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進入《中英對照讀新聞》UK pensioner's dodgy digital box sparks big search 英國退休老人的不可靠的數位盒引發大搜救
◎ 張沛元
Lifeboats and a helicopter scoured the sea to track down an electronic distress signal -- only for coastguards to discover it came from a British pensioner's faulty digital television box on dry land.
救生艇與直昇機搜索大海，以追蹤一個電子求救信號──結果海岸巡防隊發現，（信號）來自一名英國老人在陸地上故障的數位電視機上盒。
The coastguards were scrambled after a rescue coordination centre in Scotland picked up what it believed to be a distress signal coming from the sea off southern England.
海岸巡防隊在蘇格蘭的搜救統籌中心接收到他們相信是來自英格蘭南方外海的求救訊號後，緊急展開搜救行動。
But communications experts later traced the signal to the digital television set-top box in the home of 67-year-old Mary Donaldson in the western town of Plymouth.
但通訊專家稍後追蹤到，該信號來自西部城鎮普利茅斯67歲的瑪莉．唐諾森家裡的數位電視機上盒。
"We sent a helicopter out and two lifeboats before we discovered that the signal was in fact coming from inland," a spokesman for the coastguards said.
「我們派出一架直昇機與兩艘救生艇後才發現，該訊號其實來自陸地，」海岸巡防隊的一名發言人說。
Donaldson was at the cinema when the experts tracked down the signal. "We sent two officers there to investigate and they were still there when the lady came home," the spokesman said.
唐諾森在專家們追蹤到信號（所在位置）時人在電影院。「我們派遣當地兩名警官進行調查，他們在該名女士返家時還在那裡。」
新聞辭典
pensioner：名詞，領養老金的人；受雇者。pension當名詞使用時，意思為養老金，故pension加er等於「領養老金的人」，也就是老人。pension也可以當動詞，意為發給…養老金；當形容詞時意為養老金的。
dodgy：形容詞，狡猾的；躲避的；（英國口語）難搞的，冒險的，不可靠的。
distress：名詞，（精神上的）痛苦，悲傷；疼痛，不適；貧困；苦惱事；危難，困境。動詞，使痛苦；使筋疲力竭。例句：If the hurricane continues, the ship will be in distress by morning.（倘若颶風持續不停，這艘船到早上就危險了。）
