Doting father who spent ￡20000 on daughter’s birthday party declared bankrupt 花2萬英鎊辦女兒生日趴 溺愛女兒老爹破產
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A devoted father who spent a fortune showering his daughter with expensive luxury gifts and even bankrolled her dream to become a beauty queen is facing a possible jail sentence after the collapse of his business empire.
一名深愛子女的父親，花大錢買大批昂貴的奢華禮物給女兒，甚至出錢滿足她當選美皇后的夢想，現在這名父親因為他的商業帝國崩盤可能面臨牢獄之災。
Harbinder Panesar and his daughter Anysha made headlines in 2009 when the Moulin Rouge-themed party he threw her featured on MTV reality show My Super Sweet 16 - even thought it was actually her 15th birthday.
哈賓德．潘尼薩和他的女兒艾妮莎，2009年為女兒辦紅磨坊主題生日派對，成為MTV頻道「我的甜蜜16歲」實境秀主角而登上頭條，儘管當時其實是她的15歲生日。
The ￡20000 budget included a helicopter to ferry Anysha to the party, a performance by Tulisa from N-Dubz and a special video message from Hollywood star Nicole Kidman.
這筆2萬英鎊開支包括以直升機接艾妮莎到派對會場，請嘻哈團體N-Dubz的涂麗莎表演，還有特別請到好萊塢明星妮可．基嫚錄製一段談話。
The 45-year-old told MTV at the time： ’If any parents are going to have a Super Sweet 16 party I would suggest that they have very long pockets and very long arms to reach in to those pockets.’
這名45歲父親當時向MTV說：「若有父母打算辦場甜蜜16歲派對，我會建議他們口袋要夠深、還要非常肯花錢。」
But now, less than three years later, Panesar has been declared bankrupt and a court has frozen his assets. He faces losing the family’s￡500000 house in the Vale of Glamorgan and a spell behind bars after breaching a court order banning him from selling car insurance.
但是，不到3年後，潘尼薩如今已被宣布破產，資產遭法院凍結。他因違反法院禁止他銷售汽車保險的命令，現在面臨失去他們家位於格拉摩根山谷價值50萬英鎊的住宅，以及一場牢獄之災。
新聞辭典：
dote：動詞，溺愛。例句：The father dotes on his only daughter too much.（這個父親過分溺愛他的獨生女。）
spend a fortune：動詞片語，花大錢。例句：They spend a fortune on their luxury wedding party.（他們花大錢辦豪華婚宴派對。）
long/deep pockets, long arms：俚語，很有錢，也很捨得花錢；long/deep pockets, short arms：有錢但捨不得花，有小氣之意。shallow pockets：沒什麼財富。例句：That rich guy has very deep pockets but very short arms.（那個有錢傢伙很有錢，但是很小氣。）
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