Fruit fashion 用芒果核做衣服

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Fruit fashion 用芒果核做衣服

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How many mango seeds did Jess use to make her dress?

文字稿

Hi, I'm Jess Collins and I'm from North Queensland in Australia, and I've made a dress out of Calypso mango seeds.

大家好，我是杰斯·柯林斯，来自澳大利亚昆士兰北部，我用卡利普索芒果核做了一件连衣裙。

[TEXT ON SCREEN: Jess is 18 and grew up on a mango farm. She is frustrated that so much edible fruit goes to waste. 杰斯18岁，在芒果农场长大。这么多能吃的水果都浪费了，让她觉得很懊恼。]

Over 5,000 kilos of mangos each year that we just have to dump because they're not up to supermarket standards.

每年有超过5000公斤的芒果被我们丢弃，因为它们的质量没有达到超市的标准。

[A school design project gave Jess the idea to turn wasted mangoes into fashion. 学校的一个设计项目让杰斯产生了把丢弃的芒果变成时尚的想法。]

I cut all the flesh off and then I took it over to Dad's pressure cleaner, and then I would get the rest of it so no bugs or insects would try and eat the fruit because there was nothing left on it. And then we dried them out, cut them in half and then I sewed them on.

我把果肉都切下来，用爸爸的高压清洗器冲洗芒果核，把果肉都清理干净，这样就不会有虫子来吃了，因为芒果核上什么也没有了。接着，把它们晒干，切成两半，再把它们缝到布上。

So, I used approximately around 1,400 of them – so there was just a couple! I took over the kitchen and pretty much the whole living room as well with just mango seeds and material. It was just everywhere.

我用了大约1400个芒果核，其实不多，就几个。家里的厨房和客厅都被我占用了，堆满了芒果核和布料。真的到处都是。

I did it for between three and four months. I was actually called ‘crazy’, but I think they were very surprised that I did end up getting it done. I had a vision in my head and I guess I just grabbed that and ran with it. But once it was all together and finished and I saw it out in the mango paddock, I was very happy with my work.

我用了3个多月的时间制作这条连衣裙。在此期间，我甚至被人称为疯子，但我觉得他们没想到我最终能完成这件事。我脑海中有一个愿景，我就按照它开始了这个构想。制作完成后，我穿着这件裙子站在芒果园中时，我对自己的劳动成果还是非常满意的。

[Jess wore the dress to her high school graduation dinner. 杰斯穿着这条连衣裙参加了她的高中毕业典礼晚宴。]

I would love to tell the consumer and also the supermarkets like, there is perfectly fine fruit and we're just throwing it out because it doesn't meet, you know, the standards of the market. And that it's edible, it's still completely edible and that it can be bought and eaten and enjoyed by everyone.

我很想告诉消费者和超市，这些水果完全没有问题，但我们把它们扔掉，只是因为它们不符合市场的标准。它们是完全可以食用的，每个人都可以去购买、吃到并享受芒果的果香。

词汇

standards 标准

sewed 缝制

vision 愿景，憧憬

ran with it 对某想法开始付诸实践

问题答案

Jess used approximately 1,400 mango seeds to make her dress.