英国工程师被错当摇滚歌星(图)

　　He's just a pretty good engineer - at least to his mates back in Britain.But in the frozen wastes of Siberia Neil Smith is a rock legend... even though he has only ever played in a pub band.

　　The bemused 52-year-old found himself judging a national beauty contest, being interviewed on TV, and even being introduced to Russian president Vladimir Putin.He was also mobbed by a horde of screaming girls demanding his autograph.

　　Neil, an electrical projects manager from Rotherham, Yorks, was working in the remote Siberian town of Sayanogorsk when he revealed to a local bar manager, through an interpreter, that he once played bass guitar for a local band called Rocco.He said: "Something got lost in translation. Next thing the Rolling Stones are being mentioned and I'm whisked off to judge the Miss Siberia beauty contest as a VIP guest.

　　"Suddenly I'm picked up in a limo, with crowds of girls and TV cameras and shaking hands with Mr Putin. It was too late to explain, so I just had to go along with it.My mates wouldn't believe me till they saw the pictures."

　　他仅仅是一个得体的优秀工程师——至少英国的同伴们这样看他。但是在天寒地冻的不毛之地-西伯利亚，尼尔·史密斯成为了一个摇滚传奇……即使他之前只是在一支酒吧乐队中演奏过。

　　这让52岁的他非常困惑，他发现自己为全国选美比赛担当评委，作为采访对象出现在电视上，甚至被介绍给俄罗斯总统普京，还被成群尖叫的美女们围堵着索要照片。

　　尼尔，只是一名来自(英国)约克郡罗泽哈姆的电力企业管理人员，他在遥远的西伯利亚萨扬诺戈尔斯克小镇工作时，曾通过翻译告诉当地一个酒吧经理：他曾经为当地一个叫“罗可”的乐队伴奏过贝司吉他。他说：“有些东西在翻译中漏掉了。我们后来还谈到了滚石，接下来我就作为特邀嘉宾担当西伯利亚小姐比赛的评委。”

　　“突然间，豪华轿车来接我，还有成群的女孩和摄像机，甚至还和普京握手。解释实在是太晚了，所以我只是在应付这一切。我的同伴也不会相信我，直到他们看到照片。”