but also I think they're excused to dress up in fancy clothes

但是，我觉得他们是要借此机会盛装打扮一下，

英国皇家赛马会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You will find that, even if you succeed in discounting the attitudes of others to you and your life, you must wrestle with yourself most of all, fight with yourself, for there will surge up in you a strong desire to alter facts, to dress up your feelings.

你会发现，即使你可以忽略,其他人对你及你的生活的态度，你还得和自己战斗，几乎是和自己抗争，这样你就会有种强烈的欲望，要扭曲事实来添油加醋地描述你的感觉。

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In America, like, people are free to dress up how they like and,

在美国，人们的穿着打扮非常自由，

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