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你觉得在买些的时候什么最重要呢？是穿的舒适还是要穿的漂亮？这两者似乎很难兼顾...那你又如何做出选择？今天的西部落带你去看看一个人对鞋子的抱怨。


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I don't like to complain all the time, but that's what I do for a living, and I'm lucky because there's so much to complain about.

I was getting dressed the other morning and I got thinking about how bad shoes are. I wish our smartest people would stop reinventing our computers every three days, and pay attention to something basic like shoes.

You see people walking along the street all the time, and you know darn well they're wearing shoes that don't fit.

No one has two feet that are exactly the same, either, but when you buy a pair of shoes, they're both the same. Seems wrong.

Who are shoe stores trying to kid, making women think this is the shape of their feet? These shoes aren't the shape of anyone's foot.

Recently, the people who make sneakers have been doing a better job than the people who make shoes. It used to be that you wore sneakers in the gym; now people wear them everywhere.

The shoe business must be good anyway though, because we all buy more shoes than we wear. We keep looking for that perfect pair. Our closets runneth over with shoes. I must have 20 pairs of shoes I don't wear, but they cost so much, I can't stand to throw them out.

Whatever made me think I'd wear these? These seemed like a good idea when I bought them, but I've worn them about three times in 10 years.

All these shoes are either funny-looking, or they don't fit. These are a size 8-1/2, but my feet are a size 9-1/2. How come I'm not as tall as I used to be, but my feet are longer?

I never understood why my shoe size is 9-1/2 and my sock size is 11, either.

You'd think short shoes would be cheaper than long ones, too -- not as much in them - but they aren't. People with short feet are subsidizing people with long feet. It seems unfair.

Someone tried it years ago, but I think eventually all shoe stores will have something you put your feet into that measures them and then instantly forms a pair of shoes that fit your feet perfectly.

Of course, there's a problem with that, too. Years ago, I went to a man in New York who made a cast of my feet and then made shoes to fit them. Murray's Space Shoes, they were called. These fit my feet, but they are so funny-looking, I don't ever wear them.

We had a summer camp on a lake when I was a kid, and of all the things I miss about not being young, I don't go barefoot in the summer anymore.
词汇讲解
Reinvent: to make changes to an idea, method, system etc in order to improve it or make it more modern 改进，改造

Pay attention to: 关心;注意
You should pay attention to your spelling.
你要注意拼写。

Fit: (衣服,鞋子等)合身;适合
Does this shirt fit?
这件衬衫合身吗?

Look for: 寻找
She is looking for her lost child.
她正在寻找失去的孩子。

How come: 怎么回事，怎么搞的，为什么，怎么会这样子
用以表示不理解情况是怎么发生的，希望得到解释
If she spent 5 years in Paris, how come her French is so bad?
既然她在巴黎待了5年，她的法语怎么还会这样糟糕？

Subsidize: 给...津贴,补助,资助
Farming is partly subsidized by the government.
农业部分受政府补贴