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進入中英對照讀新聞》Bikini baristas were bad for business. So a Seattle coffee kiosk switched to ‘hunky’ shirtless men.咖啡師穿比基尼有礙生意。於是一家西雅圖咖啡舖改推打赤膊的「壯」漢
◎張沛元
Two years ago, as he watched drive-through coffee shacks staffed by scantily clad “bikini baristas” pop up all over the Pacific Northwest, Ja’shaun Williams came up an idea for a business. It would be called “Bro-kini Espresso,” and shirtless men would be the ones donning revealing swimwear and slinging piping-hot drinks.
2年前，當傑尚．威廉斯看到工作人員是衣著單薄的「比基尼咖啡師」的得來速咖啡小舖，在（美國）太平洋西北岸如雨後筍般四處林立時，他突然想到一個做生意的好點子。那就是「哥基尼濃縮咖啡」，（但）穿著衣不蔽體的泳裝與販賣熱呼呼飲料的人，是打赤膊的男性。
As it turned out, someone beat him to it. But when Williams saw the help-wanted ad from a new Seattle coffee stand that needed men to steam milk and pour espresso shots while dressed in nothing more than tiny shorts and a bow tie, he decided to apply anyway. On Friday, he became one of the first two topless male baristas at Dreamboyz Espresso, whose tagline, "Hot Guys Serving Hot Coffee," aptly sums up its business strategy.
結果有人搶先他一步。但當威廉斯看到西雅圖一家新開的咖啡小舖的徵才廣告，徵求穿著緊身小短褲與打領結的男生，來幫牛奶加熱與倒濃縮咖啡時，他不管三七二十一決定應徵。他在週五成為「夢幻男孩濃縮咖啡」前2名上空男咖啡師之一，該店的理念是「火熱型男奉上熱咖啡」，恰如其分地總結該店的商業戰略。
【新聞辭典】
scantily：副詞。缺乏地，不充足地；吝嗇地；狹窄地。scantily clad：穿得很少，衣著暴露。例句：A female Taiwanese tourist has been fined 2,500 pesos for wearing a bikini in the Philippines’ Boracay Island, later described by one police officer as “literally a string”, after her scantily-clad photos went viral, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported.（「菲律賓詢問者日報」報導，在衣不蔽體的照片於網路上瘋傳後，1名在菲律賓薄荷島身著比基尼─稍後被一名警察形容「根本是一條線」─的台灣女觀光客，挨罰2500披索。）
beat （someone） to it：慣用語，某件事情在你要做之前已經先被其他人做了；捷足先登，搶先一步。例句：John wanted the last chicken leg, but his young brother beat him to it.（約翰想吃最後一隻雞腿，但被他弟弟捷足先登。）
sum up：慣用語，總結。
