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進入中英對照讀新聞》Deprived of work by COVID, prison escapee turns himself in after 30 years of beach life on the lam 因武肺失業的越獄犯在海灘逃亡人生30年後自首
2021年10月8日，澳洲新南威爾斯州即將解封前夕，雪梨邦迪海灘已湧現人潮。（歐新社）
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A 64-year-old fugitive walked into a Sydney police station to give himself up almost 30 years after he used a hacksaw blade and bolt cutters to escape from prison, police said on Wednesday.
警方週三表示，一名64歲、約30年前以鋼鋸刀片與大鐵鉗越獄的逃犯，走進雪梨一處警察局自首。
Darko Desic decided to go back to prison because Sydney’s COVID-19 lockdown made him jobless and homeless, media reported.
媒體報導，達科．迪西克決定重返監獄，因為雪梨的武漢肺炎封鎖措施讓他失業與無家可歸。
Sydney’s lockdown, which began in June, had cost Desic his cash-in-hand work as a laborer and handyman, unnamed police sources told Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph and Australian Broadcasting Corp.
不具名的警方消息人士告訴雪梨的每日電訊報與澳洲廣播公司，雪梨自6月起的封鎖措施，導致迪西克失去出賣勞力與打零工的領現金工作。
"He slept on the beach on Saturday night and said: ’Stuff it, I’ll go back to prison where there’s a roof over my head,’" a source told the newspaper. （AP）
一名消息人士告訴該報，「他週六晚間睡在沙灘上並說，『去他的，我要回到頭上有屋頂的監獄。』」（美聯社）
新聞辭典
deprive of：片語，剝奪、使喪失。例句：He was deprived of his political right to run for public office.（他被剝奪參選公職的政治權利。）
turn oneself in：片語，自首。
on the lam：片語，（尤指為躲避警方追緝而）在逃，逃亡。lam，名詞，急逃；畏罪潛逃。例句：The murderer was on the lam for several years before he was caught.（殺人犯逃亡多年後被逮。）
