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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Painting left at thrift store turns out to be French Impressionist work捐給舊貨店的畫作居然是法國印象派畫家的作品
◎張沛元
An old painting dropped off at a rural thrift store turned out to be a work by a French Impressionist. And now, thanks to the sharp eye of a store employee, the charitable organization is $40,000 richer.
一幅捐贈給一家鄉間廉價舊貨店的舊畫，居然是一位法國印象派畫家的作品。而今，拜該舊貨店一名雇員的銳眼之賜，這家慈善機構賺進4萬美元。
The Parisian street scene, left at a Goodwill thrift store in Maryland in March along with daily donations of pots, pans, old clock radios and other items, turned out to be a work by Edouard-Leon Cortes, probably from the early 20th century.
這幅描繪巴黎街景的畫作，今年3月間跟其他鍋、罐、老舊時鐘收音機等日常捐贈品一起送給馬里蘭州的一家善意廉價舊貨店，結果這幅畫居然是愛德華－里昂．柯爾特斯的作品，年代可能是20世紀初。
The painting - called "Marche aux fleurs" or "Flower Market" - was sold for $40,600 at a Sotheby’s auction a few weeks ago.
數週前，這幅名為「花市」的畫作在蘇富比拍賣會上以4萬0600美元售出。
"It could have very easily ended up put in a pile, marked for $20," says Ursula Villar, marketing and development director for Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc.
「這幅畫原本很可能淪落到一堆舊物裡，標價20美元，」奇薩比克公司的善意工業行銷與開發部主任烏蘇拉．維勒說。
Store manager Terri Tonelli said employees asked her to look at the donated painting because they suspected it was valuable. She found the artist’s name on Google and discovered that Cortes was a notable French Impressionist whose work had sold at auction for prices near $60,000.
店經理泰蕊．托尼利說，工作人員要求她看看那幅捐贈的畫作，因為他們懷疑那幅畫價值不菲。她在Google上找到畫家的大名，發現柯爾特斯是一位知名的法國印象派畫家，其作品在拍賣場的價格將近6萬美元。
新聞辭典
thrift：節約，節儉。thrift shop/store ，指接受捐贈不用的物品，整修後再賣出，所得用於福利事業的舊貨店。
turn out to be：最後是，原來是，最後證明是。例句：The old man coming on to her turned out to be her new boss.（那個對她獻殷勤的老頭結果居然是她的新上司。）
valuable：形容詞，有價值的。類似字彙，invaluable，形容詞，無價的，價值高到無法衡量的；valueless，形容詞，沒有價值的。例句：Parents’ love to their children is invaluable.（父母對子女的愛是無價的。）
