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進入中英對照讀新聞》An Arctic "miracle": Icebreaker salvages lost recordings of Beluga whales 北極「奇蹟」：破冰船救回遺失的白鯨錄音
美國康乃狄克州神秘水族館的白鯨與遊客互動。（法新社檔案照）
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A year-long recording of the high-pitched clicks made by Beluga whales has been salvaged from the Arctic after the crew of a Swedish icebreaker chanced upon a research buoy adrift in hazardous pack ice.
一艘瑞典破冰船偶遇在北極危險的浮冰群中漂流的研究浮標，救回1份歷時1年記錄著白鯨發出高頻滴達聲的錄音。
A team tracking the device from California said they had almost given it up for lost when a "miracle" run of events allowed the vessel, the Oden, to stage an impromptu rescue.
追蹤這項設備的加州團隊說，就在他們幾乎認為沒希望找回來之際，「奇蹟般」的一連串事件，讓這艘破冰船「歐登號」臨時展開救援行動。
"It’s great, amazing luck," said Josh Jones, a graduate student researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.
「真是太棒、太驚人的好運」，聖地牙哥斯克里普斯海洋研究所研究生喬許．瓊斯說。
Scripps began deploying the buoy for year-long stints on the seabed in the Barrow Strait in the Canadian Arctic in 2013. But two consecutive summers of heavy pack ice have prevented Jones and Randy Nungaq, a resident of Resolute Bay, from conducting their annual boat trip to maintain the buoy since 2017.
該研究所2013年在加拿大北極區巴羅海峽海床上放置這具浮標，開始為期1年的記錄。然而，2017年起連續兩個夏季出現大量浮冰，使瓊斯和堅毅灣居民蘭迪．努加格無法搭船出海維修浮標。
Jones said he monitored the buoy as it drifted loose for about 10 days, fearing all the while that massive ice sheets would crush the device like a "trash compactor." （Reuters）
瓊斯說，他監看約10天，眼見浮標漂走，一直擔心龐大的冰層會像「垃圾壓縮機」一樣壓碎它。（路透）
新聞辭典
chance upon：片語，碰巧遇到或發現（人或事）。例句：I chanced upon an old friend when I had dinner in that restaurant yesterday.（我昨天在那家餐廳吃晚餐時，碰巧遇到一位老朋友。）
a run of：片語，一連串（事物）。例如，a run of defeats（一連串的失敗）。
all the while：片語，（某事發生的）整段時間。例句：We walked home together, talking all the while.（我們一起走回家，一路上聊個不停。）
