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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Bald German loses fight for toupee funding德國禿髮男子爭取假髮補助敗訴
◎俞智敏
Bald men in Germany have no entitlement to state support for toupees, a court ruled recently.
德國法院最近判決，德國的禿頭男士們沒有權利要求政府補助他們的假髮費用。
Throwing out a legal challenge by a bald 46-year-old man, the court said the state was not discriminating against men even though health insurance covers the cost of wigs for women.
法院否決了一名四十六歲禿頭男士所提出的法律訴訟，並表示儘管女性的假髮費用獲得健保給付，但政府並未歧視男性。
“In contrast to women, the involuntary loss of hair among men is common and accepted as nothing out of the ordinary,” the court ruled, rejecting the suit from the man who said he suffered because of his baldness.
「與女性相反，男性非自願性的掉髮現象相當普遍，而且已被視為稀鬆平常，」法院判決書中指出，駁回了該名男子提出他因禿髮而蒙受痛苦的告訴。
He filed the suit when the state health insurance system refused his claim for a 440 euro ($530) toupee.
該男子提出告訴，因為政府健保系統拒絕給付他所提出價值四百四十歐元（五百三十美元）的假髮費用。
“The state health insurance only has to pay for hair replacement when a bald head disfigures a person so severely that they would be ostracized from public life,” the court added. “That is not the case with men.”
「只有在禿髮造成顏面嚴重傷殘，可能導致患者遭大眾排斥的情況下，政府健保系統才會給付植髮費用，」法院補充說。「但該名男子的情況並非如此。」
新聞辭典
toupee：用來遮掩禿髮部位的假髮。
entitlement：動詞為entitle，指取名為或給予權利，如this ticket entitles the bearer to free admission（持此票者可免費入場），be entitled to 指有…的權利或資格，如Every citizen is entitled to equal protection under the law.（每位公民依法都有權獲得同等保護）。
throw out：動詞片語，在此文中指被否決，如 The committee threw out her proposal.（委員會否決了她的提議）。亦可指投出、攆出等。
discriminate：區別、辨別、表示差別，如discriminate hundreds of colors（辨別數百種顏色），discriminate against指加以歧視、冷淡對待，如discriminate against a certain nationality（歧視某一國籍者），discriminate in favor of則指特別優遇，如discriminate in favor of your friends（對你的朋友特別優待）。
