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Crystal Renn

Renn started her modeling career in high fashion at the age of 14 after being told to lose almost a third of her total body weight. This weight loss eventually triggered a health crisis, causing her to reassess her diet and exercise habits. After gaining 70 pounds (32 kg) and re-emerging as a U.S. size 12, she was re-marketed by her agents as a plus-size model, and now enjoys a highly successful career.

at the age of ...
解釋: 在...歲的時候
要表示我在十歲的時候...，可以用 I ... at the age of ten.， 也可以用 I ... while i was 10

a third of ...
解釋: 三分之一的...
如果是二分之一呢？通常是用 a half 和 one half，不可以像三分之一用a second 和 one second，因為second也有秒的意思，a second就變成一秒了。至於三分之二則是two third，總之妳只要記得，表達分數的時候分子用數字分母用序數，如五分之三就是three fifths。

reassess /ˈriə'sɛs/
解釋: to think again about sth to decide if you need to change your opinion of it 重新考慮；再次評價
1. you have to reassess the definition of friendship

eventually
adv. 最後，終於
1. He fell ill and eventually died. 他得了病,最後去世了。

trigger /ˈtrɪɡə(r)/
解釋:  to make sth happen suddenly ，trigger原指槍枝的板機，扣板機 叫作 pull the trigger。所以引申成為觸發、引起的意思。
1. The odour of food may be a trigger for man's appetite. 食物的香味能引起人的食欲。

diet /ˈdaɪət/
n. the food that you eat and drink regularly 日常飲食
n. a limited variety or amount of food that you eat for medical reasons or because you want to lose weight 節食
1. diet drinks(= with fewer calories than normal) 低熱量飲料
2. I decided to go on a diet(= to lose weight)before my holiday. 我決定在休假前開始節食

exercise habits
運動的習慣

gain
v. 增加，增進，增長
1. gain some wisdom 增加一點智慧

plus-size
大尺碼，大尺寸

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笨蛋的用法

比較溫和的：

fool 愚笨的人，傻瓜
1. you are a fool
2. a silly fool
3. little fool - fool前面加了一個little就比較親暱一點，哈，有點像小笨蛋。
4. you little fool
5. stupid little fool
6. poor little fool
很多種組合的，哈。

stupid 傻子，笨蛋。

比較糟糕的，拿來罵人的：
idiot 白癡
moron 蠢貨
retarded 智缺，弱智
dumb 愚蠢的
dumb ass
dull 笨呆傻人
jerk 垃圾人，廢物人，犯賤人
crap 廢物

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既然提到了fool，就找幾首有關fool的情歌吧。

1.
Billie Holiday -"I'm a Fool to Want You"



好深情歌詞，我好喜歡這首歌
I'm a fool to want you
To want a love that can't be true
A love that's there for others too
I'm a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
To share a kiss that Devil has known
Time and time again I said I'd leave you
Time and time again I went away
But then would come the time when I would need you
And once again these words I had to say
Take me back, I love you
...I need you
I know it's wrong, it must be wrong


But right or wrong I can't get along


Without you

2.
Fefe Dobson - Kiss me Fool
 
 
 
Tell me who should I be to make you love me?


Tell me what does it mean to be alone?
Can’t you see me standing, staring, out from a distance,
Hear my cry if you’d only listen
Out of focus into me and you


Kiss me fool if you care
If your words have better meaning
Playing it cool is so unfair
Why this veil of secrecy?
God, forbid, friends found out what we did
Why can’t someone like you be with someone like me...?


Tell me who should I be to make you love me?
Tell me what does it mean to be alone?
Can’t you see me standing staring out from a distance,
Hear my cry if you’d only listen
Out of focus into Me and You.


Touch me fool if you’re allowed
I’ll be dancing in the corner
It’s so cruel to play it proud
Take your hands and cover me
I’m, aware that all in love is fair
But that’s no reason to make me feel this way....


Tell me who should I be to make you love me?
Tell me what does it mean to be alone?
Can’t you see me standing, staring, out from a distance,
Hear my cry if you’d only listen
Out of focus into me and you


And it hurts me so bad to deny it ooohhooohh
These feelings are out of control
Do you know what its like to want something so bad?
And than, having to let it go
And it hurts me to know that this time in our lives
So soon will be in the past (hoo hooo hooo)


And this game of pretending and playing it cool
Never knowing, never knowing,
Never knowing what we should have had...!
Tell me who should I be to make you love me?
Tell me what does it mean to be alone?


You’ve got me wondering if I’m
Good enough?
Pretty enough?
Giving enough?
Special enough?
Tell me who should I be to make you love me?


Who should I be?
Who should I be?
whoa
To make you love me.(X4)