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The Great Model Train Robbery
火車模型搶劫案
In the heart of Gravesend, in Kent, England, a hedged lane runs alongside a retired Royal Air Force field,
在英格蘭肯特郡格雷芬德市中心，一條綠籬小巷與一個停用的皇家空軍基地并排，
now occupied by the Cascades Leisure Centre, a recreation facility with a gym and a pool.
現在由卡斯卡德休閑中心占據，這是一個帶有健身房和游泳池的娛樂設施。
Under a cloudy moon this past Valentine's Day, a van rolled into a mini-roundabout near the Leisure Centre, stopping opposite a row of brick homes.
就在今年情人節時，一輪明月被云朵遮擋，一輛面包車駛入休閑中心附近的一個小型環形交叉路口，停在一排磚房對面。
The van doors opened, and several shadows crept out, moving toward a high-tensile wire fence.
面包車的門打開了，幾個人影悄悄走出來，朝著一個拉伸度極強的鐵絲網走去。
Loosening one post and pressing the long strands down, they slipped over the fence into an expansive plowed field behind the recreation center.
他們把一根柱子弄松動，把長長的金屬線壓下去，翻過鐵絲網來到娛樂中心后面一片寬敞的耕地上。
They walked past tree branches and dead shrubs, their boots sinking into the damp soil.
他們走過樹枝和枯死的灌木，靴子陷進潮濕的土壤里。
After a few hundred meters, they turned right, where two parallel chain-link fences separated the farm from the center's grounds.
他們走了幾百米后右轉，兩個平行的鏈式柵欄把農場和娛樂中心區隔開。
They clipped both, climbed over a waist-high wood railing, and landed at their destination: a high-security shipping container.
他們把兩個柵欄都剪斷了，爬上齊腰高的木欄桿，到達他們的目的地：一個安全性能很高的集裝箱。
They carved a small rectangle into the back of the container and peeked through, looking for the bounty hidden inside.
他們在集裝箱的背面刻了一個小矩形，然后向里面偷看，尋找里面藏著的好東西。
They used angle grinders to slice the container's hinges,
他們用角磨機切割集裝箱的鉸鏈，
until its door swung backward, hanging only by the anvil-size lock that had been designed to resist this very kind of robbery.
直到它的門能向后擺動，鎖只有鐵砧大小，就靠它來抵御這種搶劫了。
Then they got into a second shipping container the same way.
然后，他們用同樣的方法進到第二個集裝箱里面。
Inside one of the containers, they cut the padlock off a cupboard door, and there she was: an exquisite steam-powered model locomotive named Mayflower,
他們在一個集裝箱里，切斷了櫥柜門上的掛鎖，他們要找的好物就在那里了：一輛精心制作的名為五月花的蒸汽動力機車模型，
her green boiler and brass engine bands glistening under the bandits' flashlights. They chopped into another cupboard housing a second locomotive.
它那綠色鍋爐和黃銅發動機帶箍在盜賊的手電筒下閃閃發光。他們砍開另一個裝著第二輛機車的柜子。
Discovering a key for a third shipping container, they popped its doors open and spotted two more choo-choos for the taking.
發現了第三個集裝箱的鑰匙，他們打開集裝箱的門，又發現了兩輛要拿走的火車。
