Jessica在北京學漢語，她的中國朋友要是遇到了不知道用美語怎么說的詞，就會來請教她。今天要問的：修身。

Jessica: Fangfang, You look different! Did you lose weight?

FF: 才沒有呢! 是這件衣服好，穿上顯瘦，特修身!

Jessica: 修身養性?也能讓人顯瘦?

FF: 不是那個修身，是修飾身材. The clothes make me look slim。

Jessica: I see. You can say the clothes are figure flattering. "flattering" is spelled f-l-a-t-t-e-r-i-n-g。

FF: figure是身材，flatter是恭維，兩個詞放在一起，figure flattering，身材顯得更好，也就是修身!

Jessica: Right! For example, A lot of women find black to be a figure flattering color。

FF: 對! 黑色特修身。不過，要想嘗試各種風格的打扮，不能光靠衣服，還得身材好。瘦才是王道!

Jessica: So...Are you going on a diet?

FF: Go on a diet? 節食?沒錯! 雖然我已經不是頭一次減肥，但這次不同，我要來個地獄式的節食減肥!

Jessica: 地獄?Hell? Oh, You must be referring to a crash diet, where people stop eating, exercise like crazy and do extreme things to lose weight quickly。

FF: 對! 不吃，狂運動，迅速瘦身! 原來地獄式節食就是a crash diet. c-r-a-s-h, crash. 我拼得對么?

Jessica: Correct. But Fangfang, it’s a painful process, isn’t it?

FF: 可不是么! 我這幾天頭暈眼花，就是因為吃太少。Jessica, 待會兒咱們去吃烤鴨吧!

Jessica: 你不減肥啦?

FF: 就一頓嘛，放縱一下!

Jessica: Be careful! This is binge eating! Binge is spelled b-i-n-g-e. Binge eating is when you eat a lot more food in one meal than you usually do。

FF: 我明白了，binge eating就是暴飲暴食。

Jessica: 對! I hope you can get slimmer in a healthy way. But now, let’s see what you’ve learned today!

FF: 第一，修飾身材叫 figure flattering;

第二，節食叫go on a diet，地獄式節食是a crash diet;

第三，暴飲暴食是binge eating。