万花筒 2012-07-13&07-15 经济不景气 英国部分妇女高价卖头发

 Annette Moore’s long blonde hair has been her crowing glory for years. Now she’s decided¹ to get the lot chopped off. But she won’t be paying the salon² they’ll be paying her.

You’re looking at anything from about £60 upwards³, I would have to put a top on it of about £120.

With money tight and bills to pay， a number of British women are selling their hair to make some extra cash. And Annette’s natural blond locks are among the most sought-after.

Well I need the money really, I might use it for going abroad with friends in August or just keep it aside for the bills really.

It’s a multi-million dollar industry and it’s growing . Bloomsbury say they receive up to 40 envelopes of hair a week. Those that make the grade will either be made into a wig⁴ or sold as hair extensions. The late British singer Amy Winehouse once replied when asked if her hair was all her own “It’s mine because I bought it.” 

The majority of hair comes from China, India or Eastern Europe, but that’s changing. Bloomsbury Wigs⁵ run by Graham Wake, is one of a small number of so-called “hair harvesting salons”.

This is a new market for the UK, I would say that about 50 percent of our purchased hair is now within the UK and I would hope to say that within about a year we’ll be buying a 100 percent of our hair purely⁶ from UK.

Graham estimates he’ll spend £100,000 on hair this year. £120 of that will go to Annette， but it will be sold for considerably⁷ more after it’s been made into a wig or hair extensions.

The clients love to be able to come in, look at all this unprocessed hair and actually select the pony⁸ tails and they give us some time to obviously make them up into extensions. This will probably cost from about a £1,000 to about £1,300.

Annette’s certainly pleased with the extra cash and her new complimentary⁹ hair do. But if she wants to repeat the process，it may take up to five years until her hair grows back.

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 salon   

n.[法]沙龙；客厅；营业性的高级服务室

参考例句：

• Do you go to the hairdresser or beauty salon more than twice a week?你每周去美容院或美容沙龙多过两次吗？
• You can hear a lot of dirt at a salon.你在沙龙上会听到很多流言蜚语。

3 upwards   

adv.向上，在更高处...以上

参考例句：

• The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
• The smoke rose straight upwards.烟一直向上升。

4 wig   

n.假发

参考例句：

• The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
• He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。

5 wigs   

n.假发，法官帽( wig的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。 来自辞典例句
• Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克，因为我们需要更多的假发，而且我们还要做点广告。 来自电影对白

6 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

7 considerably   

adv.极大地；相当大地；在很大程度上

参考例句：

• The economic situation has changed considerably.经济形势已发生了相当大的变化。
• The gap has narrowed considerably.分歧大大缩小了。

8 pony   

adj.小型的；n.小马

参考例句：

• His father gave him a pony as a Christmas present.他父亲给了他一匹小马驹作为圣诞礼物。
• They made him pony up the money he owed.他们逼他还债。

9 complimentary   

adj.赠送的，免费的，赞美的，恭维的

参考例句：

• She made some highly complimentary remarks about their school.她对他们的学校给予高度的评价。
• The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.这家超市提供免费购物班车。