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進入《中英對照讀新聞》’Low pants, no chance’「穿垮褲，沒機會」
◎張沛元
A Baton Rouge Metro Council member wants the parish to support a public awareness campaign against men who wear their pants so low that their boxer shorts show. Councilwoman C. Denise Marcelle has a slogan for the campaign： "Low pants, no chance."
（美國路易斯安那州）巴頓魯奇市議會的一名成員，希望該郡能支持一項反對男性把褲子穿得低到露出四角褲頭的大眾意識運動。女市議員Ｃ．狄妮絲．馬榭爾還為該運動想好了口號：「穿垮褲，沒機會」。
"I hate to see it and I see so much of it in my district," Marcelle said. "It’s disrespectful to the elderly, to young kids and to women."
「我很討厭看到這種情況，但我在我的選區裡看到太多這種情況，」馬榭爾說。「這（穿垮褲）是不尊敬老幼婦孺的行為。」
Her resolution, on the agenda for discussion Wednesday, says wearing saggy pants creates negative stereotypes and that "those who wear saggy pants are hurting their chances of becoming employable, educated and productive citizens."
她所提出的議案週三進入討論程序，該議案內容宣稱，穿垮褲營造負面刻板印象，以及「那些穿垮褲的人損害他們成為適合被雇用、受過教育與具有生產力的公民的機會」。
Marcelle said she’d like to pass a law allowing police to cite and fine people for wearing saggy pants that expose their underwear, but recognizes that constitutional issues prevent such a law.
馬榭爾說，她希望通過一項法律，允許警察能引用及對穿垮褲並露出內褲的人開罰單，但也承認這種法律違憲無法過關。
A public-awareness campaign is the next-best thing to try to get these young men to hitch up their pants, she said.
她說，（推動）一項大眾意識運動是讓那些年輕男性把褲子往上拉的次佳解決之道。
新聞辭典
boxer shorts：名詞，四角褲。
saggy：形容詞，鬆垮的，下垂的。例句：Actor Michael Douglas says his "saggy ass" stopped him from making another Basic Instinct movie.（男星麥克道格拉斯說，他的「鬆垮屁屁」讓他無法接拍「第六感追緝令」續集。）
hitch up︰片語動詞，往上拉。例句：The boy hitched up his socks and pants.（那個男孩把襪子與褲子往上拉。）
