《中英對照讀新聞》Man kills prostitute because he turned out to be man男子殺妓 只因他竟是男兒身

◎ 張其賢

A man gunned down a prostitute when he discovered that he had hired a cross-dressing man for sex.

一名男子射殺一名娼妓，當他發現自己召了一名變裝男子尋歡。

Brandon L. King, 21, was wearing a green jacket with a fur collar, trousers, a black bra and pink panties when he was shot and killed. The suspect, Terron Oates, initially told police he and King had been in King's vehicle when they were robbed by a gunman who shot through one of the windows.The story did not match what other witnesses told investigators.

當21歲的布蘭登．L．金恩遭槍擊身亡時，他身穿一件皮毛領的綠夾克、長褲、黑色胸罩和粉紅色內褲。嫌犯泰倫．歐提斯一開始告訴警方，當一名槍手搶劫他和金恩、並開槍射穿一扇車車窗時，他和金恩正在金恩的車子裡。他的說法和其他目擊者告訴偵辦人員的說法有出入。

Oates, 18, later confessed, saying he became angry after learning that King was a man, police said. Witnesses told police that Oates tried to flee but could not get his van started. He was arrested at the scene, police said.

18歲的歐提斯後來招認，表示他在得知金恩是個男人之後勃然大怒，警方說。目擊者向警方表示，歐提斯試圖逃走，可是無法發動他的廂型車。他在命案現場被逮捕，警方說。

King's parents, Ervin and Andrea Ransom, said their son began dressing in women's clothes and calling himself Alexis soon after dropping out of high school. "I told him to be careful," Andrea Ransom said.

金恩的父母厄溫．藍森和安芮亞．藍森表示，他們的兒子從高中輟學後不久，便開始穿女人的衣服，並且給自己取名叫亞列西絲。「我告訴過他要小心」，安芮亞說。

King had been arrested before on prostitute charges, according to court records. "If you want to be a lady, then act like one," Ransom said she told her son. "Real women don't do what you do."

根據法院紀錄，金恩過去曾因賣淫被捕。「如果你想當個淑女，行為舉止就要像個淑女」，藍森說她曾這樣告訴她的兒子。「真正的女人不會做你所做的這些事情。」

新聞辭典

cross-dress︰動詞，變裝（穿著異性服裝）。本字中的cross指跨性別，cross-dresser指變裝者。例句︰In this play, single-sex performers cross-dress in order to play the roles of the opposite sex.（在這齣戲裡，單一性別的表演者變裝，以扮演異性角色。）

drop out of school︰動詞片語，從學校中輟。