He has spent £30,000 morphing himself into a human version of a Ken doll. And now, model Celso Santebanes has gone full circle by releasing a doll of his own.
他花了3萬英鎊把自己逐漸轉變成真人版肯尼娃娃。現在，模特兒塞索．桑提班斯推出自己的人偶娃娃，繞了一大圈又回到當初的起點。
The 20-year-old Brazilian, who ’behaves like a puppet’, has had four operations on his nose, chin and jaw - plus silicone implants in his chest - to look like Barbie’s boyfriend.
這名20歲的巴西人「行為舉止就像個玩偶」，他的鼻子、下巴、下顎做了4次手術，加上胸部植入矽膠，都是為了看起來像是芭比的男友。
’I went to the city to become a model......I dreamt of being a human puppet, but having one in my image was completely unexpected,’ he said.
「我來到這座城市希望成為一名模特兒…我夢想當個真人玩偶，但擁有一個以我為形象的玩偶，完全在我意料之外。」他說。
Celso started his transformation after winning a modelling contest at the age of 16.
塞索16歲那年贏得模特兒比賽後，開始他的轉型。
He changed his last name from Borges Pereira to Santebanes, the name of his favourite character on a Mexican TV show.
他把姓氏從原本的博裘斯．皮瑞拉改成桑提班斯，這是他最愛的墨西哥電視明星的姓氏。
Then saved and scrimped to afford each stage of his meticulous transformation.
然後他省吃儉用，把錢存下來支付精細轉型過程中每一階段的費用。
Last year, he was spotted by a talk show in his native Sao Paolo, Brazil, and he was catapulted to fame.
去年他被家鄉巴西聖保羅市的談話節目發現，便一炮而紅。
He charges up to £10,000 for a VIP appearance and revealed he is in talks with reality TV show producers.
現在他以特別來賓身分上節目的價碼是1次1萬英鎊，他也透露，正與電視實境秀節目製作人洽談合作事宜。
新聞辭典：
go full circle：動詞片語，事情繞了一大圈又回到原點。例句：After working in different industries in the past decade, you have gone full circle back to journalism.（經過10年來在不同行業工作，你又回到新聞業。）
scrimp：動詞，節省，削減，吝嗇。例句：My parents have to scrimp and save to pay for my college education.（我父母必須省吃儉用以支付我的大學教育費用。）
be catapulted to fame：動詞片語，快速出名。例句：The actor was catapulted to fame with his role in the TV show E.R..（這名演員憑藉他在電視劇「急診室的春天」裡的角色一躍成名。）
宏浩翻譯引用 http://iservice.ltn.com.tw/Service/english/english.php?engno=807461&day=2014-08-25
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