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Now listen to part of a lecture in a sociology class on this topic.
请听社会学课上关于这个话题的部分内容。
I have an example from my own life that illustrates this.
我有一个自己生活中的例子可以说明这个话题。
When I first began my university studies, I became friends with a bunch of art students.
我刚进入大学学习的时候，跟一群艺术系的学生成了朋友。
They were older and fun and very creative and I thought they were really cool.
他们比我大，很风趣也很有创意，我那时候觉得他们非常酷。
And they all liked to dress really casually, in T-shirts and jeans and sneakers.
而且他们都喜欢穿得很随意，都只穿些T恤、牛仔裤和运动鞋。
That's what they wore all the time, to class, to the library, to dinner, everywhere, T-shirts and jeans and sneakers.
他们一直都这么穿，无论是去上课，去图书馆，去吃饭还是去哪里，他们都穿着T恤、牛仔裤和运动鞋。
So that's what I started wearing, too. And I fit right in, and I felt really cool.
于是我也开始这么穿，而且发现这个风格跟我正合适，我觉得自己非常酷。
But then I graduated, moved to Chicago, and got a job.
但是后来我毕业了，搬到了芝加哥并在那儿找了一份工作。
And I started working with some really bright,
我开始和一些很聪明的年轻人一起工作，
young people who'd already been working in the company for a few years,
他们已经在公司工作了好几年了，
who were already handling major responsibilities for the company, really impressive.
也担任着一些重要的职位，非常令人钦佩。
And sometimes some of us would get together on the weekend, maybe for a concert or a baseball game or something.
有时候我们中一些人周末会聚在一起，可能看个演唱会或者棒球比赛什么的。
And at first, I just wear a T-shirt and jeans and sneakers. That was, you know, how I was used to dressing.
最开始的时候，我还是穿着T恤、牛仔裤和运动鞋。你知道的，就是我一贯的打扮。
But I soon noticed that my co-workers preferred to dress up a little bit.
但是我很快发现我的同事们更喜欢穿得正式一点。
The men would wear a nice pair of pants, uh, button-up shirt.
男士们会穿很不错的长裤，和带扣子的衬衫。
The women might wear a fashionable dress and some nice shoes.
女士们会穿时尚的连衣裙和一些很棒的鞋子。
They dressed in clothes a lot nicer than what I was used to wearing.
他们穿的衣服比我一贯穿的要好得多。
And I started thinking, you know, that looks really classy, really sharp.
然后我开始觉得，那样打扮看起来很有品位，非常精明。
And so I started to dress the same way they did, you know, nicer, a little more formal.
所以我就开始跟他们打扮得一样，穿的好一点，正式一些。
And, I don't know, somehow my T-shirts and jeans and sneakers didn't seem as cool anymore.
不知道怎么的，我的T恤、牛仔裤和运动鞋看起来再也没有那么酷了。
