、代词和形容词）性的区分

参考例句：

• There are three genders in German: masculine, feminine and neuter. 德语中有叁性：阳性、阴性和中性。 来自辞典例句
• Japan was fourth among the genders of foreign students. 日本在二十个留美学生输送地中列第四位。 来自互联网

8 fabric   

n.织物，织品，布；构造，结构，组织

参考例句：

• The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
• I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。

9 fabrics   

织物( fabric的名词复数 )； 布； 构造； （建筑物的）结构（如墙、地面、屋顶）：质地

参考例句：

• cotton fabrics and synthetics 棉织物与合成织物
• The fabrics are merchandised through a network of dealers. 通过经销网点销售纺织品。

10 linens   

n.亚麻布( linen的名词复数 )；家庭日用织品

参考例句：

• All linens and towels are provided. 提供全套日用织品和毛巾。 来自辞典例句
• Linen, Table Linens, Chair Covers, Bed and Bath Linens. Linen. 采购产品亚麻布，亚麻布，椅子套子，床和沭浴亚麻布。 来自互联网

11 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

12 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

13 addicts   

有…瘾的人( addict的名词复数 )； 入迷的人

参考例句：

• a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts 帮助吸毒者恢复正常生活的机构
• There is counseling to help Internet addicts?even online. 有咨询机构帮助网络沉迷者。 来自超越目标英语 第3册