《中英對照讀新聞》Beautiful people launch sperm and egg bank 「俊男美女」網站推出精卵銀行

◎陳成良

A controversial dating website which only allows beautiful members has launched an online sperm and egg bank for people desperate to have attractive children.

一個只招收容貌出色會員的爭議交友網站，已針對迫切想生下俊美子女的民眾，推出一項線上精子與卵子銀行服務。

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Beautifulpeople.com, which bans ugly or fat people from joining its ranks, has now launched a Beautiful Baby service, with the same stringent beauty requirements for donors.

謝絕醜陋或肥胖人士加入其行列的「俊男美女」網站，如今推出「漂亮寶寶」服務，對捐贈精卵者採取同樣嚴格的審美要求。

And they have even, grudgingly, allowed normal looking people to benefit from the service.

他們甚至是很勉強地才容許長相平凡的人，從這項服務中獲益。

Founder Robert Hintze said："Initially, we hesitated to widen the offering to non-beautiful people. But everyone - including ugly people - would like to bring good looking children in to the world and we can’t be selfish with our attractive gene pool."

創辦人羅伯．辛茲說：「起初，我們猶豫是否要放寬這項服務給不好看的人，但每個人，包括醜人，都想要把好看兒女帶到這個世界，我們不能對我們俊美的基因庫存有私心。」

The website, which claims to be a game reserve of "leopards and gazelles", compared with other dating sites it describes as "jungles of hippos and warthogs", recently culled 5000 members for gaining weight over Christmas.

該網站自詡是「獵豹與瞪羚」的動物保護區，相較之下，其他交友網站被它形容為「河馬與疣豬的叢林」。該網站最近才剔除5000名在耶誕期間體重增加的會員。

They claim 600 beautiful babies have been born to members who met through the site, and have now set up the beautiful DNA bank to accelerate the process.

他們宣稱，透過這個網站而相識的會員，已產下600名漂亮寶寶，如今以設立這個美麗DNA銀行來加速這個進程。

新聞辭典

desperate：形容詞，極想要的；渴望得到的。另外常見的意思是（在絕望中）不顧一切的。用法如：a desperate measure（孤注一擲的措施 ）。

stringent：形容詞，（規則等）嚴格的，嚴厲的；（貨幣等）緊縮的、銀根緊的。用法如：operating under a stringent time limit（在緊迫的時間內進行）。

grudgingly：副詞，勉強地；不情願地。He gave his permission grudgingly. （他勉強同意。）