《中英對照讀新聞》UK man gave cocaine to trick-or-treaters by mistake 英國男子誤把古柯鹼給了「不給糖就搗蛋」的小孩

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Three primary school age children in one English city reaped more than the usual harvest of sweets and chocolates on Halloween when they emptied their trick-or-treat goody bags and found several bags of cocaine.

英國一座城市的3名唸小學年紀的小孩在萬聖節當天的收穫，遠比一般的糖果與巧克力還要多：他們清空他們的「不給糖就搗蛋」的禮物袋時，發現了幾包古柯鹼。

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On Monday, the man who had mistakenly handed out his cocaine stash to the children instead of candy was given a community service sentence in court, the Press Association reported.

英國聯合社報導，這名不小心把古柯鹼、而非糖果收藏分發給小孩的男子，週一被法院判處社區服務。

Apprentice panel-beater Donald Green fished in his pockets for a bag of chewy sweets to give to the youngsters at his door on Halloween, but instead pulled out a plastic pack containing eight bags of cocaine he had bought for 200 pounds earlier that day.

汽車鈑金學徒唐納德．葛林從口袋裡翻找出一袋軟糖，送給那些在萬聖節來到他門前的小孩，不過他掏出的卻是一個裡面裝有他當天稍早以200英鎊買來的8小包古柯鹼的塑膠袋。

He dropped the drugs into the goody bags carried by the three children, aged eight, six and five, who were out trick-or-treating escorted by their father, an off-duty policeman.

他把這些毒品投入3名分別8、6與5歲、由當時沒當班的員警父親陪伴出門玩「不給糖就搗蛋」的小孩所攜帶的禮物袋內。

The 23-year-old defendant then closed the door, went back inside the house and put his hand in his pockets to get out his drugs - but instead pulled out the sweets.（Reuters）

這名23歲的被告隨後關門回到屋內，把手伸入口袋想拿出毒品—結果掏出來的卻是糖果。（路透）

新聞辭典

by mistake：不小心地，錯誤地。同義詞，mistakenly。例句：I took the wrong turn by mistake. Now we are lost.（我不小心轉錯彎。現在我們迷路了。）

fish：動詞，觸摸，探索找物。例句：He fished in both pockets for a coin and found nothing at all．（他在兩個口袋裡摸索想找有沒有硬幣，結果啥也沒有。）

hand something out （to someone）：慣用語，把某物給某人；分發。例句： The teacher handed out the test papers to the students.（老師把考卷分發給學生。）