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【在生活中學習語言】《中英對照讀新聞》Prisoners don heels for pageant囚犯穿高跟鞋參加選美

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《中英對照讀新聞》Prisoners don heels for pageant囚犯穿高跟鞋參加選美

羅彥傑

A 26-year-old woman serving time in a Brazilian prison for holding up trucks has been named her penitentiary’s beauty queen in a competition between convicts, authorities said.

因為攔路搶劫卡車而在巴西監獄服刑的一名26歲女孩,在囚犯競爭中脫穎而出,當選該間監獄的選美皇后,當局說。

Brunette Dione Normando Pires was named "Miss Talavera Bruce" in the Gericino women’s prison in western Rio de Janeiro , beating off competition from eight other convicts.

布魯內特.狄翁.諾曼多.皮瑞絲,榮膺位於里約熱內盧西部的傑瑞西諾市女子監獄的「塔拉維拉布 魯斯 小姐」,擊敗另外八名囚犯。

"Today I don’t feel like prisoner. This is the happiest moment of my life," Pires said as she accepted the red winner’s sash, which she put over her pink dress.

「今天,我不覺得自己像囚犯。這是我畢生中最快樂的時刻,」皮瑞絲在接受象徵奪冠的紅色肩帶時說。她把紅色肩帶掛在自己的粉紅色衣服上。

Runners-up were two drug traffickers, aged 20 and 24.

屈居其後的是兩名毒品走私犯,年齡分別是20歲與24歲。

The beauty contest was put on by 17 inmates of the prison. If not for poor-quality tattoos on the ankles of some contestants, lack of air conditioning and the presence of uniformed female guards around the doors, it would seem like a normal beauty pageant.

這次的選美比賽由監獄內的17名囚犯演出。如果不計較若干參賽者腳踝的劣質刺青,缺乏空調及穿制服的女獄警出現在門口,這看起來頗像是正常的選美大會。

新聞辭典

hold up:片語,攔路搶劫。例句:Several masked men held up a car.(數名蒙面人攔路劫車。)

beat off:片語,擊退。例句:A 75-year-old man beat off would-be attackers with his walking cane.(一名75歲男子用手杖擊退想要攻擊他的歹徒。)

put on:片語,演出。例句:They are putting on "Hamlet" next week.(他們下週將演出「哈姆雷特」劇。)

來源:自由時報

 

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