Ind. man, 72, shaves shaggy eyebrows for charity 印地安納州72歲男子為慈善剃掉濃眉

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A 72-year-old man with eyebrows so long he brushed them each morning raised $1,600 for charity from people who paid to take turns trimming his out-of-control brows.

一名眉毛長到得每天早上梳理的72歲男子，從願意付錢輪流修剪他眉毛的人潮中，募得1600美元的善款。

Some of the wiry hairs shorn from Si Burgher’s shaggy eyebrows measured more than three inches long because the former jeweler’s brows had never been trimmed.

西．伯格部分被修剪下來的粗濃眉毛長逾3英寸，因為這名前珠寶商的眉毛從來沒有被修剪過。

Burgher’s eyebrows were so long he used to brush them before leaving the house. But he agreed to have the overgrown brows tamed last week by members of the Bloomfield Rotary Club to raise money for a polio eradication campaign.

伯格的眉毛長到他出門前總是得先梳過。但他上週同意讓布魯姆扶輪社的成員修剪這些生長過盛的眉毛，以便為一項根除小兒麻痺的活動籌款。

Burgher barely winced as his wife, Amy, got the first whack at the overgrown hairs.

當伯格的妻子艾美率先修剪那些生長過盛的毛髮時，伯格幾乎沒有退縮。

"I don’t care if they ever grow back," he told The Herald-Times of Bloomington. "My wife says I look 20 years younger."

「我不在乎它們（眉毛）會不會再長回來，」他告訴布魯明頓前鋒時報。「我老婆說我看起來年輕了20歲。」

Burgher’s wife said she likes his new look. "Beneath the eyebrows is a really handsome man," she said. "He looks like a normal person."

伯格的老婆說她喜歡他的新造型。「（藏）在那些眉毛底下的是個大帥哥，」她說。「他看起來像是個正常人了。」

新聞辭典

take turns：輪流。turn，名詞，輪流時各自的一次機會。例句：We take turns on the night shift, and your turn will be tomorrow.（我們輪流上夜班，明天輪到你。）

eyebrow： 名詞，眉毛。其他eye-字彙還有，eyelashes，眼睫毛；eyelid，眼瞼。例句：Never apply mascara to your eyelashes if you have very sensitive eyes.（如果你的眼睛很敏感，絕對不要擦睫毛膏。）

trim：動詞，修剪。