Learn Mandarin Chinese, how to say – My aunt is wearing a brand-new pair of blue jeans and a white T-shirt.
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我的阿姨穿着一条全新的蓝色牛仔裤和一件白色的T恤。Wǒ de āyí chuānzhe yī tiáo quánxīn de lánsè niúzǎikù hé yī jiàn báisè de T xù . Wǒ de（ 我的 possessive pronoun, my) āyí (阿姨 noun, aunt) chuān (穿 verb, wear) zhe (着 particle to show continuous action) yī (一 number, one) tiáo (条 measure word for pants) quánxīn (全新adjective phrase, brand-new) de (的 particle to connect the attributive and the noun it modifies) lánsè (蓝色 color name, blue) niúzǎikù (牛仔裤 noun, jeans) hé (和conjunction, and) yī (一 number, one) jiàn (件 measure word for clothes) báisè (白色color name, white) de (的 particle) T xù (T恤 noun, T-shirt) .
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Levi Strauss, symbol ( 象 征 [xiàngzhēng] or 标 志 [biāozhì] ) of blue jeans and an icon (图 标 ［túbiāo ］) of American culture, is not the creator ( 创 造 者 [chuàngzàozhĕ] ) or inventor (发 明 家 [fāmíngjiā] ) of America’s favorite pair of pants.
Around 1871, in Reno, Nevada, there was a tailor (裁 缝 [cáifeng] ) named Jacob Davis who made his living by making pants. One day, a local miner’s wife (妻 子 [qīzi] ) came to ask him to make some pants that could withstand severe usage. Davis thus came up with the riveted trousers (裤 子 [kùzi] ) to answer the request.
This invention (发 明 [fāmíng] ), the pants with rivet-strengthened stress points and durable (耐 用 的 ［nài yòng de ］) “duck cloth,” a type of canvas, was greatly welcomed by local (当 地 的 [dāng dì de] ) miners (矿 工 [kuàng gōng] ). Davis wanted to protect his idea, but he lacked the money to file documents. Davis turned to Levi Strauss, a German immigrant who had a branch of dry-goods store in San Francisco, and the two filed a patent (专 利 权 [zhuān lì quán] ) on a pair of pants strengthened with rivets.
There are so many kinds of jeans out there in the market today, and what is your favorite type of jeans?
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Learn to say the name of different kinds of jeans in Chinese – 不同类型的牛仔裤 (Bùtóng lèixíng de niúzǎikù)
bootcut 靴型牛仔裤 (Xuē xíng niúzǎikù)
boyfriend 男友型牛仔裤 (Nányǒu xíng niúzǎikù)
embroidered embroidered jeans – 绣花牛仔裤 (Xiùhuā niúzǎikù)
high-waisted 高腰牛仔裤 (Gāo yāo niúzǎikù)
skinny 紧身牛仔裤 (Jǐnshēn niúzǎikù)
straight leg 直腿牛仔裤 (Zhí tuǐ niúzǎikù)
wide leg 宽腿牛仔裤 (Kuān tuǐ niúzǎikù)
low rise 低腰牛仔裤 (Dī yāo niúzǎikù)
high rise 高腰牛仔裤 (Gāo yāo niúzǎikù)
capri 七分牛仔裤 （Qī fēn niúzǎikù ）
relaxed 宽松的牛仔裤 (Kuānsōng de niúzǎikù)
stretch 弹力牛仔裤 (Tánlì niúzǎikù) or 伸缩牛仔裤 （shēnsuō niúzǎikù ）
baggy jeans (袋型牛仔裤 (Dài xíng niúzǎikù))
light wash 浅色水洗牛仔裤 (jiān sè shuǐ xǐ niúzǎikù)
dark wash 深色水洗牛仔裤 (Shēn sè shuǐxǐ niúzǎikù)
No matter what type of jeans you like, as long as they are not ultimately tight, then they will be fine. Have you heard of the risk of wearing extremely skinny jeans? Or have you ever heard of some horror stories about what disaster skinny jeans brought? Such as, people fell down to the ground, but were not able to get up for the jeans were too tight? Or people experienced strong numbness in the thighs?
[audio:http://www.chinesetolearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/listen-to45.mp3|titles=listen to]A latest Wall Street Journal article points out some scary health risks of skinny jeans and calls them as “skinny jean syndrome,” ( 紧 身 牛 仔 裤 综 合 征 [jǐn shēn niúzǎikù zōnghé zhēng ]) which include lower back pain, digestive issues and blood clots. Also it mentions that friction ( 摩 擦 [mócā] ) caused by overly tight pants may lead to bladder infections, and nerve compression ( 压 缩 [yāsuō] ) causes terrible burning and pain. It also leads to thigh donuts syndrome ( 大 腿 甜 甜 圈 证 [dàtuǐ tián tián quān zhèng ]), which means tight skinny jeans will cause disfigurement （变型 or 毁容 [biàn xíng or huǐróng ]）if the wearers are so chubby. They can force fatty tissue into areas above the knees and this causes horizontal lesions to appear around the thighs, and it will end up making the thigh look like thigh donuts that are extremely ugly. So, should you wear skinny jeans? Of course you can, wear them at your own risk:) Just like when you go to the park, it always has a sign: play at your own risk 风 险 [fēngxiăn] !
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