《中英對照讀新聞》
Canadian MP’s cleavage is mysteriously retouched 加拿大國會議員的乳溝被神秘地修掉
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She’s the first Canadian Tamil MP and the standard bearer for young women in a male dominated political culture.
她是首位加拿大塔米爾裔國會議員，在男性居多數的政治文化中，是年輕女性的指標人物。
But rising member of Parliament, Rathika Sitsabaiesan, 29, is at the centre of an embarrassing Photoshop controversy- after authorities apparently deemed her cleavage too hot to handle.
但在當局顯然認為這名新生代國會議員、29歲的拉提卡．席薩貝桑的乳溝辣得令人難以招架後，使她陷於難堪的修片爭議中。
According to political blog Contrarian, a reader performed a Google image search for Sitsabaiesan and came across the thumbnail of the young woman with a healthy amount of cleavage. But interestingly, when the reader clicked through to Sitsabaiesan’s official Parliamentary profile, he found the exact same picture … with the cleavage missing.
根據政論部落格「逆勢操作者」，一名讀者在Google上搜尋席薩貝桑的照片，看到這名年輕女子這張適度露出乳溝照片的縮圖。但有意思的是，當這名讀者點入連結席薩貝桑國會官網上的個人簡介時，發現同樣的照片…只是乳溝消失了。
This suggests that the photo was retouched to edit out her feminine curves.
這意味著，這張照片被修過，修掉了她的女性線條。
Canada’s conservative politicos apparently decided that the original photo was inappropriate for a workplace as formal as Parliament. But critics argue that the alteration was anti-feminist, and that that the cleavage was removed to make Sitsabaiesan appear less womanly.
加拿大保守派政治人物顯然認定，原本的照片不適合出現在像國會這麼正式的工作場合。但批評者認為，修片是反女性主義，修掉乳溝是要席薩貝桑看來比較沒有女人味。
新聞辭典：
standard bearer：名詞，某領域中的領導者、代表性人物或提倡者。例句：He is the standard bearer of civil rights.（他是民權運動領袖。）
cleavage：名詞，俚語，乳溝。例句：The guy just openly stared at your cleavage, which is kind of sexual harassment.（那傢伙就大剌剌地盯著你的乳溝瞧，這算性騷擾了。）
too hot to handle：俚語，難以處理的（情況），在此"hot"另有「性感、火辣」之意一語雙關。例句：The news about the president’s affair is considered too hot to handle by his staff.（幕僚認為有關總統婚外情的新聞，是很棘手的問題。）
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