A Ukrainian man who grew astonishingly long eyelashes after eating a particular type of food is bidding for a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
一名烏克蘭男子在吃了某種神秘食物後長出了驚人的長睫毛，並打算憑藉這對長睫毛申報吉尼斯紀錄（Guinness Book of Records）。
Valery Smagliy, 58, from Kiev, Ukraine is to have them officially measured before finally having them cut.
瓦萊裡·斯馬格利( Valery Smagliy )是一名來自烏克蘭（Ukraine）基輔（Kiev）的58歲男子，他打算在剪掉這對長睫毛之前正式測量一下它們的長度。
He said a change in diet to include a secret food coincided with the bizarre growth.
斯馬格利稱是飲食習慣的改變產生了這一變化，而其中的一種神秘食物正是造就這對驚人長睫毛的「功臣」。
However he declined to share what that food was.
但他拒絕透露這種神秘食物到底是什麼。
He told local media: "I started eating something and noticed that my eyelashes really started growing quickly at the same time.
他告訴當地媒體：「當我開始吃某種食物後，我的睫毛就開始長得非常快。」
"I'm thinking of marketing it so I'm not giving away the secret of what it is."
「我打算在市場上推銷這一食物，所以我不會透露它的真面目。」
He decided not to save his eyelashes immediately after discovering he got a lot of attention and praise from women, most of whom were jealous of his long, natural lashes. But he also got stopped by men asking him if he was crazy.
因為這對既自然又長的睫毛，瓦萊裡受到了極大的關注，女人因羨慕而連連稱讚，於是他當即決定不再留著這對長睫毛了。不過，男人也經常上前追問他是不是瘋了。
"Whether it's man or woman, most people don't seem to pay much attention when I'm talking to them because they're always looking at my eyelashes," he bemoaned.
「不管是男人還是女人，大多數人在我和他們說話的時候都心不在焉，因為他們都光看著我的長睫毛去了。」他嘆息地說。
"Women would stop me in the street and ask me what the secret was, they can see that they are real and not fake. But to be honest they are just heavy now and my eyelids are getting sore.
「有些女人會在街上攔著我，追問我長出這麼長的睫毛的秘訣是什麼，她們能看出來那是真的、不是假的。但說真的它們太重了，壓得我的眼皮生疼。」
"And it's also difficult to see properly with huge grey eyelashes in front of my eye."
「而且我很難看清楚眼前的東西，因為眼睛前總有一堆灰色的玩意兒擋住視線。」
He said he was heading to the local registry office of the Guinness Book of Records to have them officially measured, and reckoned he could probably make the European record - although probably not the world record.
他說他打算去當地的金氏世界紀錄申報辦公室正式量一量睫毛的長度，並坦承他可能還破不了世界紀錄，但破歐洲紀錄應該沒問題。
According to the world record book, the longest eyelash on record was measured at 6.99 cm (2.75 in) in 2007 on Stuart Muller's left upper lid in Florida, USA.
根據金氏世界紀錄，世界上最長的睫毛紀錄是6.99釐米，2007年由美國弗羅裡達州的斯圖爾特·穆勒（Stuart Muller）的左上眼皮創造。
He said: "I suppose I could go for the world record, but to be honest what's the point?
他說：「我想我可以去申請世界紀錄，但說實話，有啥意義？」
"I prefer to be able to see better and I plan to get them cut in a professional salon so I reckon they will still look pretty good afterwards."
「我寧可讓視線更清楚，因此打算去一家專業沙龍把睫毛剪了。所以我想剪了以後，它們看上去應該仍然非常不錯。」
Vocabulary
astonishingly：令人驚訝地
bizarre：古怪的
bemoan：抱怨
（譯者：梁倩SCNU 編輯：侯瑋萍）