《中英對照》Chilean taxi driver combats crime with cows 智利計程車司機靠乳牛打擊犯罪

俞智敏

A Chilean taxi driver has come up with a new way to fight assaults： make your vehicle so conspicuous that nobody would dare try to rob you.

智利一名計程車司機想出對付攻擊的新辦法：把車子改裝得令人側目，讓人根本不敢來搶劫。

After being robbed several times, Juan Geraldo upholstered and covered every square inch of his car’s interior with black and white spotted cowhides, including the steering wheel and ceiling. He then decorated the interior with stuffed toy cows, and added a horn that moos.

在數度遭搶後，傑拉多把車子重新改裝，車內每一處空間都鋪上黑白斑點的乳牛皮，連方向盤和天花板也不放過。然後他在車裡放上幾隻乳牛布偶當裝飾，還加上一隻會發出牛叫聲的喇叭。

The visual effect is even more impressive at night, when the black and white taxi interior is set off from floor to ceiling by a flood of neon light.

晚上的視覺效果甚至更為驚人，此時這輛計程車黑白相間的內裝從地板到天花板都會被耀眼的霓虹燈打亮。

"The effect was immediate. They haven’t robbed me since," said Geraldo, who said the special effects also brought in more clientele and allowed him to expand his cab fleet from one car to nine.

「效果非常明顯。我從此沒再被人搶過，」傑羅多說，他表示車子改裝後的特殊效果還吸引了更多客人，讓他從原本的一輛車，擴增為有9部車的車隊。

"The numbers don’t lie, the cow cabs attract more clients," Geraldo said. "Today almost all of our business is with repeat customers."

「數字不會說謊，乳牛計程車吸引了更多顧客，」傑拉多說。「現在我們幾乎所有的生意都是靠老客戶光顧。」

新聞辭典

conspicuous：明顯的、引人注目的、出色的，如︰She’s always conspicuous because of her fashionable clothes.（她總是穿著入時，引人注目。）

upholster：替（沙發、椅子等）裝上墊子（或套子、彈簧等），亦可指裝潢、佈置房間，如︰All the chairs in the lounge are upholstered in black leather.（會客廳裡所有的椅子都裝上黑色皮面。）

clientele：顧客的總稱，如︰This jewelry store has a wealthy clientele.（這家珠寶店的顧客都是有錢人。）