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Transport for London has a lost property office, which collects the items left behind as people flow through the city’s transport system each day.
倫敦交通局設有失物招領處，負責收集人們每天通過倫敦交通系統時留下的物品。
It is the biggest lost property office in Europe, beaten globally only by Tokyo’s.
它是歐洲最大的失物招領處，在全球僅次于東京。
65 staffs sort through hundreds of thousands of lost and forgotten items each at the office, which is run by Paul Coan.
65名員工在保羅·科恩管理的辦公室里，對數十萬件遺失和遺忘的物品進行分類。
According to the latest data, Coan’s team dealt with over 300,000 items in the first quarter of the year.
根據最新數據，Coan的團隊在今年第一季度處理了30多萬件物品。
As the data reveals, very few are claimed.
正如數據所顯示的那樣，只有很少的人聲稱擁有主權。
For example, of the nearly 13,000 keys handed into the lost property last year, just under 1,400 were returned to their owners, says Coan.
科恩舉例說，在去年上交的近13000把鑰匙中，只有不到1400把歸還給了失主。
Overall, 20% of stock is claimed within three months.
總體而言，三個月內認領了20%。
After that time, stock becomes the property of transport for London.
在那之后，股票成為倫敦交通的財產。
And it’s not necessarily the items you had expect.
這并不一定是你所期望的。
A wander through the three basement floors that make up the lost property office gives us some idea of what we value enough to recover and what we’re happy to let go.
漫步于組成失物招領處的三層地下室，讓我們了解到哪些東西是我們珍視到可以追回來的，哪些是我們樂意放棄的。
Coan has discovered something interesting about the complexity of lost shoes.
Coan發現了關于丟失鞋子的復雜性的一些有趣的事情。
He said, if you have one shoe, you are more likely to go looking for the other.
他說，如果你有一只鞋，你更有可能去找另一只。
If you lose two shoes, well, it’s likely, out of sight, out of mind.
如果你丟了兩只鞋，很可能，眼不見，心不煩。
He guesses many people regard loss as an opportunity to treat themselves to something new.
他猜測，很多人把失去看作是一個機會，來對待自己的新東西。
