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Eyln: Hi! Welcome to Let’s talk. Did I trick you? Do you know who I am? I'm just Eyln. And do you know what we are talking about today? We’re talking about hair.
R: Hi! Do you know me? It’s still Rebecca. Today my hair is different, I’m a blonde, and I feel different, too. Change your hair is one way to make you feel different about everything, right?
E: In the 21century, we can be really special with our hair-glitter. Do you see it’s shining? And hair-mascara. You add a little bit to your hair, just like you add it to your eyes. You can look really fancy.
R: Hi! You know, in the West, they say the first thing a man notices about a woman is her hair. Now, do you think a man will notice me? Maybe I like a beautiful Chinese girl?
E: Oh, no. I don’t know.
R: You noticed.
E: And we don’t know what a Chinese guy noticed first in Chinese woman. So maybe you can write us some letters about that. What do you think you noticed first when you meet someone? In the West, our hair colors, we have so many hair colors.
R: And the quickest way to change your hair is to put on a hairpiece or a wig. That’s why we have brought some today. There is lots of fun, too. The vocabulary for wigs is any pieces of wig. But if it’s a piece you attached to back, it’s a fall.
E: So today we’re going to teach you some hair idioms. And one of the things you can say about hair is, if someone is bothering you, Let’s say, your parents are bothering you or your children are bothering you, you can say, “I just want to get them out of my hair, for one hour, then I can make dinner or then I can do my homework. But if you make your hair stand on the end, that means stand up, like this. What do you think that means? In the West, in English, it means you’re afraid. You can say that makes my hair stand on the end. Or you can say, “That really curled my hair.” Made your hair curly. “That really curled my hair.” That means you’re very afraid.
R: So for example, “ That was such a scary movie. It curled my hair.” Another one that I remember my parents using was, “Your kids are giving me gray hairs.”
E: To make them feel old. And if you have a child who is everyone’s favorite, everybody loves this child, he can't do anything wrong, they say he is a fair- haired boy. “Fair” means golden blond or pale blond. And even your hair is black, you might be at your home a fair- haired boy.
R: That’s right, because you’re the most beloved child. Another good idiom is to let your hair down. I think it’s true in China, but in West in history, little girls could let their hair grow, or a little boy’s. But once they were adults, they must be bond and put up tightly. Probably so they can do their work, right? So even today you might say “Oh, I work hard all week, but on the weekend, I can let my hair down. I can relax.”
E: It’s used quite often, you say, “I just want to let my hair down and relax.”
R: There was a whole musical in the 1960s in America and was called Hair. The whole point of it was a generation difference, the parents in the old fashion had short hair, and the young people all wore their hair longer. And it was how they were showing they were different. They were young generation. And that was the main point, there was difference between the young people and the old people. So you can express yourself from your hair.
E: I think so. And sometimes it’s fun to be silly. I think we all like being silly, and adding some glitter to your hair or something once in a while, I don’t know what my doggy will think when I go home, or what my husband may say when he comes home this evening. But he’ll wonder,“Oh, did you go out and had a good time at a party?”
R: And you can say, “No, we really let our hair down.We were having funny work today.”
E: So we hope you like our section on hair. Have a good time and have a good hair day.
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关于头发
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大家好。欢迎收看“你说我说”。我瞒过你的眼睛了吗？知道我是谁吗? 我就是Elyn。知道我们今天的话题是什么吗？我们要说说头发。
大家好，知道我是谁吗？我还是Rebecca。今天我的头发有些不同，成了一名blonde (金发女郎)。改变头发，让你对周围的一切都有新感觉。
在二十一世纪，我们可以使头发变得不同。你可以利用hair-glitter（亮发剂），还有hair-mascara（染发油），涂一些在头发上，就象我们涂在眉毛上一样，你看起来会很时髦。
你知道，在西方国家，有人说男人首先注意到的是女人的头发。现在，你认为男人会不会注意我？我看起来像不像美丽的中国女孩。
我不知道。
但你注意到了。
我不知道中国男人是否也会首先注意到头发。也许你可以写信告诉我。当你遇到一个人时，你会首先注意到他（她）哪呢？在西方国家，我们最先注意到的是头发，因为我们的头发有这么多颜色。
改变头发最快的办法是戴假发。所以我们今天带来了几顶假发。这也非常有意思。假发一般都是“wig”，但是戴在脑后的叫作“fall”。
所以今天我们要教给大家一些关于头发的成语。当你的父母或孩子们让你感到心烦的时候，你可以说：“I just want to get them out of my hair for one hour.这样我就可以做晚饭或者做功课。”但是如果你Make your hair stand on the end，让头发站起来，你想它是什么意思呢？在英语中这是害怕的意思。That made my hair stand on the end.或者说，That really curled my hair，使你的头发卷起来了。它们的意思是你感到很害怕。
例如你可以说：“That was such a scary movie.It curled my hair.”我记得我的父母还说过：“ Your kids are giving me gray hairs.”意思是让他们操心变老。
如果你有一个人见人爱的孩子，一个几乎完美的孩子，一个不会犯错的孩子，他就是一个 fair-haired boy。fair 的意思是金黄或浅黄色。既使你的头发是黑色的，你在家里也很可能是一个fair-haired boy。
因为你是家中最受宠的孩子。另一个好的成语是 let your hair down，放松休息。我想在中国也有类似的说法。在西方国家的历史上，男孩子或女孩子是要蓄发的。但一到成年，他们将得把头发束起来或高高地梳紧，也许这样是为了更方便干活。所以直到今天你还可以说：“Oh, I work hard all week.But on the weekend I can let my hair down.I can relax.”
这种说法很常用。你可以说：“I just want to let my hair down and relax.”
二十世纪六十年代美国曾经有一部音乐电影《Hair》。它的主题就是两代人的不同。上一代留短发，下一代蓄长发。两辈人以此来显示他们的不同。所以你可以用头发来表现自我。
我同意。有时疯一点也很有好玩。我想我们都喜欢疯一下，偶尔在头发上涂一些闪光粉。我不知道我回家时我的小狗会怎样想，我丈夫今天晚上回家时会怎么说。但是他可能想：“你去参加聚会了吗？”
你就可以说：“We really let our hair down.我们今天干了些有趣的事。”
希望你们喜欢今天关于hair的节目。开开心心，轻轻松松。
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