It is often said that money can't buy love.人们常说金钱买不来真爱。 But trying telling that to a wealthy Indian man who splashed out £14,000 on a solid gold shirt in the hope it will attract female attention.不过这位富有的印度男士显然不相信这种说法:他豪掷1.4万英镑打造了一件货真价实的黄金衣衫,希望可以吸引来异性的关注。 Money-lender Datta Phuge 32, from Pimpri-Chinchwad, commissioned the shirt which took a team of 15 goldsmiths two weeks to make working 16 hours a day creating and weaving the gold threads.现年32岁的达塔是一名放债人,来自印度城市宾布里-金杰沃德。他委托了一个由15名金匠组成的团队打造这件衬衫,这些匠人每天工作16小时,耗时两周编织金线,终于制作完成这件“金缕衣”。 It comes complete with its own matching cuffs and a set of rings crafted from left-over gold.此外,剩余的黄金还被打造成配套的腕饰以及戒指。 'I know I am not the best looking man in the world but surely no woman could fail to be dazzled by this shirt?' he explained. 达塔这样解释道:“我知道自己长得不好看,但我可以很自信的说,有哪个女人不会被这件衬衫闪到眼?” 'The gold shirt has been one of my dreams,' Mr Phuge told Indian newspaper the Pune Mirror.他对印度报纸《普那镜报》表示:“打造纯金衬衫一直是我的梦想。” 'It will be an [w]embellishment[/w] to my reputation as the ‘Gold man of Pimpri"' Mr Phuge said.他还说,作为“宾布里的黄金男人”,这件纯金衬衫将会为他的名声增光添彩。 The gaudy shirt was assembled on a fabric base of imported white velvet, and comes with six Swarovski crystal buttons and an [w]intricate[/w] belt, also made of gold.这件华丽的黄金衣的基布是进口白丝绒,上面镶嵌了六颗施华洛世奇的水晶纽扣,还搭配了一条用黄金制成的复杂颈带。 |
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